Table of topics and assignments

                                             
Learning Assistant for the class: Marco Rodriguez.  His schedule MTWR 2:00-3:00pm. Location: GC 278A.
Tutoring in GL120 has also started. Hours are MTWR 9am-8pm, F 9am-5pm. Many senior Math Majors and graduate
students (including Marco) work as tutors there and they will be able to help you.
                                            
Good resources for extra exercises: Prentice Hall website for the textbook - especially useful are the true-false questions for each section
Professor Steve Hudson's materials for Linear Algebra . Be sure to try his exam page and his help links for Lin. Algebra.
Some other useful links have been gathered by Adrian Suarez. They include a free Lin. Algebra textbook and a free software,
OCTAVE, equivalent to MATLAB.

I've been told that DM 409A will be mostly unavailable because of classes. For MATLAB, use instead the computer lab in PC 413.
The lab monitor should be able to help you find a machine with MATLAB on it. Check Prof. Hudson's page for help with MATLAB.

Date
Topics covered
Suggested assignment Comments
May 09
1.1. Linear systems
1(b,c), 3-7, 9, 10

May 10
1.2 Row Echelon Form
1-6, 9-15

May 11
1.3 Matrix Algebra
1-4, 9, 10, 13, 15-18, 20, 21, 25, 27
Quiz 1 (in class) on Thursday, May 12
covers sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.
May 12
1.4. Elementary Matrices

Quiz 1
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24

To review Ch. 1 do also
Test A and Test B from pages 87-89
(ignore Pbs. 11, 12 page 89)
May 16
2.1 Determinants


1, 3-6, 8-10


First MATLAB mini-project: Pb. 5 page 84 textbook.
Due date: Thursday, May 26.
Your project should contain the MATLAB(OCTAVE) printout, but also
the answers and justifications to the questions contained in the problem
(these can be handwritten).
May 17
2.2 Prop. of dets 1-7, 12-16 Quiz 2 (in class) Thursday, May 19
covers sections 2.1, 2.2
May 18
2.3 Cramer's Rule 1-12
Do also Tests A and B from the end of Chapter 2.
May 19
3.1 Vector spaces
Quiz 2
1, 3, 5, 6-9, 16 Home MATLAB access info (thanks to Damon Fitzgerald)
Students can acess MATLAB from any computer by accessing e-labs through FIU UTS website:
https://elabs.fiu.edu/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/login2.aspx
The set up depends on web browser and OS but it's pretty straight forward. 
Any FIU student with internet access and a Panther ID can access this service.
May 23
3.2 Subspaces 2-4, 10, 16, 18, 20
May 24
3.3 Lin. independence
1-3, 6-8, 11-13, 16, 17
Office hour for today (May 24)  is changed to 3:45-4:45pm.
I will not be in my office between 11:00-12:15.
May 25
3.4 Basis & dim.
1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18 Take home Quiz 3. Due Tuesday May 31.
May 26
Review for Midterm

You can also do Pbs. 1-8 from Ch. 3 - Test A,
and Pbs. 1, 2, 3a, 5, 6, 8, 9 from Ch. 3 - Test B.
The Midterm exam on Tuesday, May 31, covers all sections we did
up to (and including) 3.4.
May 30
Memorial Day; no class
Most questions will be from (or similar to) exercises from the suggested
homework. You should also take a look at the true-false and the review problems of each chapter. Make sure you know very well all definitions and the statements
of important theorems. Proofs of some parts of these theorems may also be required.
The deadline to return the first MATLAB project
is changed to Monday, June 6
May 31
Midterm exam
Try to arrive early. We'll start the exam at 12:20, so that you can have a bit more time.
Note that June 1 is the last day to drop the course.
Will try to return your midterm by tomorrow.
June1
3.5 Change of basis
1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10

June 2
3.6 Row & column space
1, 4-9, 16, 19, 22
First MATLAB project due Monday, June 6. Submission delays will incure penalties.
Quiz 4 (in class) on Tuesday, June 7 covers 3.5 and 3.6
June 6
4.1 Linear Maps
4.2 Matrix of a lin. map
1-4, 7, 14, 20, 21

1, 2, 5, 6, 13, 15, 18
Second MATLAB project: Problems 1 and 2 pages 170-171
and Problem 1 pages 206-207. Due date June 16.
June 7
4.3 Similarity
Quiz 4
1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11-15
June 8
5.4. Inner Product
5.1 I.P. in R^n
1, 2, 7, 8, 9,  24, 29
1-13
Quiz 5 - take home -Due Monday, June 13
Problem 5, page 205 - but for the operator L on P_3
defined by L(p(x)) = x p'(x) + p(0).
June 9
5.5 Orthonormal basis
5.2 S, S^{perp}
2, 4, 6, 11, 15, 27, 28

1-9, 13
Office hours for today are cancelled.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
June 13
5.3 Least Squares
1-3, 5-7, 14
June 14
5.6 Gramm-Schmidt
1, 3, 4, 5, 7

June 15
6.1 E-values, e-vectors
1-10, 18
Quiz 6 - take home - Due Monday, June 20.
June 16
6.3 Diagonalization
1-4, 6-9, 17, 18
MATLAB project 2 due today!
June 20
6.4 Hermitian, normal matrices
1, 2, 4a,b,e, 5a,b,d,e,f, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19

June 21
6.4 Hermitian, normal
matrices
see above

June 22
Review for final
Theoretical topics on the final will be chosen from the following:
Thms.6.3.2, 6.1.1, 5.5.8, 5.5.7, 5.5.2, 5.4.2, 5.4.1, 5.3.1, 5.2.1, 4.1.1, 3.6.5, 3.6.2
You should know very well all definitions and all statements of important theorems.
Most problems will be from (or very similar to) exercises in the suggested homework. Some true-false questions will likely appear.
Final will cover the material done after midterm.
June 23
Final Exam





Here are your scores on the final and grades for the class.

Have a good summer and good luck with your studies!