Teaching schedule#

The teaching schedule for linear algebra is given below.

Week

Date( w/c)

Lecture

Tutorial

1

02/10/2023

Matrices: definition, indexing a matrix, basic arithmetic operations, matrix multiplication

Exercise 1.1 to Exercise 1.3

2

09/10/2023

Matrices (cont.): determinants, inverse matrix, matrix algebra

Exercise 1.4 to Exercise 1.7

3

16/10/2023

Systems of linear equations: definition, solutions of systems of linear equations using the inverse matrix and Cramer’s rule

Exercise 2.1 and Exercise 2.2

4

23/10/2023

Systems of linear equations (cont.): Gaussian elimination and partial pivoting

Exercise 2.3 and Exercise 2.4

5

30/10/2023

Systems of linear equations (cont.): Gauss-Jordan elimination, consistent, inconsistent and indeterminate systems, homogeneous systems

Exercise 2.5 to Exercise 2.7

6

06/11/2023

Vectors: Euclidean space, definition of a vector, arithmetic operations on vectors, vector magnitude, the dot product, the cross product, linear combinations of vectors

Exercise 3.1 to Exercise 3.4

7

13/11/2023

Co-ordinate Geometry: points, lines and planes, vector equations of lines and planes, the point-normal equation of a plane, shortest distance problems

Exercise 4.1 to Exercise 4.7

8

20/11/2023

Vector Spaces: definitions, subspaces, linear dependence, basis of a vector space

Exercise 5.1 to Exercise 5.6

9

27/11/2023

Linear Transformations: definition, transformation matrices, composite linear transformations

Exercise 6.1 to Exercise 6.4

10

04/12/2023

Linear Transformations (cont.): rotation, reflection, scaling and translation transformations

Exercise 6.5 to Exercise 6.7

11

11/12/2023

Exam preparation