Math 308 D, Spring 2008


Instructor: Emmanouil (Manolis) Milakis
Office: Padelford Hall C-332
E-mail: milakis@math.washington.edu
Office hours: Thursday 12-2 or by appointment.
Course Webpage: http://www.math.washington.edu/~milakis/Courses/308/308Spring08.htm

Text: Introduction to Linear Algebra (5th Edition) by Johnson, Reiss and Arnold. We will cover (most of) Chapters 1, 3 and 4.

Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:30-11:20 in CMU B006.

Exams: There will be two midterm exams and a final exam.

  • The first midterm is scheduled for Wednesday April 23rd.
  • The second midterm is scheduled for Wednesday May 21st.
  • Final Exam : JUNE 09, 2008, 8:30-10:20 in CMU B006.

 

Homework: Homework assignments are due on Mondays at the beginning of class (see homework Schedule below). Each student must turn in his/her own assignment.

 Homework Schedule

Grades: Course grades will be computed on the following basis:

  • Homework 15%,
  • Midterms 20% each,
  • Final exam 45%.

 

Calculator and notes policy in exams.  Calculators are NOT allowed. One 8 x 11.5 sheet of handwritten notes is allowed on the midterms (one side) and on the final exam (both sides ok). In each of homework assignments, midterms and final exams you have to show all your work and support your reasoning in order to get full credit.

 

 

Syllabus for Math 308 course offered at the University of Washington.

Calendar/Announcements: (check here for up-to-date information about the course)

5/9/2008         Linear Transformations. Examples  Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 3.7: 1, 3, 7, 18, 19, 26, 30.

5/7/2008         Orthogonal-Orthonormal Bases, Gram-Schmidt Method. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 3.6: 1, 6, 9, 15, 22.  

                       HW5 is posted in Homework Schedule and is due on Monday 5/12/2008.

5/5/2008         Basis and Dimension of a subspace. Examples  Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 3.5: 4, 10, 13, 26, 31, 37.

5/2/2008:        Basis of a subspace. Examples. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 3.4: 1, 5, 9, 11, 28, 33, 36.

4/30/2008:       Kernel and range of a matrix. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 3.3: 1, 3, 13, 17, 23, 29, 35.

4/28/2008        Subspaces, Span of a set of vectors. HW4 is posted in Homework Schedule and is due on Monday 5/5/2008.  Practice problems (not collected or graded),

                        Section 3.2: 1, 7, 9, 15, 27.

4/25/2008:      We solved problems from the first midterm. Introduction to the vector space R^n. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 3.1: 1, 3, 

                       5, 9, 13, 15, 23.

4/23/2008:      Midterm 1-Grades.

4/21/2008:      Review Session-Chapter 1. Extra Office Hours : Monday 4/21, 11:30-2:00 and Tuesday 4/22, 11:30-2:00.

4/18/2008:      The first midterm will cover Chapter 1 and is scheduled for Wednesday 4/23/2008 during lecture time in CMU B006. Please read the 

                       Calculator and notes policy above. You can find a midterm exam I gave during Winter 2007 here.

4/16/2008:      Properties on inverses. Examples. HW3 is posted in Homework Schedule and is due on Monday 4/21/2008.

4/14/2008:      Nonsingular matrices, Inverse of a matrix. Applications. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 1.8: 5, 7, 9, 27, 30. Section 1.9: 3, 9, 13, 26, 31, 46, 71, 74.

4/11/2008:      Linear Independence, Non-Singular matrices and applications. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 1.7: 1, 19, 39, 43, 53.

4/9/2008:        Matrix operations, transpose of a matrix and symmetric matrices. Examples. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 1.6: 1, 3, 9, 11,   

                       21, 29, 39, 45. HW2 is posted in Homework Schedule and is due on Monday 4/14/2008.

4/7/2008         Matrix operations and examples. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 1.4: 1, 3. Section 1.5: 1, 9, 17, 35, 41, 53, 61, 65.

4/4/2008:        Consistent-Inconsistent systems. Homogeneous Systems. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 1.3: 3, 7, 17, 23, 25.

                       HW1 is is due on Monday 4/7/2008.

4/2/2008:        Reduced Echelon form of a matrix. Gauss-Jordan Elimination. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 1.2: 9, 19, 21, 27, 35.

3/31/2008:       Instruction begins. Introduction to matrices and linear systems. Practice problems (not collected or graded), Section 1.1: 1, 2, 5, 7, 21, 25.