Nov 1-5
Math 253 Weekly Schedule
Text: Introduction to Linear Algebra
3rd edition, G. Strang.
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Week Dates Reading Assignment Homework Assignment HW Due Date Exam Date
1 Aug 31 - Sept 3 Sections 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
vectors, linear combinations, dot products, linear equations		 Assignment 1
1.1   1, 2, 3, 18, 19, 28
1.2   1, 2, 4, 6b, 8, 11, 13, 20, 29 		Thursday
Sept 9		 No Exam
2 Sept 6 - 10 Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
linear equations, elimination, elimination using matrices 		Assignment 2
2.1   10, 11, 18, 22, 27
2.2   1, 2, 5, 11, 19
2.3   1, 2, 3, 7, 8
Also write up the solutions to the two problems that you didn't do in Group Exam 1 		Thursday
Sept 16		 Group
Exam 1
Friday
Sept 10
3 Sept 13 - 17 Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
matrix mult, inverse matrix, elimination=LU factorization 		Assignment 3
2.3   27
2.4   14, 26
2.5   1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 25
2.6   12, 18
2.7   4
Also write up the solutions to the two problems that you didn't do in Group Exam 2		 Thursday
Sept 23		 Group
Exam 2
Monday
Sept 20
4 Sept 20 - 24 Sections 2.7, 3.1, 3.2
transposes and permutations, vector spaces, null space 		Assignment 4
2.7   5, 7, 16, 19
3.1   1, 2, 8, 10, 18, 20, 22, 24, 28
3.2   1, 2
Also write up the solutions to the two problems that you didn't do in Group Exam 3		 Thursday
Sept 30		 Group
Exam3
Monday
Sept 27
5 Sept 27 -
Oct 1 		Sections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
null space, rank of a matrix, solving Ax=b 		Assignment 5
3.2   4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 18,
        19, 26, 27, 30
3.3   7, 10, 15, 17, 18, 19		 Friday
Oct 8		 MIDTERM
EXAM 1
Monday
Oct 4
6 Oct 4 - 8 Sections 3.5, 3.6
Independence, Basis, Dimension, & the Four Subspaces 		Assignment 6
3.4   1, 4, 6, 11,13, 16, 17, 24
3.5   2, 5, 9, 10, 13, 21, 27, 29 		Thursday
Oct 14
7 Oct 11-15 Sections 3.6, 4.1, 4.2
The Four Subspaces, Orthogonality, Projections 		Assignment 7
3.6   2, 4, 11, 13, 20
4.1   3, 4, 11, 17, 19, 21, 28
4.2   1, 2
Also write up the solutions to the two problems that you didn't do in Group Exam 4		 Thursday
Oct 21		 Group
Exam 4
Friday
Oct 15
8 & 9 Oct 18-29 Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Projections, Least Squares Approximations 		Assignment 8
Group Exam 5
Group Exam 5, solutions		 Friday
Oct 29		 Group
Exam 5
Friday
Oct 29
10 Sections 4.4, 5.1, 5.2
Orthonormal Bases, Gram-Schmidt, Determinants 		Assignment 9
Group Exam 6
Group Exam 6, solutions		 Friday
Nov 5		 Group
Exam 6
Friday
Nov 5
11 Nov 8-12 Sections 6.1, 6.2
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, Diagonalization 		Assignment 10 Friday
Nov 12		 MIDTERM
EXAM 2
Solutions
[1], [2], [3], [4],
12 Nov 15-19 Sections 6.2, 6.4, 8.3
Diagonalization, Diagonalization and Symmetric Matricies, Markov Matricies 		Assignment 11
6.1   12, 20, 22, 27
6.2   1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 15, 16, 19, 24 		Friday
Nov 19		 Group
Exam 7
Tuesday
Nov 23
13 Nov 22-24 Sections 6.3
Applications to Differential Equations 		Assignment 12 Friday
Dec 3		 Group
Exam 8
t.b.a.
14 Nov 28-Dec 3 Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Linear Transformations, Coordinates, Change of Coordinates Matrix, Quadratic Forms 		Assignment 13 Friday
Dec 10
or at final exam 		Group
Exam 8
t.b.a.
15 Dec 6-10 Sections 6.7 and notes
Constrained Optimization, Singular Value Decomposition 		FINAL EXAM
Tues, Dec 14
2-5PM
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