Math 308 Spring 2016 Sections F and G

Instructor
Ebru Bekyel	contact	Office hours: MWF 2:00-3:00 in PDL-C 422.

Textbook and Homework

The textbook is Linear Algebra with Applications by Jeffrey Holt. You will submit your assignments online through webassign. You login with your UWNetID. You have to purchase the access code, either online or through the UW Bookstore. The assignments will show up eight days before they are due.

Grading

There will be two midterms, one final exam and homework assignments. The homework assignments are 15%, midterms are 50% and the final is 35% of your grade. I do not grant extensions on homework assignments. The exams grades will be posted in https://catalyst.uw.edu.

Week

Week of

Announcements and Schedule of Lectures

Applications and Diversions

You are not responsible for any of the links in this column.

1

03/28

Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.4 and 2.1

First assignment due on Friday, April 1^st

Cryptography using linear algebra

2

04/04

Sections 2.2 and 2.3

Graph Theory

3

04/11

Sections 3.1 and 3.2

Review for Midterm 1 and the solutions to the two theory review questions

Several applications

4

04/18

Review and Section 3.3

Midterm 1 on Wednesday, April 20

Solutions to the Midterm: Section F and Section G

More Applications of Linear Algebra

5

04/25

Sections 4.1 and 4.2

Here is a handout on subspaces. It has a summary of the definition and the main theorem and many questions with answers at the end.

Linear algebra and structural engineering

6

05/02

Sections 4.3, 5.1 and 5.2

Linear programming

7

05/09

Sections 6.1, 6.3 and 6.4

Here is Midterm 2 review.

It won’t help you much, but it is fun to read if you like manga.

8

05/16

Review and Section 8.1

Midterm 2 on Wednesday, May 18

Solutions to Midterm 2

If you feel comfortable with the material we are covering and would like a more theoretical approach check out Linear Algebra Done Wrong. It talks about vector spaces other than Rⁿ. Topics overlap up to Chapter 5, Section 3.

9

05/23

Sections 8.2 and 8.5

Picture of a projection of a vector u on to a two dimensional subspace S with its orthogonal basis {v1,v2}. Click to enlarge.

Do you keep your laptop on during lectures? It may not be a good idea.

10

05/30

No class on Monday

Review

Here is Review 3, covering Sections 81., 8.2 and 8.5 after the second midterm. Also, look at the reviews for the midterms and make sure you can do all of the types of problems named in the Applications part using the tools in the Operations. If you need to, review the relevant sections and do some practice from the book.

If you can get through this set of questions, you are good to go for the final exam! Here are the answers.

FINAL EXAM

Section F on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, 2:30-4:20 pm, CDH 717

Section G on Thursday, June 9, 2016, 8:30-10:20, CDH 139