Math 416, Winter 2008

Course Schedule

Chapter and section numbers are from Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon, available at http://www.joshua.smcvt.edu/linalg.html/
The week of Test, quiz or other event Topics and section and chapter numbers
January 7    Chapter 1, review of systems of equations and matrices
January 14  Quiz 1 is Thursday, Jan. 17  Chapter 2, review of vector spaces, independent sets and bases
January 21    Chapter 2, review of subspaces
January 28    Sections 3.1 through 3.3, linear transformations
February 4  Test 1 is Thursday, Feb. 7  Sections 3.4 and 3.5, representing vectors and linear transformations
February 11    Section 3.6, projections
February 18  Quiz 2 is Thursday, Feb. 21  Chapter 4, determinants
February 25  Winter Break - no class this week  
March 3    Section 5.1, polynomials over a field
March 10  Quiz 3 is Thursday, March 13  Section 5.2, similar linear transformations, eigen values and eigen vectors
March 17  Test 2 is Thursday, March 20  Section 5.3, nilpotence
March 24    Section 5.4.1, polynomials of linear transformations and matrices
March 31    Section 5.4.2, the characteristic and minimal polynomial
April 7  Quiz 4 is Thursday, April 10  Section 5.4.2, Jordan Cannonical Form
April 14    Rational Cannonical Form
April 21  The Final Exam is Tuesday, April 22