Math 250:04,  Syllabus and General Information, Fall 2025

TF 10:20am - 11:40am, TIL-257 (LIV)


Lecture   Date                                        Section Covered
1   09/02  1.1, 1.2  Systems of Linear Equations, Row Reduction, REF, RREF
2   09/05  1.3, 1.4 Vector Equations,  Matrix Equation AX = B
3   09/09 1.5 Solution Sets of Linear Systems
4   09/12 1.3 Span of a Set of Vectors
5   09/16 1.7 Linear Dependence and Independence
6   09/19 1.8 Linear transformations; Quiz 1
7   09/23 1.9 The Matrix of a Linear Transformation
8   09/26 2.1,  2.2 Matrix Operations, Inverse of a Matrix
9   09/30 2.3 Characterizations of Invertible Matrices
10   10/03 Review for Exam 1
11   10/07 Exam 1 (in our class room) on material covered in Lectures 1-9
12   10/10 3.1 Introduction to Determinants
13   10/14 3.2 Properties of Determinants
14   10/17 2.8, 4.1 Vector Spaces and Subspaces
15   10/21 2.9, 4.2 Null Spaces, Column Spaces, and Linear Transformations
16   10/24 4.3 Linearly Independent Sets, Bases
17   10/28 4.4.Coordinate Systems.   Quiz 2
18   10/31 4.5, 4.6 The Dimension of a Vector Space, Change of a Basis
19   11/04 5.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
20   11/07

5.2, 5.5 The Characteristic Equation, Complex Eigenvalue. Review for Exam 2

21   11/11 Exam 2  (in our class room) on material covered in Lectures 12-18
22   11/14 5.3 Diagonalization
23   11/18 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 Orthogonality, Orthogonal Projections
24   11/21 6.4  The Gram–Schmidt Process
25   11/26 6.5 Least Squares Problems.  Quiz 3
26   12/02 7.1 Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices
27   12/05 7.2, 7.4 Quadratic Forms,  The Singular Value Decomposition
28   12/09 Review for the Final Exam