· Syllabus for MA 305, Fall 2009

· Linear Algebra

1. Instructor: Dr. N. Jing
       Office: SAS 3142 Office Hours:  TH 3:00--4:00

TA Office Hours (TBA):    Monday Wednesday 9-10, Lounge 202, dan, dmmaronc@ncsu.edu
         Help is also available in the Tutorial Help Center on the first floor of SAS

     Lecture Hours: TH, 8:30-9:30 Classroom: RD 321
       Phone Number: 513-3584 . 

2. Textbook:
     Elementary Linear Algebra, by Richard Hill, Harcourt, 1996.

3. Scheduled exams/quizzes: There are scheduled exames and quizzes plus ad hoc quizzes during the course.
Three scheduled hourly in-class tests and 1-2 quizzes: 1) H 9/10;  2) H 10/1;  3) H 10/22; 4) H 11/22

Final exam: Tuesday, December 15, 8-11 am

4. Grading Policy:
         Attendance/Quiz 5% Tests: 60% Final Exam: 35%

5. Tutorial Service:
          N/A

6. Topics and estimated days allocated to each topics and Homework Assignment :

1.1-1.6 Introduction, Linear equations, matrices, Gauss Eliminations

2.1-2.2 Determinants

2.3-2.5 Cramer's rule, applications

3.1-3.2 Vector spaces in 2, 3, n-dimensions

3.4-3.6 Subspaces, linear dependence, rank

3.7-3.8 Rank, coordinates and bases

4.1-4.6 Linear transformations, inner products, least Squares, Gram-Schmidt process

4.7 Similarity

5.2-5.4 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagnolization

5.5 Application-Fibonacci sequences

5.6 Application-Differential Equations

Homework Assignment:

1.1: 29, 1.2:7,11,21,27. 1.3:7,9,21,25. 1.4:9,11,15,29,35. 1.5: 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 17, 27.
2.1: 7,11,13,15,23. 2.2: 11, 17, 15. 2.3: 13, 17, 25, 34. 2.4: 9, 13, 17,25, 29, 31.
3.1: 3, 9, 16, 21. 3.2: 15, 18, 21, 27. 3.4: 3, 13, 21, 25, 33, 37, 43, 45.  3.5: 2, 4, 9, 13, 15, 19, 25, 27. 3.6: 1, 3, 9, 13, 15, 19, 25, 27, 35.
3.7: 3, 7, 13, 15, 17, 23. 3.8: 17, 19, 25
4.1: 7, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 27, 35. 4.2: 3, 25. 4.3: 3, 7, 11, 17, 23. 4.4: 3, 7, 11, 19, 21, 23. 4.5: 1, 5, 9, 13, 17. 4.7: 1, 3, 13, 25.
5.1: 15, 27, 29, 33, 35, 37. 5.2: 8, 11, 13, 17, 19, 34. 5.3: 3, 7, 9, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23.
5.4: 3, 9, 15, 19. 5.6: 1, 3, 7, 11.

Sample Tests:
Test 1 (2005), Test 2 (2005), Test 3 (2005), Test 4 (2005), Final (2005).

More Sample Tests:
Test 1 (2006) solution, Test 2(2006) solution, Test 3 (2006), Quiz (2006).

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