Solution to Exercise 3.63.
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Exercise 3.63. What is the form of the inverse of an affine translation of the Euclidean plane? Affine rotation?

Let  be the matrix of an affine translation of the Euclidean plane by the vector PQ = (a, b, 0). Then

 

 

Let  be the matrix of an affine rotation of the Euclidean plane about the origin. Then