| Week 1 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| W | 1/13 | Organization | Student information forms | |
| F | 1/15 | Lab orientation | 1.1, Gen Info |
Lab 1: Maple Tutorial |
| Week 2 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 1/18 | (no class -- MLK Day) | 1.1, Gen Info |
Optional lab makeup |
| W | 1/20 | Systems of equations | 1.1 | |
| F | 1/22 | Row reduction, echelon form |
1.2 | Lab 2:
Systems
of Linear Equations |
| Week 3 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 1/25 | Vector equations | 1.3 | |
| W | 1/27 | The equation Ax=b | 1.4 | |
| F | 1/29 | Matrix operations | 2.1 | Lab 3: Matrix Algebra |
| Week 4 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 2/1 | Solution sets | 1.5 | |
| W | 2/3 | Linear independence | 1.6 | |
| F | 2/5 | Inverse of a matrix | 2.2 | Lab 4:
Inverses
and Elementary Matrices |
| Week 5 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 2/8 | Invertible matrices | 2.3 | |
| W | 2/10 | Linear transformations | 1.7 | |
| F | 2/12 | Matrix factorization | 2.5 | Lab 5:
LU Decomposition |
| Week 6 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 2/15 | Linear models | 1.9 | |
| W | 2/17 | Determinants | 3.1-3.2 | |
| F | 2/19 | Determinants | 3.1-3.2 | Lab 6: Determinants |
| Week 7 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 2/22 | Review | Chs. 1-2 | |
| W | 2/24 | Spaces, subspaces | 4.1 | Start Take-Home Test 1 |
| F | 2/26 | Null, column spaces | 4.2 | Take-Home Test 1 due Lab 7: Rotations |
| Week 8 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 3/1 | Bases | 4.3 | |
| W | 3/3 | Coordinate systems | 4.4 | |
| F | 3/5 | Difference equations | 4.8 | Lab 8: Difference Equations |
| Week 9 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 3/8 | Dimension | 4.5 | |
| W | 3/10 | Rank | 4.6 | |
| F | 3/12 | Markov chains | 4.9 | Lab 9: Markov Chains |
Spring Break
| Week 10 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 3/22 | Eigenstuff | 5.1 | |
| W | 3/24 | Characteristic equation | 5.2 | |
| F | 3/26 | Diagonalization | 5.3 | Lab 10:
Eigenvalues
and Eigenvectors |
| Week 11 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 3/29 | Eigenvectors and linear transformations |
5.4 | |
| W | 3/31 | Complex eigenvalues | 5.5 | |
| F | 4/2 | Discrete dynamical systems |
5.6 | Lab 11:
Leslie Growth Models |
| Week 12 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 4/5 | Review | Chs. 4-5 | |
| W | 4/7 | Discrete dynamical systems |
5.6 | Start Take-Home Test 2 |
| F | 4/9 | Leslie models | Lab 11 | Take-Home Test 2 due Lab 12: Harvesting an Age-Distributed Population |
| Week 13 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 4/12 | Length, orthogonality | 6.1 | |
| W | 4/14 | Orthogonal projections | 6.2-6.3 | |
| F | 4/16 | Orthogonality | 6.1-6.3 | Lab 13: Orthogonality |
| Week 14 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 4/19 | Least-squares problems | 6.5 | Start Take-Home part of Final Exam |
| W | 4/21 | Linear models | 6.6 | |
| F | 4/23 | Least-squares problems | 6.5 | Lab 14: Least Squares |
| Week 15 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| M | 4/26 | Summary of the semester | ||
| W | 4/28 | TC Evaluation | Take-Home part of Final Exam due |
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| Week 16 | Date | Topic | Reading | Activity |
| F | 5/7 | Final Exam | Chs. 1-6 | In-Class part of Final Exam |
Last modified: December 31, 1998