Math 250:B5, MTWTh, 1pm - 2:55pm, Summer 2024

 Syllabus and General Information


Lecture   Date                                        Section Covered
1  05/28 1.1, 1.2 Matrices and Vectors
2  05/29 1.3 Systems of Linear Equations 
1.4 Gaussian Elimination
3  05/30 1.6 Span of a Set of Vectors 
1.7 Linear Dependence and Linear Independence
4   06/03 2.1 Matrix Multiplication;  Quiz 1
5   06/04 2.3, Appendix E  Invertibility and Elementary Matrices, Uniqueness of RREF
6   06/05 2.4  Inverse of a Matrix
7   06/06 2.6  LU Decomposition of a Matrix; Review for the exam
8   06/10 Midterm Exam 1  (on material covered in Lectures 1-6)
9   06/11 3.1 Determinants; Cofactor Expansions
10  06/12 3.2 Properties of Determinants
11   06/13 4.1 Subspaces 
4.2 Basis and Dimension,
4.3 Subspaces associated with a matrix
12   06/17 5.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; Quiz 2
13    06/18  5.2 Characteristic Polynomial
14    06/19 5.3 Diagonalization of a Matrix 
5.5 Applications of Diagonalization; Review for the exam
15   06/20 Midterm Exam 2 (on material covered in Lectures 7, 9-13)
16    06/24  6.1 Geometry of Vectors; Projection onto a Line
17   06/25 6.2 Orthogonal Sets of Vectors; Gram - Schmidt Process; QR factorization
18  06/26 6.3 Orthogonal Projection; Othogonal Complements
19   06/27 6.4 Least Squares 
6.5 Normal Equations, Orthogonal Matrices;  Quiz 3
20    07/01 6.6 Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices, Quadratic forms
Spectral Decomposition for Symmetric Matrices
21   07/02  Catch up and Review for the Final Exam
22   07/03 Final Exam (cumulative, 180 min)