Good god, I wish I found this 8 weeks ago. The drop date for classes is the 30th. I ended up with 6% on my first midterm in Mathematical Physics. This class will haunt till the day I die. I'll probably know this material better than any of the classes I've taken, as I'll likely obsess over it for months.
I'm confused on the orthonormal part. There are 2 conditions for orthonormal vectors: (1) orthogonal; and (2) the length is 1. But the example on 2:56, the length is not 1 that negate the conditions of being an orthonormal. Can you please elaborate that part? Thanks
@@wealthy_concept1313 Any set of vectors can be "normalized" (meaning to make the lengths of all of the vectors 1). This does not, at all, change the angles between any of the vectors. The Gram-Schmidt Process (the next video in the playlist) shows us that any _linearly independent_ set of vectors can be made orthogonal without changing the span of the set. Taken together, given any basis, we can always find an orthonormal basis by first using the Gram-Schmidt process to make the basis orthogonal without changing its span, and then we can "normalize" the orthogonal set to make it orthonormal.
Hello Professor and Thanks for your great explanations. I was wondering why do not we have something called orthonormal matrices ?? and think orthogonal matrices are more like orthonormal ones!! :))
This series is the easiest way to understand linear algebra. College professors get paid to teach this but they can't explain jack sh*t. Seriously this holds up today too.
Good video. One question: If a square matrix has orthogonal column vectors. its inverse is not equal to its transpose. what should we call this type of matrices?
your convention for magnitude of a vector is a bit confusing because the single bar on both sides is usually for absolute value, maybe you should've used double bars for it anyways, i learned a lot, thanks!
Absolute value and magnitude of a vector have so much in common, they might as well use the same notation. I thought the double bars on both sides was completely unnecessary, when I was first introduced to the notation, after having become accustomed to just using the single pair of bars.
"ορθό-ς" is used for other cases too; the one you say is one definition, but the one required for the concept of the video is "vertical"(an example is the mathematical expression "ορθή γωνία"="right angle")
@@georgesimos4914 Even though I know that 3 out of 4 of the letters have completely different pronunciations, I instinctively read "ορθή" as "open". Even though I know it would sound more like "orthi".
Elaborate to some extent, I mean your beginning and laying down the foundation of the topic is good but should stretch it till good level. Atleast that's what I feel missing in your videos, do please consider this if you see this comment. By the way I love your videos from quantum numbers to biomolecules all are awesome.
