Exercise CB.C41 Robert Beezer

Let $S_{22}$ be the vector space of $2\times 2$ symmetric matrices. Find a basis for $S_{22}$ composed of eigenvectors of the linear transformation $\ltdefn{Q}{S_{22}}{S_{22}}$. \begin{equation*} \lt{Q}{ \begin{bmatrix} a & b\\ b & c \end{bmatrix} } = \begin{bmatrix} 25a + 18b + 30c & -16a - 11b - 20c\\ -16a - 11b - 20c & -11a - 9b - 12c \end{bmatrix} \end{equation*}

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