Symmetric and Skew-Symmetric Matrices
Symmetric and Skew-Symmetric Matrices: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Symmetric and Skew-symmetric Matrices, Symmetric Matrix, Skew-Symmetric Matrix, Properties of Symmetric Matrices, and Properties of Skew-Symmetric Matrices.
Important Questions on Symmetric and Skew-Symmetric Matrices
If then is

If are any two non-zero real numbers, and are two matrices such that then

Determinant of skew-symmetric matrix of order "three" is always

If is a symmetric matrix then find the value of .

If the matrix is both symmetric and skew symmetric, then

If and are non singular square matrices of even order such that and and (where is null matrix), then choose appropriate option

Let be the set of all skew symmetric matrices, whose entries are or If there are exactly four , six and six , then what will be the number of such matrices?

If a square matrix is expressed as the sum of a symmetric and skew-symmetric matrix, then the symmetric matrix will be

The symmetric part of the matrix is

If are skew-symmetric matrices of same order and , then the sum of the principal diagonal elements of matrix is equal to

If a matrix is both symmetric and skew symmetric then

If and are two skew symmetric matrices of order then

If is equal to

The symmetric part of the matrix is

Let be an odd prime number and be the following set of matrices
The number of in such that is either symmetric or skew - symmetric or both, and is divisible by is

If is a symmetric matrix, then x =

If and then

In a symmetric matrix of order maximum number of distinct elements are -

If is expressed as the sum of a symmetric and skew-symmetric matrix then the symmetric matrix is

If is a skew-symmetric matrix, then trace of is
