Math 250:02,  TTh 2pm-3:20pm, LSH-B269 (LIV)  Fall 2026

Syllabus and General Information

 


Lecture   Date                                        Section Covered
1   09/01  1.1, 1.2  Systems of Linear Equations, Row Reduction, REF, RREF
2   09/03  1.3, 1.4 Vector Equations,  Matrix Equation AX = B
3   09/10 1.5 Solution Sets of Linear Systems
4   09/15 1.3 Span of a Set of Vectors
5   09/17 1.7 Linear Dependence and Independence
6   09/22 1.8 Linear transformations; Quiz 1
7   09/24 1.9 The Matrix of a Linear Transformation
8   09/29 2.1,  2.2 Matrix Operations, Inverse of a Matrix
9   10/01 2.3 Characterizations of Invertible Matrices
10   10/06 Review for Exam 1
11   10/08 Exam 1 (in our class room) on material covered in Lectures 1-9
12   10/13 3.1 Introduction to Determinants
13   10/15 3.2 Properties of Determinants
14   10/20 2.8, 4.1 Vector Spaces and Subspaces
15   10/22 2.9, 4.2 Null Spaces, Column Spaces, and Linear Transformations
16   10/27 4.3 Linearly Independent Sets, Bases
17   10/29 4.4.Coordinate Systems.   Quiz 2
18   11/03 4.5, 4.6 The Dimension of a Vector Space, Change of a Basis
19   11/05 5.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
20   11/10

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

21   11/12 Exam 2  (in our class room) on material covered in Lectures 12-18
22   11/17 5.3 Diagonalization
23   11/19 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 Orthogonality, Orthogonal Projections
24   11/24 6.4  The Gram–Schmidt Process
25   12/01 6.5 Least Squares Problems.  Quiz 3
26   12/03 7.1 Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices
27   12/08 7.2, 7.4 Quadratic Forms,  The Singular Value Decomposition
28   12/10 Review for the Final Exam