Math 350, Fall 2011

Welcome to Math 350, Sections 01-02.

  • Instructor: Po Lam Yung
    Office: Hill 224
    Office hours: Mondays 2:00pm-3:15pm
  • Grader for Section 1: Michael Burkhart
  • Grader for Section 2: Liming Sun

Textbook:

  • Stephen H. Friedberg, Arnold J. Insel and Lawrence E. Spence, Linear Algebra (4th edition), Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-008451-4
  • You are not required to purchase any textbook, as long as you learn the material and get a way to figure out the homework problems.

Grading Scheme:

  • Final Exam: 200 points
  • Two mid-term Exams: 100 points each, held in class on October 5, 2011 (Wednesday) and on November 21, 2011 (Monday)
  • Quizzes: 10 points each. These are to be held in class every Monday (unless otherwise specified). These will be about homework problems that are assigned the previous Monday (see below). The two lowest scores will be dropped.

Homework:

  • Homework will be assigned every Monday. You do not need to turn them in. However, you will be quizzed about them the next Monday in class.
  • All homework will be assigned from the textbook unless otherwise specified.
Homework 1 See these problems Quiz on Sept 19
Homework 2 Section 1.2: 1, 17, 19, 21
Section 1.3: 1, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 20, 28 		Quiz on Sept 26
Homework 3 Section 1.4: 1(a)(c), 4(a), 5(g), 11, 13, 16
Section 1.5: 1, 2(d)(g), 5, 8, 9, 20
Section 1.6: 1(a)-(g), 1(l), 2(b)(d), 3(a)(b), 12, 23, 26 		Quiz on Oct 3
Midterm 1 review See these problems ---
Homework 4 Section 2.1: 1(b)(c)(d)(f)(g), 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21
Also these supplementary exercises 		Quiz on Oct 17
Worksheet 1 You can find the worksheet you will do on Oct 12 (Wednesday) in class here ---
Homework 5 Section 1.3: 31
Section 1.6: 35
Section 2.1: 17, 21, 28, 31(a)(b), 35
Section 2.3: 13, 14(a)(b), 15, 16
Also the supplementary exercises from Homework 4 		Quiz on Oct 24
Worksheet 2 You can find the worksheet you did on Oct 24 (Monday) in class here ---
Homework 6 Section 2.2: 1(c), 3, 4, 5(a)(b), 14, 16
Section 2.4: 1(f)(g)(i), 4, 5, 16
Section 2.5: 3(c)(e), 6(a)(b)
Also read Theorem 2.20 and its Corollary from the textbook. 		Quiz on Oct 31
Homework 7 Section 4.1: 1(a), 9, 10, 11
Section 4.2: 3, 4, 15, 19, 21, 26, 27
Section 4.3: 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 21, 24
Quiz on Nov 7
Notes 1 You can find the notes on Chapter 3 we went through on Nov 2 here ---
Homework 8 Section 2.4: 7(b), 9, 10, 17
Section 3.2: 2(a)(c)(e), 3, 4, 6(a)(b), 8, 20
Section 3.3: 1(c)-(h), 2(a)(d), 3(a)(d), 4, 7(a)(c), 8, 9, 10
Section 4.3: 14 		Quiz on Nov 14
Notes 2 You can find the notes on Chapter 5 here. ---
Homework 9 Section 5.1: 1(h)(i)(g), 3(a)(b)(c), 4(a)(f)(h), 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17, 20
Also these supplementary exercises 		No quiz on these but they will be part of midterm 2.
Midterm 2 review See these problems ---
Homework 10 Section 5.2: 1(d)(e), 2(a)(e)(g), 3(a)(d), 7, 11, 12, 13(b)(c), 18
Section 5.4: 2(a)(d), 3, 4, 5, 11, 17, 18, 19, 25 		Quiz on Nov 28
Homework 11 Section 6.1: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 19, 20(a), 22, 24, 26 Quiz on Dec 5
Homework 12 Section 6.2: 2(a)(g)(i), 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15(a), 16, 17, 19, 20 Quiz on Dec 12
Notes 3 You can find the notes to Chapter 6 here. ---
For fun These are some optional reading material for those of you who are interested. ---
Food for thought These are some optional problems for those of you who are interested. ---
Homework 13 Section 6.3: 2, 3, 6, 10, 12, 14, 18 ---
Homework 14 (Optional) Section 6.4: 2(d)(e)(f), 6, 7, 10, 14, 17
Section 6.5: 7, 8, 10, 12, 14
Section 6.6: 4, 7 		---
Final Review See these problems ---