Syllabus and homework problems for Math 550

Syllabus and homework problems for Math 550

Date Reading Topics Graded Problems Recommended Problems
9/07 1.3, 1.4 Gaussian Elimination; Review of Matrix Algebra
9/12 1.4 Review of Matrix Algebra 10, 24 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 22, 23, 25, 31, 39, 42, 46, 49, 51, 52
1.5 Gaussian Elimination by Elementary Matrices; LU and LDU Factorizations; 12, 24 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 23, 25, 33
1.6 Matrix Inverses 12 3, 5, 9, 11, 17, 19, 21, 25, 29, 35, 40, 45, 54, 56
9/14 2.1 Vector Spaces and Subspaces 14 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 18, 19, 25, 29, 30
2.2 Solving Linear Systems 26, 62 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 20, 21, 25, 35, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 51, 53, 56, 61, 66, 68
9/19 2.3 Linear Independence, Basis, and Dimension; Column Space, Null Space, Uniqueness of rref(A) 28, 34 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 19, 22, 23, 29, 31, 35, 37
9/21 2.4 Four Fundamental Subspaces 10, 18 3, 5, 7, 13, 15, 17, 21, 25, 27, 29, 35, 37
2.6 Linear Transformations and Their Matrices 8 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 18, 23, 30, 37
9/26 3.1 Orthogonal Spaces 32 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 19, 21, 25, 27, 30, 33, 39, 49, 51
3.2 Inner Products and Projections 14 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23
9/28 3.3 Projections and Least-squares Approximations 4, 6, 12, 14, 18 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, 19, 25, 27
10/3 3.4 Orthonormal Bases; Gram-Schmidt Process; QR Factorization 12, 16, 32 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 27, 31
10/5 4.1 Determinants
4.2 Properties of the Determinant function 14, 16 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, 19, 21, 27
    MATLAB Assignment # 1 due 10/10
10/10 4.3 Formulas for Determinants 28, 34, 36 1, 3, 5, 11, 15, 25, 35
10/12 4.4 Determinant Formulas for Matrix Inverse; Cramer's Rule 4, 18 1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 19, 21, 25
10/17 5.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors 10, 14 1, 3, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 22, 23, 28, 30
5.2 Diagonalization 8, 22, 24 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, 29, 35, 40
    MATLAB Assignment # 2 due 10/19
10/19 5.3 Difference Equations 16, 18 3, 5, 7, 17, 27
5.4 Differential Equations 12 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 19, 21, 23, 27
10/24   Midterm Exam on Chapters 1-4 (closed book)
10/26 5.4 Matrix Exponentials 34, 40 33, 35, 37, 39
5.5 Complex Vector Spaces; Hermitian Matrices 8, 12, 18, 46 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 28, 33, 38, 45, 47
10/31 5.6 Schur Triangular Form; Unitary Diagonalization of Normal Matrices 16, 20, 22 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 17, 21, 23
11/2 3.5, Notes Discrete Fourier Transform; Shift Operator and Circulant Matrices 7 1, 4, 9
    MATLAB Assignment # 3 due 11/07
11/07 3.5, Notes Diagonalization of Circulant Matrices; Fast Fourier Transform 8, 20 11
11/09 5.6 Cayley-Hamilton Theorem; Canonical forms for matrices 25, 29
11/14 5.6 Jordan Canonical Form--Statement and Examples 36 35
App. B The Jordan Canonical Form--Statement and Examples 1 5
11/16 App. B Jordan Canonical Form--Proof; Applications to Differential Equations 3, 6 2, 4, 7
    MATLAB Assignment # 4 due 11/21
11/21 6.1 Quadratic Forms 2, 18 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 17, 19
6.2 Positive-definite Matrices 20, 28, 32 1, 5, 7, 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 27
    NO CLASS November 23
11/28 6.2 Indefinite Quadratic Forms; Law of Inertia 32
11/30 6.3 Singular Value Decomposition 2 1, 3, 5, 7, 15, 19
12/05 6.4 Minimum Principles; Rayleigh Quotient 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16
12/07 7.2-3 Matrix Norm and Condition Number 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14
7.3 Power Method
    MATLAB Assignment # 5 due 12/12
12/12 7.3 Hessenberg form and QR algorithm
12/14 7.3 QR algorithm and Inverse Power Method
for Eigenvectors
3, 5, 6, 7
12/23   Final Exam (closed book)