Final Exam is on Monday, March 17th, 8:30 - 10:20 AMMATH 308B Winter, 2008
INSTRUCTOR: Ralph Greenberg, Padelford C-553
543-7648, greenber@math.washington.edu
OFFICE HOURS: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 1:00 - 2:15
Additional office hours will be announced from time to time
or can be arranged by appointment.
TEXT: Introduction to Linear Algebra, 5th Edition
Johnson, Riess, and Arnold
GRADING: There will be two exams during the quarter, each counting
25% of your grade. They will be announced at least one week in
advance. The final exam will cover all the topics which were
discussed during the quarter and will count 40%. It is scheduled for
Monday, March 17th, 8:30 - 10:20 AM. There will be weekly
homework assignments which will be partially graded and will count
10% of your grade. Late homeworks will not be accepted.
The course will cover most of chapters 1, 3 and 4 of the text.
There are two main topics in the course. The first topic is Matrices.
This will include the rank, the existence of inverses, determinants,
eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The second topic is Vector Spaces,
including a discussion of subspaces, dimension, and bases of a subspace.
Both of these topics are interconnected in many ways. The course will
end with a discussion of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices.
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
HOMEWORK SOLUTIONS: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
HANDOUTS AND SAMPLE EXAMS
LINKS TO WEBPAGES ABOUT APPLICATIONS