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Examples Of Linear Transformations. Let V R2 and let W R. Linear transformations as matrix vector products. Matrix vector products as linear transformations. The transformation defines a map from R3 ℝ 3 to R3 ℝ 3.
Examples of Linear Transformations A linear transformation can take many forms depending on the vector space in question. This is why we study matrices. ExampleMore non-linear transformations When deciding whether a transformation T is linear generally the first thing to do is to check whether T 0 0. If T is any linear transformation which maps Rn to Rm there is always an m n matrix A with the property that Tx Ax for all x Rn. It turns out that this is always the case for linear transformations. If not T is automatically not linear.
The first is not a linear transformation and the second one is.
Note however that the non-linear transformations T 1 and T 2 of the above example do take the zero vector to the zero vector. When I was in finance I would use linear transformations to map each security I might own to a set of risk-factor loadings. Consider the vector space R n x mathbbR_le nx R n x of polynomials of degree at most n n n. Two important examples of linear transformations are the zero transformation and identity transformation. The zero transformation defined by Tx 0 for all x is an example of a linear transformation. Example-Suppose we have a linear transformation T taking V to W.