There is an individual on-line quiz for (nearly) every section we cover; they are due by class on that section and thus not explicitly marked here. (Quiz 1.1 is an exception: It is due by the second class to allow us time to get started.) The quizzes are administered in Blackboard and can be found under each section under Course Documents, located in each individual section. Please see the the learning goals and plan for more information on the role of these quizzes with respect to the learning goals of this course.
There will also be in-class group quizzes assigned fairly frequently, but without a formal schedule, to the learning groups assigned in class.
The chapter and section numbers refer to the text, David C. Lay, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, third edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003 (or updated printing 2006).
| Class | Date | Main Topic | Notes | |
| 1 | Th 08/31 | 1.1 Systems of Linear Equations | ||
| 2 | Tu 09/05 | 1.2 Row Reduction and Echelon Form | HW 1 due: handout | |
| 3 | Th 09/07 | 1.3 Vector Equations | HW 2 due: Sec. 1.1, 1.2 | |
| 4 | Tu 09/12 | 1.4 The Matrix Equation A x = b | ||
| 5 | Th 09/14 | 1.5 Solution Sets of Linear Systems | HW 3 due: Sec. 1.3, 1.4 | |
| 6 | Tu 09/19 | 1.7 Linear Independence | ||
| 7 | Th 09/21 | 1.8 Introduction to Linear Transformations | HW 4 due: Sec. 1.5, 1.7 | |
| 8 | Tu 09/26 | 1.9 The Matrix of a Linear Transformation | ||
| 9 | Th 09/28 | 2.1 Matrix Operations | HW 5 due: Sec. 1.8, 1.9 | |
| 10 | Tu 10/03 | 2.2 The Inverse of a Matrix | ||
| 11 | Th 10/05 | Test 1 (Chapter 1 and Section 2.1) | HW 6 due: Sec. 2.1 | |
| 12 | Tu 10/10 | 2.3 Characterizations of Invertible Matrices | ||
| 13 | Th 10/12 | 2.8 Subspaces of Rn | HW 7 due: Sec. 2.2, 2.3 | |
| 14 | Tu 10/17 | 2.9 Dimension and Rank | ||
| 15 | Th 10/19 | 4.1 Vector Spaces and Subspaces | HW 8 due: Sec. 2.8, 2.9 | |
| 16 | Tu 10/24 | Examples of Vector Spaces (Chapter 4) | ||
| 17 | Th 10/26 | Test 2 (Chapters 2 and 4) | HW 9 due: Chapter 4 | |
| 18 | Tu 10/31 | 3.1 Introduction to Determinants | ||
| 19 | Th 11/02 | 3.2 Properties of Determinants | HW 10 due: Sec. 3.1, 3.2 | |
| 20 | Tu 11/07 | 5.1 Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues | ||
| 21 | Th 11/09 | 5.2 The Characteristic Equation | HW 11 due: Sec. 5.1, 5.2 | |
| 22 | Tu 11/14 | 5.3 Diagonalization | ||
| 23 | Th 11/16 | 5.3 Diagonalization | HW 12 due: Sec. 5.3 | |
| 24 | Tu 11/21 | Test 3 (Chapters 3 and 5) | HW 13 due: Sec. 7.1 | |
| Th 11/23 | Thanksgiving Holiday (no class) | |||
| 25 | Tu 11/28 | 6.1 Inner Product, Length, and Orthogonality | ||
| 26 | Th 11/30 | 6.2 Orthogonal Sets | HW 14 due: Sec. 6.1 | |
| 27 | Tu 12/05 | 6.3 Orthogonal Projections | ||
| 28 | Th 12/07 | 6.4 The Gram-Schmidt Process | HW 15 due: Sec. 6.2, 6.3 | |
| 29 | Tu 12/12 | 7.1 Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices | ||
| Tu 12/19 | 10:30-12:30 Final exam (Chapters 1 through 6) | Note the date and time! |