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--- lecture_7b [2015/02/10 11:04] – rupert
+++ lecture_7b [2016/02/09 12:25] (current) – rupert
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 === Examples ===
-  * If $B=\begin{bmatrix} 1&3&5\\7&-20&14\end{bmatrix}$, then $B$ is a $2\times 3$ matrix, and the $(1,3)$ entry of $B$ is $b_{13}=5$, then $(2,1)$ entry is $b_{21}=7$, etc.
+  * If $B=\begin{bmatrix} 99&3&5\\7&-20&14\end{bmatrix}$, then $B$ is a $2\times 3$ matrix, and the $(1,1)$ entry of $B$ is $b_{11}=99$, the $(1,3)$ entry of $B$ is $b_{13}=5$, the $(2,1)$ entry is $b_{21}=7$, etc.
-  * {{page>column vector}}
+  * $\begin{bmatrix}3\\2\\4\\0\\-1\end{bmatrix}$ is a $5\times 1$ matrix. A matrix like this with one column is called a **column vector**.
-  * {{page>row vector}}
+  * $\begin{bmatrix}3&2&4&0&-1\end{bmatrix}$ is a $1\times 5$ matrix. A matrix like this with one row is called a **row vector**.
+Even though the row matrix and the column matrix above have the same entries, they have a different "shape", or "size", so we must think of them has being different matrices. Let's give the definitions to make this precise.
+=== Definition ===
+{{page>same size}}
+=== Definition ===
+{{page>equal matrices}}
+=== Examples ===
+  * $\begin{bmatrix}3\\2\\4\\0\\-1\end{bmatrix}\ne \begin{bmatrix}3&2&4&0&-1\end{bmatrix}$, since these matrices have different sizes: the first is $5\times 1$ but the second is $1\times 5$.
+==== ====
+  * $\begin{bmatrix}1\\2\end{bmatrix}\ne\begin{bmatrix}1 &0\\2&0\end{bmatrix}$ since these matrices are not the same size.
+  * $\begin{bmatrix}1&0\\0&1\end{bmatrix}\ne \begin{bmatrix}1&0\\1&0\end{bmatrix}$ because even though they have the same size, the $(2,1)$ entries are different.
+  * If $\begin{bmatrix}3x&7y+2\\8z-3&w^2\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}1&2z\\\sqrt2&9\end{bmatrix}$ then we know that all the corresponding entries are equal, so we get four equations:\begin{align*}3x&=1\\7y+2&=2z\\8z-3&=\sqrt2\\w^2&=9\end{align*}