Math122–002 Linear Algebra I, Winter 2010
For the Fall 2009 course webpage, click here.
Lecturer: Dr Robert Bailey, College West 307.12.
E-mail: click
here (make sure you put "Math122" in the subject line, or it will
probably go unnoticed).
Telephone: (306) 585-4088.
Office hours: Friday 2.00–3.20pm; Monday, Tuesday
2.00–3.30pm, or by appointment.
Announcements
- (NEW!) CORRECTED Solutions to the practice problems (on
one-to-one transformations and eigenvalues), can be found here.
- Office hours for the final exam: Friday 2.00–3.20pm;
Monday, Tuesday 2.00–3.30pm, or by appointment.
- CORRECTED solutions to Assignment 6 can now be found
here.
- Materials to help you study for the final exam are here.
- A list of the properties of invertible matrices, that I expect you
to know for the exam, can be found here.
- Assignment 6 is worth 125 marks: if you score over 100, the
extra marks will be used to "top up" your earlier assignment marks.
- Some practice questions, on topics covered since the last assignment,
can be found here.
- The venue for the final exam has been announced: it
will be in GYM 2, on Wednesday April 21st, 7.00–10.00pm.
- Assignment 6 is now available: click here to download it. Note that
the deadline for this will be on FRIDAY 9th April.
- A sample final exam is
now available. (This is the actual exam from the Winter 2009 term, and
should be a reasonable guide for what to expect.)
- Solutions to Test 2 can be found here, while solutions to Assignment 5 can be found here.
- Solutions to the
second practice test are now available.
- I will not be
here from March 22nd to 29th. Dr
Meagher will be teaching the class while I am away, and has kindly
allowed you to use her office hours on Tuesday March 23rd (3.00–5.00pm,
in CW307.5) if you have any questions about Assignment 5.
- Assignment 5 is now available: click here to download it.
- Materials to help study for Test 2 are here.
- Solutions to Assignment 4 can be found here.
- Assignment 4 is now available: click here to download it.
- Solutions to Assignment 3 can be found here.
- Solutions to Test 1 have now been posted: click here for details. (Make sure you look at the
correct version!)
- Assignment 3 is now available: click here to download it.
(Questions 1–3 are relevant for the first test.)
- Materials to help study for Test 1 are here.
- Solutions for Assignment 2 are now posted (now corrected–there was previously a small mistake in the answer to
6(a)(iv)).
- The second assignment is now available: click here to download it.
- The class on Monday 25 January was cancelled, due to the weather.
- Solutions for
Assignment 1 are now posted.
- The first assignment is now available: click here to download it.
- Students in need of some extra help may wish to consider using the
free
tutoring service provided by the Student Development Centre.
- The first class will be on Wednesday, January 6th.
- Students in other sections should look at Dr. Meagher's webpage for
course information.
Course information
Click here for the Course Outline.
Classes
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2.30–3.20pm, Classroom Building 112.
Lecture summaries
Click here for summaries of the topics
covered in each lecture.
Assignments
Click here for details of assignments and
solutions.
Tests
Click here for copies of test papers and solutions.
Final exam
This will be on Wednesday April 21st, 7.00–10.00pm, in GYM 2.
Handouts
- For the Final Exam:
- A checklist of topics can be found here.
- Sample final exams are available: Winter 2008 (not Q7b,c,d, Q10c);
Winter 2009 (not Q6c, Q12c);
Fall 2009 (not Q7c).
- Some practice questions, on topics covered since the last assignment,
can be found here.
Solutions can be found here
- Some suggested review exercises (from the textbook) are available here.
- For Test 2:
- A checklist of topics can be found here.
- A sample test paper is available here.
Solutions can be found here, but
you are advised not to look at them until after trying the questions first!
- Some suggested review exercises (from the textbook) are available here.
- For Test 1:
- A checklist of topics can be found here.
- A sample test paper is available here. Solutions can
be found here, but you are advised not to look at them until
after trying the questions first!
- Some suggested review exercises (from the textbook) are available here.
- This
article explains how eigenvectors are used by Google searches.
- A list of the properties of invertible matrices can be found here.
- A list of the axioms for a vector space can be found here.
- This page shows the possibilities for how
three planes in R3 can intersect.
Page last updated: 20th April 2010.
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