Math 1071-FAVectors and Matrices
Instructor Dr. Sergey Ulanov
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Lectures: MWF, 12:30 pm – 01:30 pm
Room RB-2044
Labs: F, 02:30 pm – 04:30 pm
Room: RB-2042
Email Communication: Any time. Don’t forget to include the course number, your name, and keywords in the subject line. For example, “Subject: Math 1071, John Smith, system of linear equations” (otherwise your message will not be opened).
Textbook: Elementary Linear Algebra, First Canadian Edition by Stewart Venit, Wayne Bishop, Jason Brown.
Course content: Chapters 1-5, 7, 8
Attending lectures and labs is compulsory, because I am going not only to discuss some theoretical statement, but also teach how to solve problems.
Assignments:There will be the four assignments.All assignments, hand written or printed, should have a cover page with information including: course number, assignment number, student’s name and student’s ID number.
Sloppy writing may face a mark penalty up to 20%.
The deadline for each assignment will be announced additionally.
There will be an assignment box for the assignments on the second floor of RB.
Late assignments may be accepted with acceptable proof and these assignments must be submitted to me (the instructor) in the class. (Do not put into the mailbox). Each miss assignment will be counted 0.
Quizzes: There will be four quizzes during the course.The quizzes will be held during the class time.
If you think your score is not fair, put you complaint in writing on the front page of yourquiz or your assignment and return it to me right after the class. Do not make any changes in your papers.
The final exam will cover all of the course material.
The final exam is close-book.
Students are allowed to bring up to 3 pages (letter size, both sides) of personal study notes and a nonprogrammable calculator.
The final exam will be written in the scheduled three hours.
Performance Evaluation: Your final grades are calculated from the fourassignments (10%), quizzes (30%), and final exam (60%).
Tentative Schedule:
Lecture
Chapters 2 - 3: Sections 2.2 – 2.3, 3.1 - 3.3 Sept. 7 – Sept. 21
Chapter 4: Sections 4.1 – 4.3 Sept. 23 – Sept. 30
Chapter 1: Sections 1.1 – 1.3 Oct. 3 – Oct. 12
Chapter 5: Sections 5.1 – 5.3 Oct. 14 – Nov. 7
Chapter 5: Section 5.4 Nov. 9 – Nov. 16
Chapter 7: Section 7.1 – 7.3 Nov. 18 – Nov. 21
Chapter 8: Section 8.1 Nov. 23 – Nov. 25
Review of the course Nov. 28 – Dec. 5
Assignments Deadline for Assignments
Assignment 1: Sept. 28
System of Linear Equations,
Matrices
Assignment 2: Oct. 7
Determinants
Assignment 3: Oct. 21
Geometry of R2 and R3
Assignment 4: Nov. 18
Independence and
Basis in Rn