MA 242
Linear Algebra
Section B
Fall 2005

Final exam, homework, and final course grades (via CourseInfo)
Syllabus
Class conduct
Homework assignments:
Handouts, demos, etc:
- September 7, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook for iterated function systems
- September 9, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Row operations calculator
  - Echelon form calculator
  - Numerous animations of row reduction including:
    - Animations of reducing systems to echelon form
    - Animations of solving systems by row reduction
    - Animations of back substitution
- September 12, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 14, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Two illustrations of the span of vectors
- September 16, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Two illustrations of the span of vectors
  - Matrix-vector product
- September 19, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 21, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 23, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 26, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Matrix Machine
  - Mathematica notebook to illustrate various linear transformations from R² to R²
- September 30, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook to illustrate the relationship between matrix multiplication and composition of linear transformations
- October 3, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 5, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook to illustrate the relationships among elementary matrices, row reduction, and matrix inverses
- October 7, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook that illustrates the use of homogeneous coordinates in computer graphics
- October 12, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - A formula for the determinant
- October 14, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 17, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 19, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 21, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Vector space of functions
  - Vector space of 2x3 matrices
  - Vector space of polynomials
- October 24, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 26, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 28, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 31, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Proof of the casting-out procedure
- November 4, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- November 7, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- November 9, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - animation of how a linear transformation transforms the plane
  - Eigen engine
- November 14, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- November 16, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Examples of characteristic polynomials
- November 18, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Geometry of diagonalization
- November 21, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Examples of diagonalization
  - Geometry of diagonalization
- November 28, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- November 30, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- December 2, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- December 5, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- December 9, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Handout regarding projection matrices
- December 12, 2005
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
Homework Cover Sheet
Answers to our exams:
Old exams (answers on reserve at SCI/ENG library)
- MA 242 exams given in 2001 (TR class)
- MA 242 exams given in 2002 (MWF class)