By reading this article your following problems will be answered.
What are matrices.
Types of matrices.
Diagonal elements of matrices.
What are the diagonal elements of a matrix.
- Matrix is a rectangular table of numbers.
- ‘A’ is a matrix of order m×n.
- The ith row and jth column element of a matrix is denoted by aij.
- Order of the matrix is the Number of rows × Number of columns
- There are few types of matrices.
- Square matrix
- Diagonal matrix
- Identity matrix
- Upper triangular matrix
- Lower triangular matrix
- Symmetric matrix
- Shew-symmetric matrix
- Zero matrix
- Row matrix (Row vector)
- Column matrix (Column vector)
- Elements of a matrix are the numbers which are contained inside the matrix.
- Elements of a matrix can be any numerical value including fractions, decimals, negative numbers and zero.
- Now let’s get to know about diagonal elements of a matrix.
Diagonal elements
- Diagonal elements are the elements which both i and j values are equal.
- In the following image, diagonal elements are circled in red.
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