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Syllabus

Homework

Book Section	Exercises	Date Assigned	Date Collected
Section 1.1	Solutions: 1ab, 2	08/19	08/24
Section 1.1	Solutions: 3,4,5a-d,25ab,30,35,40,43	08/31	09/04
Section 1.2/1.3	Solutions: 1.2: 1,8a-d,14,15 Solutions: 1.3: 3a-e	08/31	09/04
Section 1.4	Solutions: 5a-e, 11, 12, 25, 27	09/09	09/14
Section 2.1	Solutions: 1acdg, 22	09/18	09/23
Section 2.2	Homework Examples Homework Worksheet	09/25	09/30
Section 2.3	Homework Worksheet Solutions: 1, 2, 3a	09/30	10/05
Section 3.1	Homework Worksheet Solutions: Part I, c and f	10/07	10/09
Section 3.2	Homework Worksheet	10/09	not collected
Section 3.3	3a,b,c	10/14	not collected
Section 4.1	1a,c,i	10/26	11/02
Section 4.2	1a,c,e	10/26	11/02
Section 4.3	5abc (finding inverses), 1-3 (Cramer’s Rule) Homework Solutions	11/02	11/09
Section 5.1	Homework Worksheet Homework Solutions	11/09	11/16
Section 5.2	(suggested problems) 1ab, 2abd	11/18	not collected

Handouts

Section 1.2/1.3 Solving Linear Systems	“Antiquated” Method Gaussian Method Quiz 3 Solution Solutions in Parametric Form
Exam I	Solutions
Calculator Resources	TI-85 TI-83 / TI-89 TI-89
Exam II	Practice Exam Practice Exam Solutions	Note: 3.3 (inverses) has not been covered in class, so a question like #17 will not be on exam II, but may be on the Final.
Section 4.2	Efficient Row Reduction …With Practice!
Section 5.1	Worksheet on Eigenvalue Application
Section 5.2	Worksheet on Diagonalization Application
Exam III	Practice Exam Practice Exam Solutions Exam III Solutions
Practice Final	Practice Final Practice Final Solutions

Quizzes

11. Quiz Wednesday November 18^th on diagonalization.

10. Quiz Wednesday November 11^th on characteristic polynomial, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

09. Quiz Wednesday November 6^th on Cramer’s Rule.

08. Quiz Monday November 2^nd on calculating a determinant using reduction.

07. Quiz Monday October 26^th on calculating a determinant using cofactor expansion.

06. Quiz Wednesday October 14^th on finding the described transformation.

05. Quiz Friday September 25^th on finding the basis for the span of a set.

04. Quiz Friday September 18^th on test for linear independence. (See HW 2.1 Ex 1d)

03. Quiz Wednesday September 2^nd on exercise #7a (in Section 1.2).

02. Quiz Wednesday August 26^th on finding span.

01. Quiz Friday August 19^th on commutativity and associativity of matrix addition. (See HW 1.1 Ex 2.)

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