MATH 133(Fall, 2003): Schedule (revised November 3, 2003)


 
Week Material WebWork Assignments Written Assignments Tests
Sept 3-17 Overview of the course.
Vectors. Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3. Exploration: The Cross Product.  
Set1: due Sept 21 Assignment 1 (ps) (pdf)
Solution (ps) (pdf)
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Sept 17 - Sept 24 Systems of linear equations. Sections 2.1, 2.2. Set2: due Sept 28 Assignment 2 (ps) (pdf)
Solution (ps) (pdf)
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Sept 27- Oct 1 Spanning sets and linear independence. Section 2.3. Set3: due Oct 5 Assignment 3 (ps) (pdf)
Solution (ps) (pdf)
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Oct 1-8 Matrix operations. Matrix algebra. The inverse of a matrix. Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3. Set4: due Oct 12 Assignment 4 (ps) (pdf)
Solution (ps) (pdf)
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Oct 8-15 The inverse of a matrix (continuation). Subspaces, basis, dimension, and rank. Section 3.3, 3.4. Set5: due Oct 19 * *
Oct 15-22 Introduction to Linear Transformations: Section 3.5 Set6: due Nov 2 Assignment 5 (ps) (pdf)
Solution (ps) (pdf)
Test 1 (pdf) (ps)
Solutions (ps) (pdf)
Oct 22 - Nov 4 Introduction to eigenvalues and eigenvectors, determinants: Sections 4.1, 4.2. Set7: due Nov 5 * *
Nov 5 - Nov 11 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, similarity and diagonalization: Sections 4.3, 4.4. Set8: due Nov 16 Assignment 6 (ps) (pdf)
Solution (ps) (pdf)
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Nov 12-18 Orthogonality, Orthogonal complements and orthogonal projections, the Gram-Schmidt process. Section 5.1,5.2,5.3. Set9: due Nov 30 * *
Nov 19-25 Orthogonal diagonalization of symmetric matrices, applications to quadratic forms: Sections 5.4,5.5. Set10: due Nov 30 * Test 2 (pdf) (ps)
Solutions (ps) (pdf)
Nov 26-Dec 2 Review Set11: due Dec 3 (Bonus Set) * *