Math 261: Linear Algebra

Fall 2006

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: M 9-10, 2-3; W 9-11; F 10-11

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

Class Meetings: Section A: MWF 11:00 - 12:00, Frey 345. Section B: MWF 1:00 - 2:00, Frey 349

Final Exam: Section A: Monday 10:30-12:30, December 11. Section B: Thursday 8:00-10:00, December 14.

Other Materials

• Syllabus (74KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Least squares example Derive file.

Coming Attractions

9/11: Homework #1 due

Section 1.1: 1, 4, 6, 7
Section 1.2: 1a-d, 4, 6a,b, 10a, 20, 25
Section 1.3: 1, 3a,e, 5a,b,c, 12b, 13, 29a,b

9/18: Homework #2 due

Section 1.3: 6a,c,e, 12
Section 1.4: 4a,b, 5, 7, 14, 16, 21
Section 1.5: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6a,b, 7a,b, 10
Section 1.6: 4, 7, 9, 21
Lab exercise

9/25: Homework #3 due

Section 2.1: 2a,b, 5, 6, 9
Section 2.2: 2, 4, 5, 12, 20a
Section 2.3: 4, 5, 16, 20
Section 3.1: 8
Section 3.2: 3a,f, 7

10/2: Homework #4 (not to be handed in)

Section 3.3: 1, 4ab, 5ab, 6ab, 8ab, 18, 25
Section 3.4: 2, 9abf, 11a, 15, 16, 38
Section 3.5: 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 21, 25

10/2

Exam I

10/16: Homework #5 due

Section 4.2: 8, 9, 11, 15a,b, 19a,b, 21, 26, 34
Section 4.3: 14, 15, 22
Section 5.1: 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 16, 20, 29
Section 5.2: 3, 5, 6a, 7, 10a, 14a,b,c

10/23: Homework #6 due

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

10/30: Homework #7 due

Section 5.4: 12, 13, 18, 33
Section 5.5: 3ab, 5a, 6ab, 7, 11a, 15
Section 5.6: 2ac, 3ac, 5, 11, 15

11/6: Homework #8 (not to be handed in)

Section 6.1: 3, 4, 8b, 9ad, 17a, 19, 20
Section 6.2: 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 19, 35
Section 6.3: 3, 4, 5, 8, 14, 16, 35

11/6

Exam II

11/20: Homework #9

Section 6.5: 6abc, 8ab, 12
Section 6.6: 2, 3, 4a, 13
Section 7.1: 1ab, 2ab, 3ab, 4bc, 5bc, 10, 11, 12
Section 7.2: 9, 10, 11, 18, 20
Section 7.3: 3, 4, 5, 11, 15

11/27: Homework #10

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

12/4: Homework #11

Section 8.4: 1a, 2a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 12, 18abc, 19ab
Section 8.5: 1, 3, 8, 10

12/11: Homework #12 (not to be handed in)

Section 9.3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10

12/11

Final exam for section A, 10:30-12:30

12/14

Final exam for section B, 8:00-10:00AM