Application of matrices in engineering field?

Answer 1

Matrix and determinants are actually very useful in engineering. I am going to give you a good personal example. I am a chemical engineering student, and when I took my final this past semester for my chemical processes class one of the problems had certain substances going into a reactor and came out of the reactor as different chemicals (they reacted). As part of the procedure used to determine the mass of the outcoming materials you do a mass balance (actually I did an atomic balance because atoms can not be created nor destroyed), in my mass balance I had three equations and two unknowns. At the time I was taking an engineering math course where I learned about matrices and determinants, therefore with what I learned I placed my equations as a "system of matrices" one on top of the others and reduced to "row echelon form" and was able to find all masses individual for each of the compounds. I hope this helped, and if you have any questions dont hesitate to consult with me....Chem Boy.

Answer 2

Matrices are a vital mathematical tool for calculating forces, vectors, tensions, masses, loads and a myriad of other factors that must be accounted for in engineering to ensure a safe and resource-efficient structure.

Answer 3

everywhere you deal with vectors: matricial equations are a more compact way to write scalar equations.

Answer 4

In the engineering field, matrices is usually applied in the magnetic fields vectors. It is also used in linear algebra which is one of the units of all the engineering courses.

Answer 5

One common use is in solving simultaneous linear equations.