Eigen Values — Study Resources & PYQs
Determination and properties of eigen values of matrices.
- Estimated study time: 60 minutes
Study resources
- GeeksforGeeks – Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors (Article) — Definition, how to compute eigenvalues/eigenvectors from the characteristic equation, and key properties of eigenvalues.
- NPTEL (IIT Roorkee) – Matrix Analysis with Applications (Article) — Full IIT course on rank, eigenvalues/eigenvectors, similarity transformations, diagonalisation and Jordan form. Deep dive for Unit II matrices.
- Introductory Quantum Mechanics - IIT Kanpur (Article) — Covers wave function, operators and eigenvalue problems at an introductory level, pitched at exactly this syllabus.
- Quantum Mechanics I - Prof. S. Lakshmi Bala, IIT Madras (Article) — The early lectures cover eigenvalues, expectation values and the uncertainty principle.
- MIT OpenCourseWare — Multivariable Calculus (Article) — MIT multivariable-calculus materials covering partial derivatives, homogeneous-function ideas, Taylor expansions, extrema and Lagrange multipliers.
- MIT OpenCourseWare — Linear Algebra (Article) — MIT linear-algebra materials covering matrices, rank, elementary operations, eigenvalues/eigenvectors, Cayley-Hamilton-related concepts and diagonalization.
Taught in these subjects
- ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS-I — BMAT11 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- APPLIED ENGINEERING PHYSICS — BPHT11 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Engineering Mathematics-I — BST1101 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu