Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Lesson 3 of 10
Finding eigenvalues
Objective. Solve det(A − λI) = 0 to find eigenvalues.
The key idea
An eigenvector is a direction the matrix only stretches; the eigenvalue is the stretch factor.
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