Math 261: Linear Algebra

Fall 2007

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: Wednesday 8:00-10:00, December 19. Section 2: Tuesday 4:00 - 6:00, December 18.

Other Materials

• Syllabus for section 1 (61KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Syllabus for section 2 (62KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Wiki quick reference (46KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Least squares project (85KB PDF) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

Wiki assignments for Section 2 are due every Friday night

9/12: Homework #1 due

Section 1.1: 1, 4, 6, 7

9/19: Homework #2 due

Section 1.2: 1a-d, 4, 6a,b, 10a, 20, 25
Section 1.3: 1, 3a,e, 5a,b,c, 12, 13, 29a,b
Section 1.4: 1a,b, 2a,c

9/26: Homework #3 due

Section 1.3: 6a,c,e
Section 1.4: 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 exercise

10/3: Homework #4 due

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
Section 3.1: 2a,c,g,i, 8, 9
Section 3.2: 3a,f, 7

10/5

Exam I

10/10: Homework #5 due

Section 3.3: 1, 4ab, 5ab, 6ab, 8ab, 18, 25
Section 3.4: 9abf

10/17: Homework #6 due

Section 3.4: 2, 11a, 15, 16, 24a, 38
Section 3.5: 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 21, 25

10/24: Homework #7 due

Section 4.2: 8, 9, 11, 15a,b, 19a,b, 21, 29, 34
Section 4.3: 14, 15, 22

11/7: Homework #8 due

Section 5.1: 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 16, 20, 29
Section 5.2: 3, 5b, 6a, 7, 10a, 14a,b,c
Section 5.3: 2ab, 3a, 4b, 6, 8a, 18, 24a

11/9

Exam II

11/14: Homework #9 due

Section 5.4: 1ab, 2, 4ab, 5, 7ab, 11, 12, 13, 18, 33

11/28: Homework #10 due

Section 5.5: 3ab, 6ab, 7, 11a, 15
Section 5.6: 2ac, 5, 11, 18, 19
Section 6.1: 3, 4, 8b, 9ad, 17a, 19, 20, 23
Section 6.2: 6, 7, 8a, 14, 15, 19, 35

12/5: Homework #11 due

Section 7.1: 1ab, 2ab, 3ab, 4bc, 5bc, 10, 11, 12, 20

12/12: Homework #12 due

Section 7.2: 9, 10, 11, 18, 20
Section 6.5: 6abc, 8ab, 12

12/14: Least squares project due

 

Homework #13 (not collected)

Section 8.1: 3, 8, 15, 32
Section 8.2: 5, 6 (R(T) is the range), 9c, 11, 14, 29
Section 8.3: 4, 6, 7abd, 9
Section 8.4: 1a, 2a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 19ab

12/18, 4-6 PM

Final Exam for section 2 (MWF 1-2)

12/19, 8-10 AM

Final Exam for section 1 (MWF 11-12)