COURSE: Matrices and matrix calculations, M340L #57005, Spring 2009 ------ TEXT: D.C. Lay, "Linear Algebra and its Applications", third edition ---- SYLLABUS: Ch.1: Linear Equations (4 days) -------- Ch.2,3: Matrix Algebra, Determinants (3 days) Ch.4: Vector Spaces (6 day ) Ch.5: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (5 days) Ch.6: Orthogonality (6 days) Ch.7: Symmetric Matrices, Quadratic Forms (3 days) INSTRUCTOR: H. Koch, Office Hours TTh 2:30-4:00, RLM 12.152, Tel: 471-8183, ---------- Email: koch@math.utexas.edu, Web: www.ma.utexas.edu/users/koch/ GRADING: Letter grades (A,B,C,D,F) will be given for each | 90 -100 A ------- exam, but number grades (100,99,..,2,1,0) will be | 80 - 89 B kept for averaging. The course grade will be obtained | 70 - 79 C by averaging the scores of the four exams, and of the | 60 - 69 D homework. Each student may replace the grade of any | 0 - 59 F ONE exam by the grade of one of the later exams. HOMEWORK will be assigned every Tuesday and collected one week later in -------- class. Each assignment is graded on a scale from zero to 30. The sum/3 of the ten highest scores contributes 6% to the class grade. EXAMS: There will be four seventy-minutes, | Homework 6% ----- cumulative (approx 80% new and 20% | Exam 1 ( Th Feb 12 ) 22% old topics) exams. Speed is a factor | Exam 2 ( Th Mar 12 ) 23% being tested. Books, calculators, or | Exam 3 ( Tu Apr 14 ) 24% notes are not allowed. FINAL -----> | Exam 4 ( Sa May 16 ) 25%