Math 351:
Elementary Linear Algebra

Syllabus
Textbook Linear Algebra: Ideas and Applications by R. Penney,

John Wiley & Sons Inc., ISBN # 0-471-18179-X.

Lectures

MWF 8:30-9:20 am, LAEB B222.

Office hours

MWTh 9:30-10:20 am or by appointment, Room 632 (Math. Bldg.).

Policy The final grade for the course will be based on:

- two midterms (100 points each);
- comprehensive final exam (200 points);
- daily homework assignments + (possible) quizzes (100 points).

Homework assignmebt will be collected and some of the problems on each homework assigment will be graded. No late homework will be accepeted unless there is a valid excuse for missing class such as illness or official university activities.

Students are expected to attend every class and to read the appropriate sections of the text before coming to class.
Attendance and active participation to class life will be also taken into consideration when computing the final grade.

All exams are closed-book. No cheat-sheets and notes are allowed. You must bring your picture I.D. card to every exam. Make-up exams will be given only in case of an emergency or if a valid excuse is given and verified in advance.

Matlab Matlab is a scientific package with a matrix analysis foundation developed,
mantained, and marketed by The MathWorks, Natick, MA. Because it is widely used in the engineering community and increasingly used in university engineering, science, and mathematics curricula, Matlab is specifically described when machine computation issues come up.

Throughout the course there will be mention of Matlab approaches to problems and some exercises will be inconvinient to do without a machine of some kind. However, most of the exercises are designed for paper and pencil computation and their purpose is to reinforce the learning of the material. In many situations, a paper and pencil approach will be different from a machine computation approach: thinking about both approaches will strengthen your understanding of the subject you are about to learn.

Important dates Last day for a student to drop a course without it being recorded: Jan. 26, 1998,
5:00 pm.

Last day for a student to drop a course without a grade: Feb. 9, 1998, 5:00 pm.

Last day for a student to drop a course with a passing or failing grade: Mar. 23, 1998, 5:00 pm.

ODOS Program Students who have been certified by the Office of the Dean of Students-Adaptive

Programs as eligible for academic adjustments should go to MATH 242 and request an Information Sheet for this semester, that explains how to proceed this semester to get these adjustments made in Mathematics courses. This should be done during the first week of classes. Only students who have been certified by the ODOS-Adaptive Programs and who have requested ODOS to send their certification letter to their instructor are eligible for academic adjustments.

Students who are currently undergoing an evaluation process to determine whether they are eligible for academic adjustments, are encouraged to find out now what procedures they will have to follow when they are certified, by requesting the above mentioned Information Sheet from MATH 242.

Large print copies of the Information Sheet are available from MATH 242 upon request.

Course Outline The following is a tentative plan for this course.

Page and section numbers refer to the text Linear Algebra: Ideas and Applications, by R. Penney.

Lesson Section Page Problems
1 1.1 page 11 1bc, 2ab, 3ab, 4, 6, 8b, 9, 12bd, 13, 15.
2-3 1.2 page 24 1a, 3, 4, 5c, 7, 12, 13, 14, 18.
4-5 1.3 page 38 1, 4, 5abcd, 6, 7ab, 8a, 9, 10.
6 1.4 page 50 1a, 2a, 3, 4ab, 5e, 6, 7a, 8, 9, 11, 13.
7-8 1.5 page 66 1ab, 2(4a, 4b), 3ab, 4ab, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21c, 23, 25, 27, 30;
page 73 On Line: 1, 2, 4abcde.
9-10 2.1 page 88 1abc, 2, 5, 7(5), 8, 9, 10;
page 91 On Line: 1, 3, 4.
11-12 2.2 page 103 1, 3, 4, 6a, 7, 8, 11, 13a, 15, 17ab, 19, 20.
13-14 2.3 page 129 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15.
15-16 REVIEW and EXAM I.
17-18 3.1 page 142 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 19a, 20, 25.
19-20 3.2 page 157 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 14, 15, 18, 22, 26
21-22 3.3 page 168 1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17.
23-24 3.4 page 177 1, 2abcdh, 3abcdh, 6, 9, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 23;
page 182 On Line: 1, 2.
25-26 4.1 page 210 1ab, 2, 3, 6, 10ab, 12ab.
27-28 4.2 page 224 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13.
29-30 4.4 page 250 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12.
31-32 REVIEW and EXAM II
33 5.1 page 277 1abcde, 2abcde, 4, 8.
34 5.2 page 286 1abcd, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14.
35-36 6.1 page 305 1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16;
page 308 On Line: 1.
37-38 6.2 page 318 1, 3, 4, 6ab, 8, 9, 10, 11.
39-40 6.5 page 354 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12.
41-42
43-44 REVIEW and FINAL EXAM.

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