5. Consider a system whose dynamics is governed by a linear constant-coefficient ODE. Suppose the impulse response of this system is . Which of the following is true?
(A) the system is order
(B) the system is order
(C) the characteristic equation of the system has a pair of complex roots
(D) one root of the characteristic equation is less than -5
(E) response to a step function does NOT converge to a constant value

1. When using the Gaussian elimination to solve a linear equation Ax = b, elementary row operations (or multiplication by elementary matrices) are applied to the augmented matrix [Ab]. Actually, there are many places in linear algebra where such a technique plays its role； e.g., the null space of A can be determined by setting b = 0. Which of the following cannot be determined by applying such a technique? (A) the range of A (B) the inverse of A (if it is nonsingular) (C) the QR factorization of A (D) the LU factorization of A (if it is square) (E) the determinant of A (if it is square).

2. Consider the system represented by the differential equation + kx = 0. Which of the following is true? (A) the system is critically damped when k = 1 (B) the system is underdamped when k = 1/2 (C) the system is overdamped when k = 0.3 (D) the damping ratio of the system is increased when increasing k (E) none of the above

3. Consider the differential equation + kx = cos(ω t) and its sinusoidal solution . Which of the following is true? (A) for a fixed b, the amplitude of is maximized when k = ω2 (B) for a fixed b, the maximal amplitude of is 1/b (C) for fixed b and k, the amplitude of always grows as ω increases (D) the period of is 2ω (E) the period of depends on b and k.

4. Consider the differential equation + x = cos(ωa t). Which of the following is true? (A) the general solution is sin(ω t) + C, C is a constant. (B) the particular (forced) solution is periodic with period ω (C) the solution is NOT bounded when t grows to infinity (D) If x( π/ ω) = 1, then the solution is (sin(ω t) +π) / (ω t) (E) none of the above

6. Consider the system described in Question 5 again. The unit step response of this system (A) has oscillatory behavior (B) converges to 1 (C) converges to 1/3 (D) (E)

7. What is the solution to the ODE = 4t - 3x ? (A) x(t) = constant (B) x(t) = -ct3 (C) x(t) = + t (D) x(t) = + 4t (E) none of the above

8. Consider the heat equation (A) the heat equation is nonlinear (B) without considering the boundary condition, the general solution is (C) suppose f(x) = 7sin(3x), then the solution is u(x,t) = (D) all of the above are true (E) none of the above is true

9. The linear combination of a set of vectors is an essential element in linear algebra. We say a set V is invariant under linear combination if the implication " and any set of vectors the set of all linear combinations V" holds. And we say a mapping L defined on a set X is invariant under linear combination if the form of linear combination is unchanged under L, or more precisely the statement ", and any set of vectors X, the identity = holds" is true. Which one of the following statements related to linear combination is false? (A) Let S be a subset of a vector space V. Then S is a subspace of V if S is invariant under linear combination. (B) Let  be a set of k subspaces of a vector space W and denote as the set of all linear combinations of the form , with each chosen freely from . Then spa is also a subspace of W with = (C) Let A and B be two matrices and denote C := AB. Then each column of C is a linear combination of all columns of A, and so rank≤ rank is implied.  (D) A mapping L between two vector spaces is a linear transformation if and only if it is invariant under linear combination. (E) Let (V, (. ,. )V) be an inner product space. Then (. , .)V is invariant under linear combination at either one of its two arguments.

10. Let U, V, W be vector spaces and T: U →rightarrow V, S: V →rightarrow W be linear transformations. Also denote the set of all linear transformations from V to W by (V,W) (e.g. S (V,W)). Which one of the following statements is false? (A) The set ((V,W), +, ‧), where (α ‧S1 + β ‧ S2)(v) =α ‧S1(v) +β S2(v) for any v V, (V,W), and α ‧ βR, is also a vector space with dim\mathcal(V,W) = dimV + dimW. (B) The mapping ST(.) defined as ST(u) := S(T(u)) for any u \in U is also a linear transformation from U to W. (C) If both S and T are one-to-one, then their combination ST(.) is also one-to-one. (D) If S: V →rightarrow W is invertible, then the mapping from W to V is also a linear transformation. (E) Suppose that the combination ST(.) is onto. Then at least one of S and T is onto.

複選題11. The linear independence is without doubt one of the most important concepts in linear algebra. Which of the following statements about this concept are true? (A) The number of linearly independent columns of any matrix is equal to the number of linearly independent rows of the matrix. (B) A set of vectors is linearly independent if there exist coefficients , all of them are zero, such that  = 0. (C) The linear independence of a set of vectors is a necessary but not sufficient condition for them to be a basis of a vector space. (D) A square matrix is diagonalizable if and only if all its eigenvectors are linearly independent. (E) Let be the i th eigenvalue-eigenvector-pair of a square matrix. Then all 's are distinct if and only if the set  of eigenvectors is linearly independent.