·  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, Laundry Bldg 202, dan, dmmaronc@ncsu.edu
         Help is also available in the Tutorial Help Center, Math Myltimedia Center, SAS 2105
     Lecture Hours: TH, 8:30-9:30  Classroom: RD 321
       Phone Number: 513-3584

2. Textbook:
     Introduction to Linear Algebra, by Gilbert Strang, 4th ed., Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 2009

3. Scheduled exams/quizzes: There are scheduled exames and quizzes plus ad hoc quizzes during the course.
     4 scheduled hourly in-class tests:  1) H 9/10;  2) H 10/1;  3) H 10/22; 4) H 11/19

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

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

5. Tutorial Service: Mathematics Multimedia Center, SAS 2105, schedule

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

2.1-2.7  Introduction, Linear equations, matrices, Gauss Eliminations
3.1-3.6  Vector spaces and subspaces, bases, dim of 4 subspaces
5.1-5.3 Determinants (short treatment), Cramer's rule
4.1-4.6, 1.2  inner products, Orthogonality, least Squares, Gram-Schmidt process
6.1-6.2, 6.4-6.6  Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagnolization
6.3 Application-Differential Equations

Homework Assignment:

2.1: 5,11, 19 2.2:13,19 2.3:25, 2.4: 21. 2.5: 3, 10, 23
2.6: 7, 15, 19. 2.7: 13, 16, 21, 34.
3.1: 5, 19, 20; 3.2: 2, 4, 8, 9, 22, 3.3: 3, 7, 15
3.4: 4, 6, 8, 30. 3.5: 2, 6, 20, 3.6: 3, 6, 18.
4.1: 3, 12, 14, 21; 4.2: 1, 3, 6, 11; 4.3: 1, 5, 20;
4.4: 5, 8, 11, 14, 15, 21, 22
5.1: 1, 14
5.2: 2, 11, 15, 19
5.3: 6, 17, 18
6.1: 1, 6, 13, 15, 28
6.2: 1, 4, 9, 19, 33
6.3: 1, 4, 8

Test 1, Test2, Test3, Test4


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