Manipal Engineering Manipal Engineering Solved Paper-2012

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    Let\[\omega =-\frac{1}{2}+i\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\], then value of the determinant\[\left| \begin{matrix}    1 & 1 & 1  \\    1 & -1-{{\omega }^{2}} & {{\omega }^{2}}  \\    1 & {{\omega }^{2}} & \omega   \\ \end{matrix} \right|\]is

    A) \[3\omega \]                                    

    B) \[3\omega (\omega -1)\]

    C) \[3{{\omega }^{2}}\]                     

    D)        \[3\omega (1-\omega )\]

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    Applying\[{{R}_{2}}\to {{R}_{2}}-{{R}_{1}};\,\,{{R}_{3}}\to {{R}_{3}}-{{R}_{1}}\], the given determinant becomes \[\Delta =\left| \begin{matrix}    1 & 1 & 1  \\    0 & -2-{{\omega }^{2}} & {{\omega }^{2}}-1  \\    0 & {{\omega }^{2}}-1 & \omega -1  \\ \end{matrix} \right|\]         \[=1[(\omega -2)(-2-{{\omega }^{2}})-\{({{\omega }^{2}}-1)({{\omega }^{2}}-1)\}]\]                                                                 \[-1(0)+1(0)\]                 \[=(-2-{{\omega }^{2}})(\omega -1)-{{({{\omega }^{2}}-1)}^{2}}\]                 \[=-2\omega +2-{{\omega }^{3}}+{{\omega }^{2}}-({{\omega }^{4}}+1-2{{\omega }^{2}})\]                 \[=-2\omega +1+{{\omega }^{2}}-(\omega +1-2{{\omega }^{2}})\]                 \[=3{{\omega }^{2}}-3\omega \]                 \[=3\omega (\omega -1)\]


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