Calendar for Math 215, Linear Algebra, Spring 2007

This calendar is tentative and will be updated throughout the semester.

Week

Day

Date

Topic

Sections

HW

1 Monday 1/8/07 R^2 as a vector space 1.1 p.18 3
Wednesday 1/10/07 Bases for R^2 1.2 p.21 1,5,6,7
Friday 1/12/07 Linear Transformations 2.1 p.34 1-5, 12-14
2 Monday 1/15/07 Matrices 2.2 p.41 1-8, 11-17
Wednesday 1/17/07 Subspaces:Kernel and Image 2,3 p.52 6-10,19-21
Friday 1/19/07 Inverses 2.4 p.58 3-8, 11-14
3 Monday 1/22/07 Eigenvalues p,70 1-8, four from 9-16
Wednesday 1/24/07 Iteration p.72 18-22
Friday 1/26/07 Lab
4 Monday 1/29/07 Canonical forms p.76 1-10,13-15,18
Wednesday 1/31/07 Dot Products
Friday 2/2/07 Projections
5 Monday 2/5/07 Review
Wednesday 2/7/07 Exam 1
Friday 2/9/07 Vector Spaces in general
6 Monday 2/12/07 Linear Transformations
Wednesday 2/14/07 Other fields
Friday 2/16/07 Subspaces
7 Monday 2/19/07 Coding Theory
Wednesday 2/21/07 Sums and intersections 6.4 p.135 2,3 p.138 1-3,8,11,12
Friday 2/23/07 Midterm Grades, systems
8 Monday 2/26/07 Systems of equations lab
Wednesday 2/28/07 Applications of systems p.169 1-3,7-9
Friday 3/2/07 Bases
9 Monday 3/5/07 Bases and Matrices p.177 15-19, p.191 4-7.11,12
Wednesday 3/7/07 Matrices
Friday 3/9/07 Review
10 Monday 3/12/07 Exam 2
Wednesday 3/14/07 Inverses
Friday 3/16/07 Rank-Nullity
11 Monday 3/19/07 Spring Break
Friday 2/23/07 Spring Break
12 Monday 3/26/07 Change of Base
Wednesday 3/28/07 Similar Matrices
Friday 3/30/07 Canonical forms p.256 5-12
13 Monday 4/2/07 Determinants p.265 6-10,12
Wednesday 4/4/07 Determinants
Friday 4/6/07 Eigenvalues
14 Monday 4/9/07 Eigenvalues
Wednesday 4/11/07 Inner Products
Friday 4/13/07 Projections
15 Monday 4/16/07 Approximation
Wednesday 4/18/07
Friday 4/20/07
Finals Monday 4/23/07
Thursday 4/26/07 3:30-5:30 Exam 3