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True or false: A linear transformation L: ℝ^2 →ℝ^2 maps (a)...

True or false: A linear transformation $L: \mathbb{R}^2 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$ maps
(a) straight lines to straight lines; (b) triangles to triangles; (c) squares to squares;
(d) circles to circles; (e) ellipses to ellipses.

Key Concepts

Mapping of Circles and Ellipses

A circle, defined by all points equidistant from a central point, under a general linear transformation, usually becomes an ellipse because different scaling in different directions distorts the uniform distance property. Conversely, an ellipse, a stretched circle, generally remains an ellipse, since the linear transformation will still map its quadratic form to another quadratic form.

Shape Distortion Under Linear Maps

While linear transformations preserve the linear structure of the space, they do not generally preserve specific geometric properties like angle measures and side lengths. Thus, figures that have extra properties – such as squares possessing equal sides and right angles or circles having all points equidistant from a center – may not retain these properties after the transformation unless the transformation is additionally an isometry.

Affine Geometry

Within affine geometry, figures such as triangles are considered. Linear transformations, due to their preservation of linear combinations and ratios, always map triangles to other triangles, along with other affine shapes, without necessarily preserving angles or lengths.

Linear Transformation

A linear transformation is a function between vector spaces that preserves vector addition and scalar multiplication. This property guarantees that straight lines are mapped to straight lines and that the image of a geometric object is determined entirely by the transformation's action on the space.

Preservation of Straight Lines

One key property of linear transformations is that they preserve collinearity. This means that the image of any straight line under a linear transformation will also be a straight line, as the linear combination structure is maintained.

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