Homepage for Math 250, Summer 2007


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Free tutoring is available through the Rutgers Learning Centers. For a list of what's being tutored and when and where, go to their website and click on the schedule for each of the campuses. You can even be tutored from home -- they provide real time online tutoring through "Knight Line".

Syllabus

LectureDateSections from TextTopics
16/251.1, 1.2, 1.3Matrices, Vectors, and Systems of Linear Equations
26/26 1.3, 1.4 Solving systems of linear equations, Gaussian Elimination
36/271.6, 1.7Span of a set of vectors, Linear dependence and independence
46/281.7QUIZ; Homogeneous Systems
57/2 2.1, 2.3 Matrix Algebra, Invertibility
67/32.3, 2.4 Invertibility and elementary matrices, Inverse of a Matrix
77/5 2.5 QUIZ; LU Decomposition
77/9 3.1, 3.2 Determinants, Cofactor Expansions, Properties of Determinants
97/11 3.2, 4.1 More properties of determinants, Subspaces
97/11 4.2, 4.3 Basis and Dimension, Column Space and Null Space of a Matrix
107/12Review   
127/16 Midterm   
127/175.1,5.2 Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, Characteristic Polynomial
137/185.3Diagonalization of a Matrix, Examples
147/19 5.5 QUIZ; Markov Chains
157/23 6.1 Geometry of Vectors, Orthogonal Projection onto a line
167/24 6.2 Orthogonal Sets of Vectors, Gram-Schmidt Process
177/25 6.3 Least Squares; Normal Equations, Orthogonal Projection matrices
187/26 6.4, 6.5 QUIZ; Orthogonal Matrices, Diagonalization of Symmetric matrices
207/30 6.5 Spectral Decomposition for Symmetric Matrices, Diagonalization of Quadratic Forms
217/31 Review   
228/1 Review   
238/2 Final Exam  

Homework problems

The homework problems are taken from the course textbook.
  • Homework problems
    Last modified 06/26/07