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