Syllabus

Week 1.

Tu 8/27 1.1 Introduction to Linear Systems
Th 8/29 1.2 Matrices and Gaussian Elimination

Week 2.

Tu 9/03 1.3 Gauss-Jordan Elimination
Th 9/05 1.4 Matrix Operations

Week 3.

Tu 9/10 1.5 Inverses of Matrices
Th 9/12 2.1 2 x 2 Determinants

Week 4.

Tu 9/17 Review for Exam 1
Th 9/19 Exam 1, 8:00am-6:30pm, Math Testing Center
Th 9/19 2.2 Higher-Order Determinants
Fr 9/20 Unrestricted Withdrawal Deadline

Week 5.

Tu 9/24 2.3 Determinants and Elementary Row Operations
Th 9/26 2.4 Cramer's Rule and Inverse Matrices

Week 6.

Tu 10/01 4.1 The Vector Space Rn and Subspaces
Th 10/03 4.1 (continued)

Week 7.

Tu 10/08 4.2 Linear Combinations and Linear Independence
Th 10/10 4.3 Bases for Vector Spaces

Week 8.

Tu 10/15 4.4 Row and Column Spaces
Th 10/17 Review for Exam 2

Week 9.

Tu 10/22 Exam 2, 8:00am-6:30pm, Math Testing Center
Tu 10/22 4.4 (continued)
Th 10/24 5.1 Orthogonal Vectors in Rn

Week 10.

Tu 10/29 5.2 Orthogonal Projections and Least Squares Solutions
Th 10/31 5.2 (continued)
Fr 11/01 Restricted Withdrawal Deadline

Week 11.

Tu 11/05 5.4 Orthogonal Bases and the Gram-Schmidt Algorithm
Th 11/07 6.1 Introduction

Week 12.

Tu 11/12 6.1 (continued)
Th 11/14 6.2 Diagonalization of Matrices

Week 13.

Tu 11/19 6.2 (continued)
Th 11/21 Review for Exam 3

Week 14.

Tu 11/26 Exam 3, 8:00am-6:30pm, Math Testing Center
Tu 11/26 7.1 Matrix Transformations
Th 11/28 Thanksgiving Break

Week 15.

Tu 12/03 7.2 Properties of Linear Transformations
Th 12/05 Review for Final Exam

Week 16.

Tu 12/10 Review for Final Exam
Fr 12/13 Final Exam, 10:00am-11:50am, PSF 210

MAT 242 A / Elementary Linear Algebra / Fall 2002
Last Update: 27 August 2002
 
S. Kaliszewski / Department of Mathematics and Statistics / Arizona State University