MA 242
Linear Algebra
Section B
Fall 2008

Syllabus
Class conduct
Email message about the homework, etc
Homework assignments:
Handouts, demos, etc:
- September 3, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 5, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook for iterated function systems
  - 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 8, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook for reduced row echelon form (RREF)
- September 10, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook used in class
- September 12, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Two illustrations of the span of vectors
  - Matrix-vector product
- September 15, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 17, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 19, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 22, 2008
  - 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 24, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- September 26, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook to illustrate the relationship between matrix multiplication and composition of linear transformations
- September 29, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
- October 3, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook to illustrate the relationships among elementary matrices, row reduction, and matrix inverses
- October 6, 2008
  - Notetaker helper (print out and bring to class)
  - Mathematica notebook that illustrates the use of homogeneous coordinates in computer graphics
- Homework cover sheet
- Answers to our exams:
  - White exam I
  - Yellow exam I
- Old exams
  - MA 242 exams given in 2006
  - MA 242 exams given in 2007