Byrn Mawr College - Math 203, Linear Algebra (Section 1)
Schedule
(updated 4/27/05)			Back to Math 203 (Sec. 1) page
Class	Date	Day	Text Section		Homework problems
period			(read before class)		(due this class)
Spring break			First half of semester moved to end of page...
22	14-Mar	Mon		More row and col. space	Sec.3.4: 1ac,2bd,3,4,5,7,8,10
23	16-Mar	Wed	3.6	Row space/Column space
24	18-Mar	Fri	4.1	more row/col space, magic squares, lin. trans.	Sec.3.6: 1b,2c,3,4abc,5abc,8
25	21-Mar	Mon	"	more linear transformations
26	23-Mar	Wed	4.2	Matrices and lin. trans.	Sec.4.1: 1ab,3,4*,5ab,7abcd
27	25-Mar	Fri	3.5, 4.3	Change of basis,           similarity of matrices	Sec.4.1: 8ab*,13*                                     Sec.4.2: 1ab,2bc,3a,4                                 project proposals due
28	28-Mar	Mon			Sec.4.2: 6*,7*
29	30-Mar	Wed			Exam 2 available
30	1-Apr	Fri	5.1	Scalar products	Exam 2 due
31	4-Apr	Mon	5.4	Inner products in general
32	6-Apr	Wed			Sec.5.1: 1ac,11,12,13,14                   Sec.5.4:3,7ac,9
33	8-Apr	Fri	5.5, 5.6	Orthonormal sets and the Gram-Schmidt process	Sec.5.1:2ac,3a,5
34	11-Apr	Mon	6.1	Cauchy-Schwartz, defining eigenvalues	prelim. project reports due
35	13-Apr	Wed		Computing eigenvalues and eigenspaces	Sec. 5.5: 1bc, 2, 4, 5                                   Sec. 5.6: 3
36	15-Apr	Fri	6.3	Diagonalization	Sec. 6.1: 1aegi, 2, 3, 4, 6, 13, 19
37	18-Apr	Mon		Project presentations…
38	20-Apr	Wed		handout on powers via diagonalization
39	22-Apr	Fri			Sec. 6.3: 1bd, 2bd, 3bd, 4, 17
40	25-Apr	Mon	5.2	handout on orthogonal complements	project papers due
41	27-Apr	Wed
42	29-Apr	Fri		class party; class picture; last presentation; review
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1	17-Jan	Mon	1.1	Linear Systems
2	19-Jan	Wed	1.2	Row Echelon Form	handout (don't turn in)
3	21-Jan	Fri	"	systematic solutions	Sec. 1.1: 1c,2c,3bd,4bd,5b,6bd,7,10
4	24-Jan	Mon	1.3	Matrix Algebra	Sec. 1.2: 1ace2acde,3ace,4ace,5b,6a,8,10,13
5	26-Jan	Wed	"	more matrix algebra	(nothing due Wednesday)
6	28-Jan	Fri	1.4	More matrix algebra, and Elementary Matrices	Sec. 1.3: 1adefgh, 2(just say which, don't multiply), 4c, 7b, 10, 11, 13ab, 20*, 21*, 23
7	31-Jan	Mon	"	more elem. matrices	(nothing due Monday)
8	2-Feb	Wed	2.1	Determinants	Sec. 1.4: 1,2,3c,6,8; also 9aeg,11a,12,20
9	4-Feb	Fri	2.2	More determinants	(nothing due Friday)
10	7-Feb	Mon	2.3	Cramer's rule	Sec. 2.1: 1,2,3(all),4ac,5,6     Sec..2.2:.1,2a,3abd,4,7(all)
11	9-Feb	Wed	3.1	Vector Spaces!	Sec. 2.3: 1bd,2bd,5,6
12	11-Feb	Fri	"	more vector spaces	Sec. 3.1: 4, 8.  Also: Is the set of all functions from R to R a vector space?
13	14-Feb	Mon	3.2	subspaces thru p.136	Sec. 3.1: 1,2,10,11,12
14	16-Feb	Wed		review	Sec. 3.2: 1cd, 2ab, 3bc (triangular=UT), 5a
15	18-Feb	Fri		in-class exam
16	21-Feb	Mon	3.2	Special subspaces
17	23-Feb	Wed	3.3	Linear independence (no Wronskians)
18	25-Feb	Fri	3.4	Basis and dimension	Sec. 3.2: 4ad,9(all),10abc,11,12ab*,18*
19	28-Feb	Mon		more dimension
20	2-Mar	Wed			Sec.3.3: 1ac,2bd,4c,5ab*,6,11,13*
21	4-Mar	Fri	pp. 118, 25?, 21	Applications: Codes, Traffic, Card shuffling
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