Math 2270-1
Linear Algebra
Fall term, 2005

Class Notes

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Lectures are listed in reverse chronological order.

Week 16
finalreview.pdf        review sheet for final exam
dec6.pdf        8.3: singular value decomposition
dec5.pdf        8.2: spectral theorem!!

Week 15
dec2.pdf        8.2: conics and quadric surfaces
dec2maple.pdf        8.1-8.2: Maple worksheet for browser viewing
dec2maple.mws        8.1-8.2: worksheet to open from Maple.
nov30.pdf        7.5, 8.1-8.2: Google's secret; introduction to chapter 8
nov29.pdf        7.6: stability of x=0 for matrix power discrete dynamical systems
nov28.pdf        7.5: powers of complex numbers

Week 14
nov23.pdf        7.5: complex numbers; understanding the glucose-insulin model with complex eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
nov22.pdf        7.4-7.5: powers and similar matrices. Glucose-insulin discrete dynamical system.
nov21.pdf        7.4: When are matrices diagonalizable?

Week 13
nov18.pdf        7.3: 3 by 3 orthogonal matrices with det = 1 are rotations: an example which reviews much!
nov16.pdf        7.3: similar matrices have identical eigenvalue-eigenvector structure.
nov15.pdf        7.2-7.3: finding eigenvalues and eigenspace bases for square matrices

Week 12
nov11.pdf        7.1: Coyotes and roadrunners: discrete dynamical systems
nov9.pdf         extra: determinants in multivariable integration formulas: length/area/volume expansion factors.
nov8.pdf          6.3: geometric meaning of determinants, for volumes and orientation.
nov7.pdf          6.2-6.3: determinants of products and transposes; Adjoint inverse formula and Cramer's rule

Week 11
review2.pdf      review sheet for exam 2
practice2.pdf    practice second exam
nov1.pdf          6.1-6.2:   determinant properties
oct31.pdf         6.1:   math induction and n by n determinants

Week 10
oct28.pdf         6.1:   3 by 3 determinants
oct26.pdf         5.4: orthogonal complements and the 4 subspaces associated to any Euclidean space linear transformation
oct25.pdf         5.5: inner product spaces

Week 9
oct21.pdf         5.4: applying least squares to data fitting problems
oct19.pdf         5.3-5.4: orthogonal transformations, projection matrices, least-squares solutions to inconsistent systems.
oct18.pdf         5.3: orthogonal transformations
oct17.pdf         5.2: Gram-Schmidt creation of orthonormal bases

Week 8
oct14.pdf         5.1: R^n Pythagorean Theorem, Cauchy Schwarz inequality, and angles
oct12.pdf         5.1: orthonormal bases and projection
oct11.pdf         4.3: how change of basis affects the matrix of a linear transformation
oct10.pdf         4.3: matrix of a linear transformation, examples.

Week 7
oct5.pdf         4.3: matrix of a linear transformation.
oct4.pdf         4.1-4.2: linear transformations, kernel, image, isomorphisms, rank + nullity theorem.
oct3.pdf         4.1-4.2: linear spaces, subspaces, bases, coordinates

Week 6
sept30.pdf         4.1: Linear (combination) spaces, aka vector spaces
sept28.pdf         3.4: matrix of a linear transformation with respect to arbitrary bases
sept26.pdf         3.4: vector coordinates with respect to a given basis

Week 5
sept23.pdf         3.3: interesting theorems about dimension and bases
sept21.pdf         3.2-3.3: using rref to examine column dependencies and to understand important dimension theorems
sept20.pdf         3.2-3.3: for a given subspace a "good" collection of vectors spans it and is linearly independent, i.e. a basis!
sept16.pdf         3.1: finish Friday's notes

Week 4
sept16.pdf         3.1: kernal, image, subspaces
twigexample.pdf         an example for what Maple B.2 could look like - lecture finished fractals.pdf
sept13.pdf         2.4+: matrix algeba; understanding fractal algorithm by analogy to Newton iteration for root finding.
2270hw.html     sept. 12 lab play with matrix algebra and fractals, in LCB 115

Week 3
sept9.pdf         2.3: inverse transformations and matrices, continued
fractals.pdf         extra: notes on fractals
sept7.pdf         2.2-2.4: composition of matrix functions and the matrix product; inverse transformations and the inverse matrix
sept6.pdf         2.2,2.4: geometry and algebra of linear and affine transformations; composition and the matrix product

Week 2
sept2.pdf         2.1:   geometry of matrix (linear) and affine transformations.
aug31.pdf        Appendix A and 2.1:   review of dot product and Euclidean space geometry, begin matrix transformations
aug30.pdf        1.3   properties of rref(A|b) and solution multiplicity. The linear combination interpretation of linear systems.
aug29.pdf        1.2   using reduced row echelon form and backsolving to solve linear systems

Week 1
aug26.pdf        1.1   introduction to applications of linear systems (Professor Alfeld's notes)
aug24.pdf        1.1   introduction to linear algebra and linear geometry