Introduction to Linear Algebra

MAT 211, Section 3, Spring 2008

Contact:

Phone: (631) 632-8255; Fax 632-7631
Email: myonghi@math.sunysb.edu

 Instructor:

Myong-Hi (Nina) Kim

Office: Math 3-109

Office Hours:

Tuesday 2:45-4:15, Wednesday 9:30-10:30

 

Recitation: Problem Solving

on every Thursday 3pm-4pm Life Science Library Room L-3

Help by all MAT 211 staffs

 

Available to MAT211 students

Math Learning Center in room SL240A Math Tower, Free tutor available in all mathematics subjects

 

Please check your blackboard frequently for announcement, hint for homeworks etc.

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Homework stuff

Syllabus, Schedule

Exam Related

 

#HWAssignment

Syllabus

Midterm 1: Review 1, Review1Solution

Review2: OpenEndVersionWebwork

Midterm II

Material To Know

See BBL if the link does not work.

Solution

 

 


 

Recitations

A recitation class is now on! Day and time: Thursday 3:00-4:00pm. Place: Life Science Library, room L-3

Day of

Instructor

Topics

Th 2/21

Myong-hi Kim

Linear systems

Th 2/28

Tanvir Prince

Linear maps

Th 3/6

Julia Viro

Kernel and image, bases, dimension

Office Hours and Locations.

Instructor

Day and time

Office in Math Tower

Tanvir Prince (lecturer, section 1)

W 10:00-11:00am
W 11:00am-1:00pm

2-121
MLC

Julia Viro (lecturer, section 2)

TuTh 4:00-5:15pm
Th 10:00-11:00am

4-102
MLC

Myong-Hi Kim (lecturer, section 3)

Tu 2:45-4:15 pm
W 9:30-10:30 am

3-109

Zhiyu Tian (grader)

MW 5:15-6:15pm
Th 5:00-6:00pm

S-240C
MLC

 

Math Leaning Center

 

Math Learning Center

Day and Evening

SL240A

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

 

10:00-11:00 (Viro, MLC)

9:30-10:30 (Kim, 3-109)

10:00-11:00 (Prince, 2-121)

 

 

 

11:00-1:00 (Prince, MLC)

 

 

2:45-4:15(Kim, 3-109)

 

 

5:15-6:16(Tian S-240C)

4:00-5:15 (Viro, 4-102)

5:15-6:16(Tian S-240C)

4:00-5:15 (Viro, 4-102)

 

 


MAT 211 (Introduction to Linear Algebra) Section 3

Spring 2008


 
Schedule (tentative):   The following is the basic syllabus. Please read the relevant parts of the book before class.

Day of

Homework due

Sections Covered

January 29

 

1.1 Introduction to Linear Systems

January 31

Half Homework 1

1.2 (Matrices, Vectors, and Gauss-Jordan Elimination)

February 5

Half Homework 1

1.3 (On the Solutions of Linear Systems; Matrix Algebra)

February 7

 

2.1 (Introduction to Linear Transformations And Their Inverses)

February 12

Homework 2

2.2 (Linear Transformations in Geometry)

February 19HWAssignment

 

2.3 (The Inverse of a Linear Transformation)

2.4 (Matrix Products)

February 21

Homework 3

2.4 (Matrix Products)

February 26

 

3.1 (Image and Kernel of a Linear Transformation)

February 28

Homework 4

3.2 (Subspaces of R^n; Bases and Linear Independence)

March  4

 

Review and 3.3 (The Dimension of a Subspace of R^n)

March 6

Homework 5

Exam I (from 1.1 up to and including 3.2 and dimension from Section3.3)

March 11

 

3.3 and 3.4 (Coordinates);

March 13

Homework 5

4.1 (Introduction to Linear Spaces)

March 18

 

Springr Recess

March 20

 

Springr Recess

March 25-April 1

Homework 6

4.2 (Linear Transformations and Isomorphisms)

4.3 (The Matrix of a Linear Transformation)

April 3

 

Review Section 4.1-4.3

6.1 (Introduction to Determinants)

April 8

Homework 7

6.2 (Properties of the Determinant)

April 10

 

6.3 (Geometrical Interpretations of the Determinant; Cramer's Rule)

 

 

Review

April 15


Exam II ( from 3.4 up to and including 6.3)

April 17

 Homework 8

Ch 7.1: Dynamical systems and eigenvectors

April 22


7.2 (Finding the Eigenvalues of a Matrix)

April 22/24


7.3 (Finding the Eigenvectors of a Matrix)

April 24


7.4 (Diagonalization)

April 29

 Homework 9

5.1 (Orthogonal Projections and Orthonormal Bases)

May 1

 

5.2 (Gram-Schmidt Process and QR Factorization)

May 6


5.3 (Orthogonal Transformations and Orthogonal Matrices)

May 8

 Homework 10

Review

May 13


Review

May 15


Final Exam (Cumulative)



 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homework Assignment:

 

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Problems

Due Date

Homework 1

§1.1: 1,3,7,11,12,13,20,38,40

§1.2:1, 5, 6, 11, 20, 22,34,35,

§1.3:1, 5 , 6,10,20,21,29,30, 36, 38, 55, 57, Chapter Exercise: 1 through 10

Half 1/31/08

 

Half 2/5/08

 

Solutions to Selected Homework 1

 

Homework 2

§2.1: 7

§2.2: 29,42

2/26/08

Homework 3

§2.3: 40,48

§2.4:19,20,36,76

2/26/08

 

Solutions to Selected Homework 2 and 3

 

Homework 4

§3.1: 30, 34, 51

§ 3.2: 2,6,8, 34, 36, 46

3/4

 

Midterm I

 

 

Solutions to Selected Homework 5 and 6

Midterm I

Homework 5

§3.3:22, 28 30, 45, 46

 

3/13

Homework 6

§3.4:12, 16, 26, 28, 44, 47, 56, 62

4/1

Homework 7

Show all your work.

§ 4.1: 4,6, 25, 30

§ 4.2:6,52

§ 4.3:1

4/8

 

Solutions to Selected Homework 7

 

Homework 8

§ 6.1: 10, 18,30,44

§ 6.2:35, 47,.59

§ 6.3: 2,13, 30

4/17 

 

Solutions to Selected Homework 8

 

Homework 9

§ 7.1: 8, 42
§ 7.2: 4, 32, 44

4/29

Homework 10

§ 5.1: 16, 17

§ 5.2: 14, 34

 

 5/8