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

Classes

Lecture summaries

Assignments

Tests

Final exam

• For the Final Exam:
  1. A checklist of topics can be found here.
  2. Sample final exams are available: Winter 2008 (not Q7b,c,d, Q10c); Winter 2009 (not Q6c, Q12c); Fall 2009 (not Q7c).
  3. Some practice questions, on topics covered since the last assignment, can be found here. Solutions can be found here
  4. Some suggested review exercises (from the textbook) are available here.
• For Test 2:
  1. A checklist of topics can be found here.
  2. 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!
  3. Some suggested review exercises (from the textbook) are available here.
• For Test 1:
  1. A checklist of topics can be found here.
  2. 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!
  3. 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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