MA 242
Linear Algebra
Section B
Fall 2006

Syllabus
Email message about the homework, etc
Homework assignments:
Handouts, demos, etc:
- September 6, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 8, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook for iterated function systems
  - Row operations 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 11, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook for reduced row echelon form (RREF)
- September 13, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 15, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook used in class
  - Two illustrations of the span of vectors
  - Matrix-vector product
- September 18, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 20, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 22, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 25, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Matrix Machine
  - Java applet to illustrate linear transformations of the plane
    Courtesy of David Austin, Grand Valley State University
  - Another java applet to illustrate linear transformations of the plane
    Also by David Austin, Grand Valley State University
  - Mathematica notebook to illustrate various linear transformations from R² to R²
- September 27, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 29, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook to illustrate the relationship between matrix multiplication and composition of linear transformations
- October 2, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook to illustrate the relationships among elementary matrices, row reduction, and matrix inverses
- October 6, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook that illustrates the use of homogeneous coordinates in computer graphics
- October 10, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - A formula for the determinant
- October 11, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 13, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 16, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 18, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Vector space of functions
  - Vector space of 2x3 matrices
  - Vector space of polynomials
- October 20, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 23, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 25, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Proof of the casting-out procedure
- October 27, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 30, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- November 3, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- November 6, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Animation of how a linear transformation transforms the plane
  - Eigen engine
- November 8, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Examples of characteristic polynomials
- November 13, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Geometry of diagonalization
- November 15, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Examples of diagonalization
  - Geometry of diagonalization
- November 17, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- November 20, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- November 27, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- November 29, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- December 1, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Handout regarding projection matrices
- December 4, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- December 8, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Interactive Gallery of Quadric Surfaces
    Courtesy of Professor Jonathan Rogness of the University of Minnesota
- December 11, 2006
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
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