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Math 308 F, Winter Quarter 2015

Office Hours: Mo, Wed, Fr, 10.45am - 11.15am, and by appointment
Office: Padelford C331
Lectures: Mo, Wed, Fr, 11.30am - 12.20am
Text: Linear Algebra With Applications, by Jeffrey Holt
Homework:Homework assignments will be given and corrected via Webassign. Students who purchase a hard copy of text will need to purchase stand-alone Webassign access for an extra $50. Students may instead purchase Webassign access along with an electronic copy of the text for a total of $75. For more information on WebAssign please check this website as well.
Exams: You may use a scientific calculator. Graphing/programmable calculators and other electronic devices will not be allowed.
Midterm Wednesday, 02/11 in lecture
Final Exam Wednesday, 03/18 2:30-4:20pm
Practice Test for your Midterm: Here you can download the practice exam. It is comparable to what you can expect on the Midterm. Be sure to turn your answers in by Monday, 02/09/15, in order to get bonus points towards your Midterm exam. Those you want the test corrected before the Midterm, need to turn it in by Friday. Check also the previous practice test and Midterm, even though I have changed the style of the exams a bit. 2014 Fall practice and 2014 Fall Midterm. The solutions for the practice test Fall 2014 can be downloaded here.
Answer key for Midterm Fall 2014 can be downloaded here.
Answer key for Midterm Practice 2015 can be downloaded
Practice Test for your Final: Here you can download the practice test. Be sure to turn your answers in by Friday, 13/12 AND to evaluate the course in order to get points towards your exam. If you like to have your practice test checked, turn it in by 3/10. Evaluation starts 3/4 and ends 3/12. Here is a link to the current practice test with solutions:Practice Test with solution. This is a link to the old practice test in fall 2014: here.
Grading: Your grade will be determined by:
Homework 25
Midterm 25
Final Exam 50
Lecture Notes: I will post my lecture notes here. These notes will be updated frequently and show all the sections we will have covered so far. Please feel free to download them, bring them to class and make notes on the sheets, so that, instead of trying to keep up with writing you can focus on the content.
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Tenative Syllabus:
§1.1 Introduction, Lines and Linear Systems
§1.2 Linear Systems and Matrices
§1.4 Applications
§2.1 Vectors
§2.2 Span
§2.3 Linear Independence
§3.1 Linear Transformations
§3.2 Matrix Algebra
§3.3 Inverses
§4.1 Subspaces
§4.2 Basis and Dimension
§4.3 Row and Column Spaces
§5.1 Determinant Function
§6.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
§6.3 Change of Basis
§6.4 Diagonalization
§8.1 Dot Products and Orthogonal Sets
§8.2 Projection and the Gram-Schmidt-Process
§8.5 Least Squares