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robertjford80
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Homework Statement
I'm enormously frustrated with these problems. I've been trying to figure out how to find out what the transition matrix between C and B is for about 2 hours and I still can't get it. I've watched 4 youtube videos and read two websites as well as the section in my textbook. I still can't get it. Anyway, this one video on youtube said that to get the transition matrix between these two matrices
[1 -1 0] [-1 1 0]
[0 0 1] [1 2 1]
[1 0 2] [0 -1 0]
you just put them together in a 3 by 6 matrix and reduce it to reduced row echelon form and the 3 by 3 matrix on the right is your transition matrix in this case
[-2 -5 -2]
[-1 -6 -2]
[1 2 1]
Well that method doesn't work for the problems I'm working on. Number 17 and 21. (I can get 19)
The Attempt at a Solution
Using this calculator (if I calculated everything by hand I would have wasted 5 hours already)
http://www.math.odu.edu/~bogacki/cgi-bin/lat.cgi?c=roc
I get
[5 4 6]
[4 3 4]
[-2 -2 3]
the book says the answer is
[-7 -6 12]
[6 5 -10]
[-4 -4 7]
I can't get the right answer for 17 either but we'll just worry about 21 for now.