Course Information

Instructor
Jonathon Peterson
Office
430 Mathematical Sciences Building
e-mail
petersonmath math purdue edumath
phone
496-3578
Office Hours
Monday 2:00-4:00
Wednesday 3:00-4:00

Course syllabus
More information on the course (including grades) can be found on the course website on Blackboard Vista.

Lecture Notes

At the end of every week, I save the notes I presented in lecture as a .pdf file.
The weekly lecture notes can be downloaded here.

Web Links and Tools

A Java applet for visualizing linear transformations.
An online utility for row-reducing matrices.

Solutions

Solutions to Exam 1.
Solutions to Exam 2.

Homework Assignments

Week   Problems   Due
1
  1.1: 3, 4, 7, 27, 28, 31, 34, 35, 39, 40, 46a, 47
  1.2: 1, 4, 30, 37
  August 31
2
  1.2: 7, 10, 18, 34, 35, 40, 44, 45, 61
  1.3: 1, 4, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 47, 50
  September 9 (Friday)
3
  1.3: 13, 14, 28, 29, 31, 37
     Note: compute the product two ways in problems 13 and 14
  2.1: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13a, 42, 44, 49, 51
  September 14
4
  2.1: 47, 48
  2.2: 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 36
  2.3: 2, 7, 49, 52
  September 21
  How to do proofs
5
  2.2: 31, 37, 42, 45
  2.3: 4, 14, 36, 39, 42, 43, 44
  2.4: 10, 12, 20, 29, 34a, 35a-b, 41, 42, 77, 78, 79
  September 28
6
  3.1: 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 23, 24, 25, 31, 33, 34   October 5
7
  3.1: 21, 22
  3.2: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 16, 17, 18, 24, 28, 29, 31, 45, 46, 48, 49
  3.3: 28, 29, 31, 32, 60
  October 14 (Friday)
8
  3.3: 22, 23, 33, 36, 69, 70, 71, 72
  3.4: 1, 2, 3, 14, 15, 16, 43, 50ab
  October 19
9
  3.4: 20 (compute 3 ways), 26, 28, 29, 37, 38, 40, 41, 47, 56, 62, 66   October 26
10
  4.1: 1-5, 9-13, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 39, 46, 48
  4.2: 2, 3, 4, 22, 24, 25, 26, 29
  November 2
  November 4 (Friday)
11
  4.2: 6, 7, 30, 35, 51, 54, 63, 64
  4.3: 2, 3, 5, 6, 13, 14, 20, 27, 28, 41, 44, 47, 48, 49, 53
  (For problems 5, 6, 13, 14, 20, 27, and 28 read the directions above problem 5)
  November 9
12
  6.1: 5, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 33, 34, 37, 38   November 16
13
  6.1: 31, 40
  6.2: 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 46
  For problems 1-9, compute the determinant using row reduction operations
  November 21 (Monday)
14
  6.2: 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 38
  6.3: 1, 2, 3, 7, 18, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 48
  November 30
15
  7.1: 1, 3, 6, 16, 18, 19, 34, 49, 51
  7.2: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 22
  7.3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 18
  December 7
16
  7.1: 53
  7.2: 23, 28a,b
  7.3: 44
  7.4: 3, 4, 13, 15, 31
  December 12