Math 215: Linear Algebra, Fall 2002

This calendar is tentative and will be updated regularly throughout the semester. In general it is correct for the period with no background color. The green background is past and the blue background is tentative.

Week

Day

Date

Topics

Sections

Assignment

1

Monday

8/26/02

Introductions, R2 as a vector space

1.1

p.13 1-3


Wednesday

8/28/02

Bases

1.2

p.16 1,5-7,8


Friday

8/30/02

Linear Transformations: Definitions and Examples

2.1

p.30 1-7,12-14

2

Monday

9/2/02

Labor Day




Wednesday

9/4/02

Matrices and matrix operations

2.2

p.37 9-17


Friday

9/6/02

Kernels, Images, subspaces

2.3

p.48 3-5,9,10

3

Monday

9/9/02

Determinants,Finding inverses

2.3.3,2.4

p.49 21


Wednesday

9/11/02

Dynamics of iteration

3.1

p.67 #2,3,10,11,22


Friday

9/13/02

Dynamics of iteration



4

Monday

9/16/02

Eigenvalues




Wednesday

9/18/02

Canonical forms

3.2

p.72 1-5


Friday

9/20/02

Dot product

4

p.81 multiples of 3,19

5

Monday

9/23/02

Projections

4



Wednesday

9/25/01

Review & Projections

4

    p. 85 1-3,7-9,13


Friday

9/29/01

Re view


Sample Exam

6

Monday

9/31/02



Dr. Stout in France


Wednesday

10/2/01





Friday

10/5/02


Exam 1

Off to Germany

7

Monday

10/7/02

Vector Spaces in general

5.1



Wednesday

10/9/02

Linear Transformations in general, subspaces

5.2



Friday

10/11/02

Subspaces:Kernels and Images

6.1

p.120 1,5,7,10,11,12

8

Monday

10/14/02

Spanning sets

6.2

p.128 2,4,7-9,12


Wednesday

10/16/01

Error Correcting Codes

5.3



Friday

10/18/02

Fall Break



9

Monday

10/21/02

Systems of Equations

7.1



Wednesday

10/23/02

Using Mathematica on systems

7.2



Friday

10/25/02

Applications of Linear equations

7.3


10

Monday

10/28/02

Linear Independence and bases

8.1, 8.2

p.162 1,2,4, p.176 2,3,8-15


Wednesday

10/30/02

Finding Bases




Friday

11/1/02

Using Bases to get matrices

9.1


11

Monday

11/4/02

Operations on matrices

9.2

Sample Exam


Wednesday

11/6/02

Review


Class meets in E106


Friday

11/8/02

Exam ex2F02Key.pdf


Class meets in E106

12

Monday

11/11/02

Rank-Nullity

10.2

p.222 1-3,11-14


Wednesday

11/13/02

Inverses/ Change of Basis

10.1

p.215 1-2,8-10,15


Friday

11/15/02

Changer of basis/canonical forms

11

p.235 1-8,16

13

Monday

11/18/02

Determinants

12



Wednesday

11/20/02

Eigenvalues

13.1



Friday

11/22/02

Diagonalization

13.2


14

Monday

11/25/01

Inner Products

14.1

p.289 1-8


Wednesday

11/27/01

Thanksgiving Break




Friday

12/2/02

Thanksgiving Break



15

Monday

12/2/02

Orthogonal bases:Gram Schmit

14.2

p.295 2,4,7,8,9


Wednesday

12/4/02

Projections and Approximation in function spaces

14.3

14.4

p.302 1-3,6,7

p.314 1-4 on Mathematica


Friday

12/6/02


Review















Wednesday

12/11/02

Final exam

10:15-12:15

s02ex3.pdf