330 LINEAR ALGEBRA I (3+0) 3 credits
Systems of linear equations; matrix algebra; vector spaces: linear independence, bases, dimension, vector subspace configuration; linear maps, their matrix representations and structure theorems. Prerequisite: MATH 283.
Fall 2004
8 Quizzes 5 points each (drop 1)
9 Homework Assignments 5 points each (drop 1)
Recitation/Participation 25 points
3 Exams 50 points each
1 Final Exam 100 points
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350 points total
# Date Chapter Topic
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1 Aug 23 1.1 Vectors and Linear Combinations
2 Aug 25 1.2 Lengths and Dot Products
3 Aug 27 Recitation and Quiz 1
4 Aug 30 2.1 Vectors and Linear Equations
5 Sep 1 2.2-2.3 Elimination Using Matrices
Final date for adding classes; changing from letter grade to S/U;
changing from S/U to letter grade; changing from audit to credit.
Final date for late registration and paying registration fees; to
receive 100 percent refund if completely withdrawing from the
university; to receive refunds for dropping individual classes.
6 Sep 3 Recitation and Quiz 2
Sep 6 2.4 Rules for Matrix Operations
Labor Day Holiday. Offices closed/ No classes
7 Sep 8 2.5 Inverse Matrices
8 Sep 10 2.6 Elimination and LU Factorization
9 Sep 13 2.7 Transposes and Permutations (postpone)
10 Sep 15 Recitation and Quiz 3
11 Sep 17 EXAM 1 (covers 1.1-2.6)
12 Sep 20 3.1 Spaces of Vectors
13 Sep 22 3.2 The Nullspace
14 Sep 24 3.3 The Rank and Row Reduced Forms
15 Sep 27 3.4 The Solution to Ax=b
16 Sep 29 3.5 Independence, Basis and Dimension
17 Oct 1 Recitation and Quiz 4
18 Oct 4 3.5 ...continued
19 Oct 6 3.6 Dimensions of the Four Subspaces
20 Oct 8 Review
21 Oct 11 EXAM 2
22 Oct 13 4.1 Orthogonality of the Four Subspaces
23 Oct 15 4.2 Projections
Final date for dropping classes.
24 Oct 18 4.2 ...continued
25 Oct 20 4.3 Least Squares Approximations
26 Oct 22 Recitation and Quiz 5
27 Oct 25 4.4 Orthogonal Bases and Gram-Schmidt
28 Oct 27 4.4 ...continued
Oct 29
Nevada Day Holiday (observed). Offices closed/ No classes.
29 Nov 1 5.1 Properties of Determinants
30 Nov 3 5.2 Permutations and Cofactors
31 Nov 5 Cofactors, Recitation
32 Nov 8 5.3 Quiz 6, Cramer's Rule and Inverses
33 Nov 10 Volumes, Review
Nov 11
Veteran's Day Holiday. Offices closed/ No classes.
34 Nov 12 EXAM 3
35 Nov 15 6.1 Introduction to Eigenvalues
36 Nov 17 6.2 Diagonalizing a Matrix
37 Nov 19 6.4 Symmetric Matrices
38 Nov 22 Recitation and Quiz 7
39 Nov 24 6.5 Positive Definite Matrices
Nov 25
Thanksgiving Day Holiday. Offices closed/ No classes.
Family Day Holiday. Offices closed/ No classes.
40 Nov 29 6.6 Similar Matrices
41 Dec 1 6.7 Singular Value Decomposition
42 Dec 3 Recitation and Quiz 8
Dec 4
Winter Commencement is held in Lawlor Events Center.
43 Dec 6 Review