Math 22 - Linear Algebra & Applications - Summer 2012

Dartmouth College


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The following is a tentative syllabus for the course. This page will be updated irregularly.
On the other hand, the weekly syllabus contained in the Homework Assignments page will always be accurate.

We will not meet on Friday June 22 nor Saturday June 23. The first day of classes will be on Monday June 25.

Lecture Date Section in Text Brief Description
Day 1 Mon. June 25 1.1 Systems of Linear Equations
Day 2 Wed. June 27 1.2 Row Reduction and Echelon Forms
Day 3 Thurs. June 28 1.3 Vector Equations
Day 4 Fri. June 29 1.4 -1.5 The Matrix Equation Ax=b and Solution Sets of Linear Equations
Day 5 Mon. July 2 1.7 Linear Independence
Day 6 Thurs. July 5 1.8 Introduction to Linear Transformations
Day 7 Fri. July 6 1.9 The Matrix of a Linear Transformation
Day 8 Mon. July 9 2.1-2.2 Matrix Operations and the Inverse of a Matrix
Day 9 Wed. July 11 2.3 Characterization of Invertible Matrices
Day 10 Fri. July 13 3.1-3.2 The Determinant and its Properties
Day 11 Mon. July 16 4.1 Vector Spaces and Subspaces
Day 12 Wed. July 18 4.2 Null Spaces (Kernel), Column Spaces, and Linear Transformations
Day 13 Thurs. July 19 4.3 Linear Independent sets and bases
Day 14 Fri. July 20 4.4 Coordinate Systems
Day 15 Mon. July 23 4.5 The dimension of a vector space
Day 16 Wed. July 25 4.6 Rank
Day 17 Thurs. July 26 4.7 Change of basis
Day 18 Fri. July 27 5.1 Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues
Day 19 Mon. July 30 5.2 The Characteristic Equation
Day 20 Wed. August 1 5.3 Diagonalization
Day 21 Thurs. August 2 6.1 Inner Product, Length and Orthogonality
Day 22 Fri. August 3 6.2 Orthogonal Sets
Day 23 Mon. August 6 6.3 Orthogonal Projections
Day 24 Wed. August 8 6.4 The Gram-Schmidt Process
Day 25 Thurs. August 9 no section in book Application: Guest speaker
Day 26 Fri. August 10 7.1 Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices
Day 27 Mon. August 13 7.4 Application: Singular Value decomposition
Day 28 Wed. August 15 7.4 Application: Singular Value decomposition
Day 29 Thurs. August 16 no section in book Application -- Guest speaker
Day 30 Fri. August 17 4.9 Application: Markov Chains
Day 31 Mon. August 20 no new material Review
Day 32 Wed. August 22 no new material Review

Last Updated May 17, 2012 by R. Orellana