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sebadillab0
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2022-07-07
Lets say, there is a transformation: transforming a vector in to . Now the transformation matrix,
The basis vectors of are which are all non standard vectors and similarly My question is, in the absence of the basis vectors being standard vectors what is the procedure of finding
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Elianna Wilkinson
Beginner2022-07-08Added 11 answers
use the example in your comment: , with respect to the bases
and
This transformation takes as input a column vector
representing the linear combination of basis vectors in and produces as output the product
The entries and are then to be interpreted as coefficients of the vectors and in :
If you want to know what this looks like in terms of the standard basis , just multiply out: Note that this is exactly what you get from the product
where is a change-of-basis matrix: it translates a representation in terms of into one in terms of the standard basis. It’s easy to construct this change-of-basis matrix: its columns are just the representations of and in terms of the standard basis. It follows that if you start with v, representing a vector in in terms of the basis , and multiply it by the matrix
you get expressed in terms of the standard basis for . Perhaps, though, you want to be able to input in terms of the standard basis for . Then you need another change-of-basis matrix, this time to convert from the standard basis for to the basis We already know how to go the other way: to transform from a representation in terms of to one standard coordinates, multiply by the matrix
whose columns are the representations of and in terms of the standard basis. (In other words, do exactly what we did to get .) If you take the vector represented by the matrix
in terms of the basis , you can find its representation in terms of the standard basis by multiplying by to get
Unfortunately, this isn’t quite what we need: we want to start with a vector in standard coordinates and convert it to one in coordinates so that we can multiply by and get in standard coordinates. That requires changing base from standard to ; multiplying by goes in the opposite direction, from coordinates to standard ones. As you might expect, the matrix that does the change of basis in the other direction is , which I’ll let you compute for yourself. Once you have it, you can express in terms of a matrix multiplication that involves standard coordinates on both ends:
gives in standard coordinates if is expressed in standard coordinates.