Noodles141
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Ok this concept isn't sticking for me and i can only apply it to very simple problems. The question asked is "what is the image of the circle x^2+y^2=1 under the linear map represented by the matrix (a 0,0 b)?" <----{a 0 is the top layer of the matrix and 0 b is the bottom layer}.
i get that its a scale by a and b but not to sure why just something i know. What i did was take the function as being represented as f(x,y) and and used matrix multiplication to get f(ax,by) then applied it to the formula and got a^2.x^2 + b^2.y^2=1. I'm very confused by this cause i thought we were scaling it by a factor of a and b and this is doing the opposite of what i thought it would be and i don't believe my answer is right or either i'm missing something out and my radius for my answer (that being 1) is incorrect. Would appreciate a little help and thank you in advance for taking the time to read this
i get that its a scale by a and b but not to sure why just something i know. What i did was take the function as being represented as f(x,y) and and used matrix multiplication to get f(ax,by) then applied it to the formula and got a^2.x^2 + b^2.y^2=1. I'm very confused by this cause i thought we were scaling it by a factor of a and b and this is doing the opposite of what i thought it would be and i don't believe my answer is right or either i'm missing something out and my radius for my answer (that being 1) is incorrect. Would appreciate a little help and thank you in advance for taking the time to read this