Math 215

Linear Algebra

General Information Schedule Homework

Schedule

We will cover most of the material in Chapters 1-6 of the textbook.

Class Number Date Sections in Text Brief Description
1 Monday, 1/24 1.1 Introduction, Systems of Linear Equations
2 Wednesday, 1/26 1.2 Row Reduction, Echelon Forms
3 Friday, 1/28 1.3 Vectors, Interpreting Systems of Linear Equations in Terms of Vectors
4 Monday, 1/31 1.4 Linear Systems as Matrix Equations, Spanning R^n
- Wednesday, 2/2 - No Class (Snow Day)
5 Friday, 2/4 1.5 Homogeneous Linear Systems, Describing Solution Sets
6 Monday, 2/7 1.7 Linear Independence
7 Wednesday, 2/9 1.7, 1.8 Linear Independence, Matrices as Linear Transformations
8 Friday, 2/11 1.8, 1.9 Linear Transformations
9 Monday, 2/14 1.9 One-to-one and Onto Linear Transformations
10 Wednesday, 2/16 2.1 Matrix Arithmetic
11 Friday, 2/18 2.2 The Inverse of a Matrix
12 Monday, 2/21 2.2, 2.3 Calculating Inverses, Characterizing Invertible Matrices
13 Wednesday, 2/23 - First Exam
14 Friday, 2/25 2.3 One-to-one and Onto Functions, Left and Right Inverses
15 Monday, 2/28 4.1 Vector Spaces
16 Wednesday, 3/2 4.1, 4.2 Subspaces, Column Space and Null Space
17 Friday, 3/4 4.2, 4.3 Kernel and Range of a Linear Transformation, Bases
18 Monday, 3/7 4.3 Bases
19 Wednesday, 3/9 4.4 Coordinates
20 Friday, 3/11 4.5 Dimension of a Vector Space
21 Monday, 3/14 4.6 Row Space, Rank of a Matrix
22 Wednesday, 3/16 4.9 Markov Chains
23 Friday, 3/18 4.9 Regular Markov Chains
- Monday, 3/21 - Spring Break
- Wednesday, 3/23 - Spring Break
- Friday, 3/25 - Spring Break
- Monday, 3/28 - Spring Break
- Wednesday, 3/30 - Spring Break
- Friday, 4/1 - Spring Break
24 Monday, 4/4 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 Determinants
25 Wednesday, 4/6 - Second Exam
26 Friday, 4/8 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 Determinants
27 Monday, 4/11 5.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
28 Wednesday, 4/13 5.2 The Characteristic Polynomial
29 Friday, 4/15 5.3 Diagonalization
30 Monday, 4/18 5.4 Matrix with Respect to a Basis, Similar Matrices
31 Wednesday, 4/20 5.5 Complex Eigenvalues
32 Friday, 4/22 5.6 Discrete Dynamical Systems
33 Monday, 4/25 6.1 Dot Product, Orthogonal Vectors
34 Wednesday, 4/27 6.2 Orthogonal Sets, Orthogonal Matrices
35 Friday, 4/29 6.2, 6.3 Orthogonal Matrices, Orthogonal Projections
36 Monday, 5/2 6.4 Gram-Schmidt
37 Wednesday, 5/4 6.5, 6.6 Least-Squares, Fitting Lines to Data
38 Friday, 5/6 - Third Exam
39 Monday, 5/9 6.7 Inner Products
40 Wednesday, 5/11 6.7 Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality, Triangle Inequality
41 Friday, 5/13 6.8 Fourier Series, Derivatives and Linear Transformations