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