revised 1/02/02
Spring, 2002

Math 250 Syllabus, Spring 2002

General Syllabus Note: This is a suggested syllabus. The exact timing of mid-term exams and coverage of topics is determined by the individual course instructors.


Lecture Reading Topics
1 1.1 Linear Systems, Method of Elimination
1.2 Matrices
2 1.3 Dot Product
1.4 Matrix Multiplication
3 1.5 Solving Linear Systems, Row Echelon Form
4 1.6 Inverse of a Matrix
5 1.7 LU Factorization
6 3.1 Definition and Properties of the Determinant of a Matrix
7 3.2 Cofactor Expansion, Matrix Inverse by Determinants
8 4.1 Vectors in R2
4.2 Vectors in Rn; dot product and norm
9 4.3 Introduction to Linear Transformations
5.1 Applications to Computer Graphics
 
10 Midterm Exam
 
11 6.1 Vector spaces
6.2 Subspaces
12 6.3 Linear Independence
13 6.4 Basis and Dimension
14 6.5 Homogeneous Systems, General Solution to Ax = b
15 6.6 Row Space, Column Space, and Rank of a Matrix
16 6.8 Orthogonal Bases, Gram-Schmidt Process
17 6.9 Orthogonal Complements, Four Fundamental Subspaces
18 6.9 Orthogonal Projections
7.1 QR Factorization
19 7.2 Application: Least Squares Fitting of Data
 
20 Midterm Exam # 2
 
21 8.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
22 8.1 Characteristic Polynomial
23 8.2 Diagonalization of a Matrix
24 8.3 Eigenvalues/Eigenvectors for Symmetric Matrices
25 8.3 Diagonalization of a Symmetric Matrix
26 9.2 Homogeneous Linear Differential Equations
27 9.4 Quadratic Forms
28 Catch up and review


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