Math 250 - Syllabus and General Information, Fall 2009


Lecture   Date                                       Section Covered
1   1.1, 1.2 Matrices and Vectors
2   1.3 Systems of Linear Equations
3   1.4 Gaussian Elimination
4   1.6 Span of a Set of Vectors
5   1.7 Linear Dependence and Linear Independence
6   1.7, 2.1 Homogeneous Systems, Matrix Multiplication
7   2.1 Matrix Algebra; Quiz 1
8   2.3, App.E Invertibility and Elementary Matrices, Uniqueness of RREF
9    2.4, 2.5  Inverse of a Matrix, Partitioned Matrices and Block Multiplication
10   2.6  LU Decomposition of a Matrix; Review for the exam
11   Oct 8 Midterm Exam 1
12   3.1 Determinants; Cofactor Expansions
13   3.2 Properties of Determinants
14   4.1 Subspaces
15   4.2 Basis and Dimension
16   4.3 Column Space and Null Space of a Matrix
17   5.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; Quiz 2
18   5.2 Characteristic Polynomial
19   5.3 Diagonalization of a Matrix
20   5.5 Applications of Eigenvalues; Review for the exam
21   11/12 Midterm Exam 2
22   6.1 Geometry of Vectors; Projection onto a Line
23   6.2 Orthogonal Sets of Vectors; Gram - Schmidt Process; QR factorization
24   6.3 Orthogonal Projection; Othogonal Complements
25   6.4 Least Squares; Normal Equations; Quiz 3
26    6.5, 6.6 Orthogonal Matrices; Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices
27   6.6 Spectral Decomposition for Symmetric Matrices, Diagonalization of Quadratic Forms
28   Review for the Final Exam