Math 340, Spring 2011
7:45 and 9:55
MWF, B239 Van Vleck
Professor: Robert Wilson
Text: Elementary Linear Algebra with Applications, by Kolman and
Hill, 9th
ed.
Final Exam
CLICK HERE for the final exam as it was given.
CLICK HERE for the final exam with answers.
The final exam will be 7:45-9:55 in room 145 of Birge Hall. Make sure in advance that you know how to find the room, so that you don't come late to the exam because you were trying to find it!
CLICK HERE for details about the exam, including what you can bring to the exam and a discussion of topics covered.
April 22: I slowed down a lot in a couple of sections, compared to the original schedule. I thought it was more important to understand the material than to rush through it. But we do need to reach certain key topics. There was some space in the schedule at the end, intentionally, and we will have to skip a couple of sections.
HERE is a revised schedule for the rest of the semester.
CLICK HERE for a description of the Gram-Schmidt process.
SECOND MIDTERM EXAM:
CLICK HERE for the exam as given
CLICK HERE for the exam with answers
CLICK HERE for a description of the exam and details such as what you can bring.
FIRST MIDTERM EXAM:
CLICK HERE for the exam as given
CLICK HERE for the exam with answers
CLICK HERE for a commented list of the sections we have covered that will (or will not) be on the exam, as well as other information about the exam.
CLICK HERE to see the note on proof by induction.
CLICK HERE to see the handout on Row
Reduction and solving
a system of equations that was prepared to be handed out the day
classes were
cancelled for snow! This handout is in Adobe's PDF format: Your web
browser
almost surely has already a plug-in for viewing PDF. If you cannot open
the
file: The standard PDF reader for many years has been Adobe Reader. You
can
download that, for PC or Mac and maybe for Linux, directly from Adobe
by
clicking here.
But many people have found recent versions of that program to be
both
"buggy" and outrageously bloated and slow. Another program you can
download for free is Foxit, available by clicking here.
(The program I use to write PDF files sometimes leaves strange lines in
the
output: I see at least one, on the last page, just above the phrase
"that
we got above". Since there are some words or phrases intentionally
underlined, those lines could be confusing! Sorry...)
SCHEDULE for the class: Lists sections I
expect we
will cover day-by-day, and exercises you should be sure you can work.
The
exercises are for your own calibration as to how well you understand
the
material: You may be asked to write up and turn in for grading some
problems,
which may include some of these. But you should at least make sure you
can do
these, as a test of how well you understand the material we are
studying. Many
exam problems will resemble these. The "midterm" exams and the material
they will cover are shown on this
schedule. NOTE that the midterm exams are on Thursday evenings: This is
to allow you
more time as well as letting us find a room where you won't be all
crowded
together. Be sure to note the midterm exam dates and times and be
careful not to
schedule other activities at those times!
The final exam will cover the whole course: Among other things, this
gives you
an opportunity to show later that you have gained mastery of some
material that
maybe you did not do well on at a midterm exam. The second midterm is
nearly at the end of the semester
so that relatively little new material, not previously on a test, needs
to be on the final.
As of 12/28/2010: I have put the problems into the schedule for the first several weeks. I will continue to update this in coming days.
Course DESCRIPTION: This tells how the class will run, including some comments on what the course is supposed to accomplish and how grades will be computed.