Prove part (3) of Theorem 4.2.7.

Name: Problem 30, Chapter 4: Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
Uploaded: 2020-05-17T19:16:41-08:00
Duration: 7 min 6 s
Channel: Donald Albin
Description: Prove part (3) of Theorem 4.2.7.

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Transcript

00:01 Okay, so we're proving part three of theorem 4 .2 .7.

00:21 Okay, part three of theorem 4 .2 .7 says k times the zero vector equals the zero vector for all scalers.

00:52 Element of f.

00:58 Let v be the vector space over f.

01:02 All right.

01:04 So we're going to let v be an arbitrary element in vector space.

01:25 I'm trying to follow the proof of two, because it says using the fact that 0 equals 0 plus 0.

01:38 So maybe we will go back a little bit here.

01:44 We know that the 0 vector equals the 0 vector plus the zero vector because of axiom 5, which says that if you start with a vector and you add the zero vector to it, you end up with the original vector.

02:03 Okay.

02:06 And we then, can multiply both sides of the equation times a constant.

02:22 So k times the zero vector equals k times the zero vector plus the zero vector.

02:37 And now, according to axiom 9, k times the zero vector plus the zero vector is k times, the zero vector plus k times the zero vector.

03:00 All right, so now according to axiom six, there are additive inverses.

03:12 So i can take k times the zero vector and add the opposite of k times the zero vector on both sides of the equation.

03:32 K times the zero vector plus k times the zero vector plus negative k times the zero vector.

03:47 And now, according to the associative property of addition, that's a4...

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