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Topics List

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

Systems of Linear Equations

  • Adding and subtracting equations
  • Solving an equation for a specified variable
  • Vectors and Matrices
  • Gauss-Jordan elimination
Week 2
1.3

Solutions of Linear Systems

  • Gauss-Jordan elimination
  • Equation for a line
  • Rank of a matrix
  • Matrix addition
  • The product Ax
  • Inner product
  • Linear Combinations


Week 3
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4


Linear Transformations

  • Domain and Range
  • Matrix addition
  • Rotations and scaling in geometry
  • Linear transformations and their properties
  • Geometry of Linear Transformations (rotations, scalings and projections)
Week 4
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4


Matrix Products

  • Linear Combinations
  • Inverse functions and the identity function
  • Vectors and the Inner product
  • Matrix Products (both inner product and row-by-column methods)
  • The Inverses of a linear transform


Week 5
3.1, 3.2, and 3.3

Subspaces in Different Dimensions

  • Image and kernel of a function
  • Linear transformations
  • Image and Kernel of a linear transformation
  • Span of a vector set
  • Subspace of Rn


Week 6
3.1, 3.2, and 3.3

Bases and Linear Independence

  • Linear Combinations
  • Dimension in Rn
  • Rank of a matrix
  • Subspace of Rn
  • Linear independence and basis
  • Dimension
  • Rank-nullity Theorem


Week 7/8
3.4


Similar Matrices and Coordinates

  • Conics (ellipses in particular)
  • Equivalence Relations
  • Coordinates in a subspace of Rn
  • Similar matrices
  • Diagonal matrices


Week 9
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4


Orthogonality

  • Parallel and perpendicular lines
  • Absolute value function
  • Basic trigonometric function
  • Properties of inner products
  • Transpose of a Matrix
  • Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality
  • Orthonormal vectors
  • Orthogonal complement
  • Orthogonal Projection
  • Orthonormal Bases



Week 10
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4


Gram-Schmidt Process

  • Unit vectors
  • Inner products
  • Orthonormal bases
  • Subspaces of Rn
  • Gram-Schmidt process
  • The Least Squares solution


Week 11
6.1, 6.2, and 6.3


Determinants

  • Summation notation
  • Sgn function
  • Properties of Determinants
  • Sarrus's Rule
  • Row operations and determinants
  • Invertibility based on determinant



Week 12
6.1, 6.2, and 6.3


Cramer's Rule

  • Properties of Determinants
  • linear Systems
  • Invertible matrices
  • Parrallelepipeds in Rn
  • Geometric Interpretation of the Determinant
  • Cramer's rule


Week 13
7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.1


Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

  • Finding real roots of a polynomial
  • Finding the kernel of a function
  • Diagonalization
  • Finding eigenvalues
  • Finding eigenvectors
  • Geometric and algebraic multiplicity


Week 14
7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.1


Spectral Theorem

  • Transpose of a matrix
  • Basis
  • Orthogonal matrices
  • Diagonal matrices
  • Symmetric matrices
  • Spectral Theorem