exercises

Question 6.1

Determine if the following functions \(T{:}\ \mathbb R^2 \rightarrow \mathbb R^2\) are one-to-one and/or onto.

  • (a) \(T(x,y) = (2x,y)\)
  • (b) \(T(x,y) = (x^2,y)\)
  • (c) \(T(x,y) = (\sqrt[3]{x},\sqrt[3]{y})\)
  • (d) \(T(x,y) = (\sin x, \cos y)\)

Question 6.2

Determine if the following functions \(T{:}\ \mathbb R^2 \rightarrow \mathbb R^2\) are one-to-one and/or onto.

  • (a) \(T(x,y,z) = (2x+y+3z,3y-4z,5x)\)
  • (b) \(T(x,y,z) = (y \sin x, z \cos y, xy)\)
  • (c) \(T(x,y,z) = (xy, yz, xz)\)
  • (d) \(T(x,y,z) = (e^x, e^y, e^z)\)

Question 6.3

Let \(D\) be a square with vertices \((0,0),(1,1),(2,0),(1,-1)\) and \(D^*\) be a parallelogram with vertices \((0,0),(1,2),(2,1),(1,-1)\). Find a linear map \(T\) taking \(D^*\) onto \(D\).

Question 6.4

Let \(D\) be a parallelogram with vertices \((0,0),(-1,3),(-2,0),(-1,-3)\). Let \(D^* = [0,1] \times [0,1]\). Find a linear map \(T\) such that \(T(D^*)=D\).

Question 6.5

Let \(S^* = (0,1] \times [0, 2 \pi)\) and define \(T (r, \theta) = ( r \cos \theta, r \sin \theta)\). Determine the image set \(S\). Show that \(T\) is one-to-one on \(S^*\).

Question 6.6

Define \[ T ( x^* , y^*) = \left( \frac{x^* - y^*}{\sqrt{2}}, \frac{x^* + y^*}{\sqrt{2}} \right). \] Show that \(T\) rotates the unit square, \(D^* = [0,1] \times [0,1]\).

Question 6.7

Let \(D^* = [0,1] \times [0,1]\) and define \(T\) on \(D^*\) by \(T (u, v) = ( - u^2 + 4u,v)\). Find the image \(D\). Is \(T\) one-to-one?

Question 6.8

Let \(D^*\) be the parallelogram bounded by the lines \(y = 3x - 4, y = 3x, y = {\textstyle \frac{1}{2}}x\), and \(y= {\textstyle \frac{1}{2}} (x+4)\). Let \(D = [0,1] \times [0,1]\). Find a \(T\) such that \(D\) is the image of \(D^*\) under \(T\).

Question 6.9

Let \(D^* = [0,1] \times [0,1]\) and define \(T\) on \(D^*\) by \(T (x^*, y^*) = (x^*y^*, x^*)\). Determine the image set \(D\). Is \(T\) one-to-one? If not, can we eliminate some subset of \(D^*\) so that on the remainder \(T\) is one-to-one?

Question 6.10

Let \(D^*\) be the parallelogram with vertices at \((-1,3), (0,0), (2,-1)\), and \((1,2)\), and \(D\) be the rectangle \(D= [0,1] \times [0,1]\). Find a \(T\) such that \(D\) is the image set of \(D^*\) under \(T\).

Question 6.11

Let \(T \colon\, {\mathbb R}^3 \to {\mathbb R}^3\) be the spherical coordinate mapping defined by \((\rho, \phi, \theta) \mapsto (x,y,z)\), where \[ x = \rho \sin \phi \cos \theta, y = \rho \sin \phi \sin \theta, z = \rho \cos \phi. \]

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Let \(D^*\) be the set of points \((\rho, \phi, \theta)\) such that \(\phi \in [0, \pi], \theta \in [0, 2 \pi], \rho \in [0,1]\). Find \(D = T ( D^*)\). Is \(T\) one-to-one? If not, can we eliminate some subset of \(D^*\) so that, on the remainder, \(T\) will be one-to-one?

In Exercises 12 and 13, let \(T ( {\bf x}) = A {\bf x}\), where A is a \(2 \times 2\) matrix.

Question 6.12

Show that \(T\) is one-to-one if and only if the determinant of \(A\) is not zero.

Question 6.13

Show that det \(A \ne 0\) if and only if \(T\) is onto.

Question 6.14

Suppose \(T \colon\, {\mathbb R}^2 \to {\mathbb R}^2\) is linear and is given by \(T ({\bf x}) = A {\bf x}\), where \(A\) is a \(2 \times 2\) matrix. Show that if det \(A \ne 0\), then \(T\) takes parallelograms onto parallelograms. [HINT: The general parallelogram in \({\mathbb R}^2\) can be described by the set of points \({\bf q} = {\bf p} + \lambda {\bf v}+ \mu {\bf w}\) for \(\lambda, \mu \in (0,1)\) where \({\bf p}, {\bf v}, {\bf w}\) are vectors in \({\mathbb R}^2\) with \({\bf v}\) not a scalar multiple of \({\bf w}\).]

Question 6.15

A map \(T: \mathbb R^2 \rightarrow \mathbb R^2\) is called affine if \(T(\bf{x}) = A\bf{x} + \bf{v},\) where \(A\) is a \(2 \times 2\) matrix, and \(\bf{v}\) is a fixed vector in \(\mathbb R^2\). Show that Exercises 12, 13, and 14 hold for \(T\).

Question 6.16

Suppose \(T \colon\, {\mathbb R}^2 \to {\mathbb R}^2\) is as in Exercise 14 and that \(T ( P^*) = P\) is a parallelogram. Show that \(P^*\) is a parallelogram.

Question 6.17

Show that \(T\) is not one-to-one.