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Topics List

Date Sections Topics Prerequisite Skills Student Learning Outcomes
Week 1
1.1, 1.2

Systems of Linear Equations

  • Vectors and Matrices
  • Gauss-Jordan elimination
Week 2
1.3

Solutions of Linear Systems

  • Rank of a matrix
  • Matrix addition
  • The product Ax (where A is a matrix and x is a vector)
  • The Inner product
  • Linear Combinations


Week 3
2.1 and 2.2

Linear Transformations

  • Linear transformations and their properties
  • Geometry of Linear Transformations (rotations, scalings and projections)
Week 4
2.3 and 2.4

Matrix Products and Inverses

  • Matrix Products (both inner product and row-by-column methods)
  • The Inverses of a linear transform


Week 6
3.1

Image and Kernel of a Linear Transform

  • The image of a Linear transformation
  • The kernel of a linear transformation
  • Span of a set of vectors
  • Alternative characterizations of Invertible matrices


Week 6
3.2

Bases and Linear Independence

  • Subspaces in Different Dimensions
  • Bases and Linear independence
  • Characterizations of Linear Independence


Week 5
3.3

The Dimension of a Subspace

  • Dimension of the Image
  • Rank-nullity theorem
  • Various bases in Rn


Week 7/8
3.4


Similar Matrices and Coordinates

  • Coordinates in a subspace of Rn
  • Similar matrices
  • Diagonal matrices


Week 9
5.1

Orthogonal Projections and Orthonormal Bases

  • Magnitude (or norm or length) of a vector
  • Unit Vectors
  • Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality
  • Orthonormal vectors
  • Orthogonal complement
  • Orthogonal Projection
  • Orthonormal bases
  • Angle between vectors


Week 10
5.2


Gram-Schmidt Process and QR Factorization

  • Gram-Schmidt process
  • QR Factorization


Week 11
5.3

Orthogonal Transformations and Orthogonal Matrices

  • Orthogonal Transformations
  • Properties of Othogonal Transformations
  • Transpose of a Matrix
  • The matrix of an Orthogonal Projection


Week 11
5.3

Least Squares

  • The Least Squares Solution
  • The Normal Equation
  • Another matrix for an Orthogonal Projection


Week 11
6.1 and 6.2

Determinants

  • Properties of Determinants
  • Sarrus's Rule
  • Row operations and determinants
  • Invertibility based on the determinant


Week 12
6.3


Cramer's Rule

  • Parrallelepipeds in Rn
  • Geometric Interpretation of the Determinant
  • Cramer's rule


Week 13
7.1


Diagonalization

  • Diagonalizable matrices
  • Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
  • Real eigenvalues of orthogonal matrices


Week 14
7.2 and 7.3

Finding Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

  • Eigenvalues from the characteristic equation
  • Eigenvalues of Triangular matrices
  • Characteristic Polynomial
  • Eigenspaces and eigenvectors
  • Geometric and algebraic multiplicity
  • Eigenvalues of similar matrices


Week 14
7.2 and 7.3

Symmetric Matrices

  • Orthogonally Diagonalizable Matrices
  • Spectral Theorem
  • The real eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix
Week 14
8.2

Quadratic Forms

  • Quadratic Forms
  • Diagonalizing a Quadratic Form
  • Definiteness of a Quadratic Form
  • Principal Axes
  • Ellipses and Hyperbolas from Quadratic Forms