Applied Linear Algebra, M346, Spring 2009, Unique #57065

  • Professor: Lorenzo Sadun
  • Classes: MWF, 9-10, RLM 7.116
  • Website: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~sadun/S09/346
  • Office: RLM 9.114
  • Office Hours: Th 11-12, F 3-5
  • 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 Schedule Homework 13 is due on Friday, May 1, and homework 14 will be due on Friday, May 8.
  • Finals week office hours Besides my Monday morning office hours (that almost nobody came to), I'll be in RLM 9.114 on Thursday 11-12 and Friday 10-12. Actually, I'll be around most of the time this week, and you're welcome to stop by, but I promise to be around then.
  • Final Exam Tuesday, May 19, from 9-12 in RLM 7.104. That's the big room near the elevators. The ground rules are similar to the midterms (closed book, no calculators), except that you are allowed two 8.5 x 11 "crib sheets". As usual, you can write whatever you want on each side of your crib sheets, as long as it is handwritten, by you.
  • *Handouts and Other Course Information

  • First Day Handout
  • Course Schedule
  • Homework
  • Here are several practice exams, as well as our actual midterms. 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
  • Second midterm from 2003, both with and without solutions
  • Second midterm from 2004, both with and without solutions
  • Actual second midterm, 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
  • Actual final from 2009, both with and without solutions