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Topics List
Date |
Sections |
Topics |
Prerequisite Skills |
Student Learning Outcomes
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Week 1
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1.1, 1.2
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Systems of Linear Equations
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- Vectors and Matrices
- Gauss-Jordan elimination
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Week 2
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1.3
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Solutions of Linear Systems
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- Rank of a matrix
- Matrix addition
- The product Ax
- Inner product
- Linear Combinations
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Week 3
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2.1 and 2.2
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Linear Transformations
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- Linear transformations and their properties
- Geometry of Linear Transformations (rotations, scalings and projections)
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Week 4
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2.3 and 2.4
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Matrix Products and Inverses
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- Matrix Products (both inner product and row-by-column methods)
- The Inverses of a linear transform
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Week 6
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3.1
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Image and Kernel of a Linear Transform
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- The image of a Linear transformation
- The kernel of a linear transformation
- Span of a set of vectors
- Alternative characterizations of Invertible matrices
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Week 6
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3.2
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Bases and Linear Independence
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- Subspaces in Different Dimensions
- Bases and Linear independence
- Characterizations of Linear Independence
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Week 5
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3.3
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The Dimension of Subspaces
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- Dimension of the Image
- Rank-nullity theorem
- Various bases in Rn
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Week 7/8
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3.4
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Similar Matrices and Coordinates
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- Coordinates in a subspace of Rn
- Similar matrices
- Diagonal matrices
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Week 9
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5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4
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Orthogonality
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- Parallel and perpendicular lines
- Absolute value function
- Basic trigonometric function
- Properties of inner products
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- Transpose of a Matrix
- Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality
- Orthonormal vectors
- Orthogonal complement
- Orthogonal Projection
- Orthonormal Bases
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Week 10
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5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4
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Gram-Schmidt Process
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- Unit vectors
- Inner products
- Orthonormal bases
- Subspaces of Rn
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- Gram-Schmidt process
- The Least Squares solution
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Week 11
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6.1, 6.2, and 6.3
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Determinants
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- Summation notation
- Sgn function
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- Properties of Determinants
- Sarrus's Rule
- Row operations and determinants
- Invertibility based on determinant
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Week 12
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6.1, 6.2, and 6.3
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Cramer's Rule
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- Properties of Determinants
- linear Systems
- Invertible matrices
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- Parrallelepipeds in Rn
- Geometric Interpretation of the Determinant
- Cramer's rule
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Week 13
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7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.1
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Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
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- Finding real roots of a polynomial
- Finding the kernel of a function
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- Diagonalization
- Finding eigenvalues
- Finding eigenvectors
- Geometric and algebraic multiplicity
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Week 14
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7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.1
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Spectral Theorem
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- Transpose of a matrix
- Basis
- Orthogonal matrices
- Diagonal matrices
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- Symmetric matrices
- Spectral Theorem
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