This is the homepage for the Summer 2010 Linear Algebra group contract. In the first session, we’ll meet for this subject on Mondays at 3pm and on Wednesdays at 1pm. In the second session, we’ll schedule each meeting separately.
Textbook: We’re using the text Linear Algebra, 2nd edition, by Hoffman and Kunze. In the first 5 weeks (4 credits), we’ll work through the first 5 or 6 (hopefully 6) chapters; in the second 5 weeks (4 more credits), we’ll work through the rest of the book. We should get through about a chapter a week, but move more quickly through the first two chapters because much of the material is either review or fairly easy.
Homework: we’ll use the turn-in system, so each time we meet you’ll submit one problem for grading. You’ll maintain a portfolio of your work on the problems you don’t hand in; I’ll review your completed portfolio at the end when I write your evaluation. Homework assignments appear below.
Exams: We’ll have one take-home exam for each 4 credits, to be handed out in weeks 5 and 10.
Here are the assigned problems, by date due and by section:
- Due Wednesday, June 23:
1.2: 3, 4, 6
1.3: 2, 3, 5, 7
1.4: 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 - Due Monday, June 28:
1.5: 3, 4, 5, 7
1.6: 1, 4, 6, 8
2.1: 6, 7
2.2: 1, 2, 4, 9 - Due Wednesday, June 30:
2.3: 2, 5, 7, 14
2.4: 1, 4, 7
2.6: 3, 4, 6, 7 (if this assignment is too long to do by Wednesday, we’ll roll part of it over to next Monday) - Due Wednesday, July 7 (we’re meeting Wednesday & Friday this week instead of Monday & Wednesday):
3.1: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11
3.2: 2, 6, 9, 11
3.3: 2, 6 - Due Friday, July 9 (we’re meeting at 11am):
3.4: 2, 3, 5, 8, 10
3.5: 1, 3, 5, 12 (It’s OK if you don’t have this all done by Friday, since I didn’t put it up until Thursday evening. Sorry!) - Due Monday, July 12:
3.6: 1, 3
3.7: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 - Due Wednesday, July 14:
4.2: 1, 3, 7, 8
4.3: 1, 3, 5
4.4: 4
4.5: none, but you still need to read the section - Due Monday, July 19:
5.2: 8, 9, 11, 12
5.3: 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 - Due Wednesday, July 21 (but we’re not meeting a second time this week; this is just the next assignment):
5.4: 2, 4, 5, 6, 10
5.5: read the section
5.6: read the section
5.7: read the section - Due Thursday, July 29: THE TAKE-HOME FINAL for Linear Algebra, Part I (to be handed out on Monday, July 19).
- Also due Thursday, July 29:
6.2: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 13
6.3: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7
6.4: 1, 2, 7, 8, 11 - Due Thursday, August 5 (when we’re meeting at 12pm):
6.5: 1, 3
6.6: 1, 5, 6
6.7: 2, 3, 4
6.8: 1, 2