Schedule of Work --- Math 240 --- Spring 2013

Day Date Section in Lay Topic
Wednesday Jan 23 1.1 Systems of Linear Equations
Jan 25 1.2 Row Reduction and Echelon Forms
Monday Jan 28 1.3 Vector Equations
Jan 30 1.4 The Matrix Equation Ax= b
Feb 1 1.5 Solution Sets of Linear Systems
Monday Feb 4 1.7 Linear Independence
Feb 5 -- **Last day to drop with no record of the course on your transcript**
Feb 6 1.8 Introduction to Linear Transformations
Feb 8 1.9 The Matrix of a Linear Transformation
Monday Feb 11 2.1 Matrix Operations
Feb 12 MATLAB 1 Project 1 due in section
Feb 13 2.4,2.2 Partitioned Matrices; The Inverse of a Matrix
Feb 15 2.3 Characterizations of Invertible Matrices
Monday Feb 18 3.1 Introduction to Determinants
Feb 20 -- Review for Exam 1
Feb 22 Ch. 1 and 2 EXAM 1
Monday Feb 25 3.2 Properties of Determinants
Feb 27 3.3 Cramer's Rule, Volume, and Linear Transformations
Mar 1 4.1 Vector Spaces and Subspaces
Monday Mar 4 4.2 Null Spaces, Column Spaces, Linear Transformations
Mar 5 MATLAB 2 Project 2 due in section
Mar 6 4.3 WEATHER CLOSURE
Mar 8 4.3 Linear Independent Sets; Bases
Monday Mar 11 4.4 Coordinate Systems
Mar 13 4.5 The Dimension of a Vector Space
Mar 15 4.6 Rank
Monday Mar 18 -- Spring Break
Mar 20 -- Spring Break
Mar 22 -- Spring Break
Monday Mar 25 4.7 Change of Basis
Mar 27 5.1 Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues
Mar 29 5.2 The Characteristic Polynomial
Monday April 1 5.3 Diagonalization
April 3 -- Review for Exam 2
April 5 Ch. 3, Ch. 4, 5.1, 5.2 handouts* EXAM 2
Monday April 8 5.4 + 5.5 Eigenvectors and Linear Transformations + Complex
April 9 MATLAB 3 Project 3 due in section
April 10 -- **Last day to drop with a W**
April 10 6.1 Inner products, Length and Orthogonality
April 12 6.2 Orthogonal Sets
Monday April 15 6.3 Orthogonal Projections
April 17 6.4 The Gram-Schmidt Process
April 19 6.5 Least-Squares Problems
Monday April 22 6.6 Application to Linear Models
April 23 MATLAB 4 Project 4 due in section
April 24 7.1 Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices
April 26 7.2 Quadratic Forms
Monday April 29 7.3 Constrained Optimization
May 1 -- Review for Exam 3
May 3 Ch. 5 & 6 & 7.1 EXAM 3
Monday May 6 7.4 Singular Value Decomposition
Wednesday May 8 -- Review for Final Exam
Thursday May 9 -- Last Day of Class
Saturday May 11 Uniform Final Exam 1:30-3:30, Rooms TBA
Sunday May 12 Alternate Final Exam* 1:30-3:30, Room TBA

*The handouts mentioned for Exam 2 are the handouts posted on the course page:
"Similarity of two by two matrices" and "How matrices multiply finite dimensional volume".

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