Applied Linear Algebra, M346, Fall 2009, Unique #57850

  • Professor: Lorenzo Sadun
  • Classes: MWF, 10-11, RLM 6.114
  • Website: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~sadun/F09/346
  • Office: RLM 9.114
  • Office Hours: M2-3, Tu 9-11
  • Phone: 471-7121
  • Email: sadun@math.utexas.edu
  • Text: Applied Linear Algebra; the Decoupling Principle, 2nd edition by yours truly.  We will attempt to cover the first 8 chapters, with occasional sections skipped.  Do not attempt to use the first edition of the book, which is filled with printing errors. Also, the second edition has a lot of new content and is priced at half the first edition, thanks to a change in publishers.
  • Prerequisites: M340L or M341 or M311 or my permission.  I expect you to have a good feel for manipulating matrices, especially row reduction, at the level of Appendix A. I also expect you to have seen abstract vector spaces and linear transformations, but some rustiness is expected -- we'll be reviewing that.  I don't assume that you've seen eigenvalues and eigenvectors at all; we'll do them from scratch.
  • Homework update: Homework 13 has been adjusted to NOT include any section 8.2 problems.

    • *Handouts and Other Course Information

  • First Day Handout
  • Course Schedule
  • Homework

    • Here are several practice exams, and I'll post our actual exams after the fact. In studying for tests, I strongly recommend that you work each old exam without looking at the solutions, and then look at the solutions when you're done.

  • First midterm from 2003, both with and without solutions
  • First midterm from 2004, both with and without solutions
  • First midterm from 2005, both with and without solutions
  • First midterm from Spring 2009, both with and without solutions
  • Actual first midterm, both with and without solutions
  • Second midterm from 2003, both with and without solutions
  • Second midterm from 2004, both with and without solutions
  • Second midterm from Spring 2009, both with and without solutions
  • Actual second midterm, both with and without solutions
  • Third midterm from Spring 2009, both with and without solutions
  • Actual third midterm, both with and without solutions
  • Practice final from 2000, both with and without solutions
  • Practice final from 2003, both with and without solutions
  • Practice final from 2004, both with and without solutions
  • Practice final from 2005, both with and without solutions
  • Practice final from Spring 2009, both with and without solutions