Math 261: Linear Algebra

Fall 2008

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: M 2-3, W 9-11, 2-3, F 12-1

Textbook: Anton, Elementary Linear Algebra (ninth edition).

Class Meetings: Section 1: MWF 11:00 - 11:50, Jordan 170. Section 2: MWF 1:00 - 2:00, Frey 349

Final Exam: Section 1: Monday December 15, 10:30 - 12:30. Section 2: Tuesday December 16, 10:30 - 12:30

Other Materials

• Syllabus (61KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Derive data for least-square example: [0, 0; 1, 3; 2, 2; 3, 3; 5, 6; 6, 7; 7, 6]
  A := [0, 1; 1, 1; 2, 1; 3, 1; 5, 1; 6, 1; 7, 1]
  b := [0; 3; 2; 3; 6; 7; 6]

Calendar

9/10: Homework #1 due

Section 1.1: 1, 4, 6, 7
Section 1.2: 1a-d, 4a, 6a,d, 20, 25

9/17: Homework #2 due

Section 1.2: 4b-d, 6b,c, 10a
Since I forgot to post the whole assignment, most of it got moved to next week- start it early.

9/24: Homework #3 due

Section 1.3: 1, 3a,e, 5a,b,c, 6a,c,e, 12, 13, 29a,b
Section 1.4: 1a,b, 2a,c, 5, 7 (use the 2x2 inverse formula), 14, 16, 20, 21
Section 1.5: 1, 3, 5, 6a,b, 7a,b, 10, 12
Section 1.6: 4, 9, 21
Lab assignment

10/1: Homework #4 due

Section 1.7: 1, 3, 4, 6, 15, 16a, 22a
Section 2.1: 2a,b, 5, 6, 9, 29
Section 2.2: 2, 4, 5, 12, 19, 20a
Section 2.3: 4, 5, 16, 20, 23

10/3: Exam I

Covers material through and including 9/29

10/8: Homework #5 due

Section 3.1: 2a,c,g,i, 8, 9
Section 3.2: 3a,f, 7
Section 3.3: 1, 4ab, 5ab, 6ab, 8ab, 18, 25

10/15: Homework #6 due

Section 3.4: 2, 9abf, 11a, 15, 16, 38
Section 3.5: 4, 5, 20, 21, 25

10/22: Homework #7 due

Section 3.5: 8, 10
Section 4.2: 8, 9, 11, 15a,b, 19a,b, 21, 26, 34
Section 4.3: 14, 15, 22

10/29: Homework #8 due

Section 5.1: 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 16, 20, 29
Section 5.2: 3, 5, 6a, 7, 10a, 14a,b,c

11/5: Homework #9 due

Section 5.3: 2ab, 3a, 4b, 5a, 8a, 18, 24a
Section 5.4: 1ab, 2, 4ab, 5, 7ab, 11, 12, 13, 18, 33
Section 5.5: 6ab

11/7: Exam II

Covers material through and including 11/3

11/12: Homework #10 due

Section 5.5: 3ab, 7, 11a, 15
Section 5.6: 2ac, 5, 11, 18, 19

11/19: Homework #11 due

Section 6.1: 3, 4, 8b, 9ad, 17a, 19, 20, 23
Section 6.2: 6, 7, 8a, 14, 15, 19, 35
Section 6.4: 3a,c
Section 9.3: 2

12/3: Homework #12 due

Section 7.1: 1ab, 2ab, 3ab, 4bc, 5bc, 10, 11, 12, 20
Section 7.2: 9, 10, 11, 18, 20
These additional problems (32KB PDF) LaTeX source

12/10: Homework #13 due

Section 6.5: 6abc, 8ab, 12
Section 8.1: 3, 6, 8, 23a, 32
Section 8.2: 5, 6, 9c, 11, 14, 29
Section 8.3: 4, 6, 7abd, 9

Final homework (not collected)

Section 8.4: 2a, 4a, 6a, 8a, 14
Section 8.5: 1, 3, 10, 11, 13a

12/15: Final exam (section 1)

10:30 - 12:30

12/16: Final exam (section 2)

10:30 - 12:30