Math 250:03,  Syllabus and General Information, Spring 2025

TF 8:30-9:50am, TIL-258 (LIV)


Lecture   Date                                        Section Covered
1 01/21

1.1, 1.2  Systems of Linear Equations, Row Reduction, REF, RREF

2 01/24  1.3, 1.4 Vector Equations,  Matrix Equation AX = B
3 01/28 1.5 Solution Sets of Linear Systems
4 01/31 1.6 Span of a Set of Vectors
5 02/04 1.7 Linear Dependence and Independe
6 02/07 1.8 Linear transformations; Quiz 1
7 02/11 1.9 The Matrix of a Linear Transformation
8 02/14 2.1, 2.2 Matrix Operations, Inverse of a Matrix
9 02/18 2.3 Characterizations of Invertible Matrices
10 02/21 Review for Exam 1
11 02/25 Exam 1 (in our class room) on material covered in Lectures 1-9
12 02/28 3.1 Introduction to Determinants
13 03/04 3.2 Properties of Determinants
14 03/07 4.1 Vector Spaces and Subspaces
15 03/11 4.2 Null Spaces, Column Spaces, and Linear Transformations
16 03/14 4.3 Linearly Independent Sets, Bases
17 03/25 4.4.Coordinate Systems.   Quiz 2
18 03/28  4.5, 4.6 The Dimension of a Vector Space, Change of a Basis
19 04/01 5.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
20 04/04

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

21 04/08 Exam 2  (in our class room) on material covered in Lectures 12-18
22 04/11  6.1, 6.2 Inner Product (including Hermitian), Length, and Orthogonality, Orthogonal Sets
23 04/15 6.3 Orthogonal Projections
24 04/18 6.4  The Gram–Schmidt Process
25 04/22 6.5 Least Squares, Problems.  Quiz 3
26 04/25 7.1 Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices
27 04/29 7.2, 7.4 Quadratic Forms,  The Singular Value Decomposition
28 05/02 Review for the Final Exam