CHAPTER 13 — Matrices and Simple Matrix Operations

In many fields matrices are used to represent objects and operations on those objects. In computer graphics, points and directed line segments are represented with column matrices. Other matrix types represent operations on those objects

Chapter Topics:

• What a matrix is.
• Dimensions of a matrix.
• Elements of a matrix.
• Matrix addition.
• Zero matrix.
• Matrix negation.
• Matrix subtraction.
• Scalar multiplication of a matrix.
• The transpose of a matrix.