CHAPTER 13 — Matrices and Simple Matrix Operations

In many fields matrices are used to represent both objects and operations on objects. In computer graphics, points and vectors are represented with column matrices. Operations on those are represented with square matrices.

Chapter Topics:

• What a matrix is
• Dimensions of a matrix
• Elements of a matrix
• Square matrix
• Matrix addition
• Zero matrix
• Matrix negation
• Matrix subtraction
• Scalar multiplication of a matrix
• The transpose of a matrix