Linear Algebra - Spring 2013

MWF 8:30am - 9:20am, Hayes Healy 229
Course website: www.nd.edu/~gszekely/LinearAlgebra.html

Instructor:

Gábor Székelyhidi
Email: gszekely (at) nd.edu
Office: 277 Hurley
Tel: (574) 631-7412

Office hours:

Tuesdays 2pm-3pm

Textbook:

Fraleigh, Beauregard - Linear Algbera, 3rd Edition.

Grading:

Homework 20%; Quizzes 20%; Midterms 30%; Final 30%

Quizzes:

There will be a short quiz roughly every second Friday, starting Jan 25. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped.

Midterms:

There will be two midterm exams during class, on Wednesday March 6 , and Friday April 5.

Final:

The final exam will be on Wednesday May 8, 8:00am - 10:00am.

Homework:

There will be weekly written assignments from the textbook, which can be found below along with the due date and time.

Calculators:

You will be allowed to use a scientific calculator (not a graphing calculator) throughout the course, although the use of a calculator is not required.

Honesty:

This class follows the binding Code of Honor at Notre Dame. The graded work you do in this class must be your own.

Syllabus

The schedule given below is only meant as a general guide, and the syllabus is likely to change as the course progresses.

Date Reading in Fraleigh-Beauregard Homework
Jan. 16, 18 §1.1, §1.2 HW 1:
§1.1: 2, 6, 15, 21, 25, 36
§1.2: 4, 10, 14, 16
due 1/23 in class
Jan. 21, 23, 25 §1.3, §1.4
Quiz 1 on 1/25 		HW 2:
§1.3: 4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 18, 32, 38, 42, 46
due 1/30 in class
Jan. 28, 30, Feb. 1 §1.4, §1.5 HW 3:
§1.3: 29, 44
§1.4: 2, 6, 10, 24, 41, 42, 56
due 2/6 in class
Feb. 4, 6, 8 §1.6, §1.7
Quiz 2 on 2/8 		HW 4:
§1.4: 40, 44
§1.5: 2(a), 6(a), 10, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26
due 2/13 in class
Feb. 11, 13, 15 §2.1 HW 5:
§1.5: 23, 30, 34
§1.6: 3, 4, 6, 18, 24, 26, 44
due 2/20 in class
Feb. 18, 20, 22 §2.2, §2.3
Quiz 3 on 2/22 		HW 6:
§1.6: 20, 32
§2.1: 4, 8, 10, 12, 24, 30
§2.2: 2, 14
due 2/27 in class
Feb. 25, 27, Mar. 1 §3.1, §3.2 No homework this week
Midterm review topics, problems and solutions
Mar. 4 §3.4, §3.5
Mar. 6 Midterm 1 Solutions
Mar. 8 §4.1 HW 7:
§2.3: 4, 6, 14, 22
§2.4: 6, 22
§3.1: 2, 3, 17
due 3/20 in class
Mar. 11, 13, 15 Spring break
Mar. 18, 20, 22 §4.2, §4.3, §4.4
Quiz 4 on 3/22 		HW 8:
§3.2: 1, 14, 27
§3.3: 8, 10
§3.4: 8, 22, 44
§4.2: 6, 8
due 3/27 in class
Mar. 25, 27 §5.1, §5.2 No homework this week
Midterm review topics, problems and solutions
Mar. 29, Apr. 1 Easter break
Apr. 3 §5.2, §5.3
Apr. 5 Midterm 2 Solutions HW 9:
§4.2: 26
§4.3: 10
§5.1: 2, 10, 18, 24, 38
§5.2: 2
due 4/12 in class
Apr. 8, 10, 12 §6.1, §6.2, §6.3
Quiz 5 on 4/12		 HW 10:
§4.3: 35, 38
§5.1: 25, 36, 39, 40
§5.2: 22
§5.3: 6
due 4/17 in class
Apr. 15, 17, 19 §6.4, §6.5 HW 11:
§6.1: 4, 6, 15, 16, 20, 25, 26, 29
due 4/24 in class
Apr. 22, 24, 26 §7.1, §7.2
Quiz 6 on 4/26		 HW 12:
§6.4: 1, 11, 16
§7.1: 3, 7, 9, 15
§7.2: 5
due 5/1 in class
Apr. 29, May 1 §8.1, §8.2
May 8 Final exam: 8:00am - 10:00am Practice final solutions.