Exercise 6.2.9

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The orthonormal basis for W is the set consisting of the normalized vector (i,0,1), { 1 2(i,0,1)}. To find a basis for W is to find a basis for the null space of the following system of equations

(a,b,c) (i,0,1) = ai + c = 0.

The basis would be {(1,0,i),(0,1,0)}. It’s lucky that it’s orthogonal. If it’s not, we should apply the Gram-Schmidt process to it. Now we get the orthonormal basis

{ 1 2(1,0,i),(0,1,0)}

by normalizing those elements in it.

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