EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
MAT1163 LINEAR ALGEBRA
Unit Plan
Week1
Week2
Week3
Week4
Week5
Date
Topic
26-Jul Systems of linear equations
Row reduction and echelon forms
2-Aug Vector Equations
The matrix equation Ax=b
9-Aug Solution sets of linear systems
Applications of linear systems
Linear independence
16-Aug Introduction to linear transformations
The matrix of a linear transformation
23-Aug Matrix operations
The inverse of a matrix
Text
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
2.1
2.2, 2.3
2.8
30-Aug Subspaces of Rn
Dimension and Rank
2.9
Assignment 1 due 3 Sep 14.30
5.1
Week7
6-Sep Eigenvectors and eigenvalues
The characteristic equation
5.2
Diagonalisation
5.3
13-Sep No classes
20-Sep No classes
MIDSEMESTER BREAK
5.3
Week8
4-Oct Diagonalisation
Inner product, length and
orthogonality
6.1
6.2
Week9
11-Oct Orthogonal Sets
Orthogonal projections
6.3
6.4
Week10
18-Oct The Gram Schmidt Process
Least squares problems
6.5
Week11
25-Oct Diagonalisation of Symmetric
Matrices
7.1
Quadratic Forms
7.2
Assignment 2 due 29 Oct 14.30
Week12
1-Nov Revision
Note: This timetable is a guide only and some variation may occur
Week6
1
Practice Problems
2, 8, 16, 20, 26, 32
2, 8, 14, 20, 22, 30
2, 8, 14, 20, 24, 26, 32
2, 8, 14, 17, 19, 26, 30, 32
2, 8, 14, 20, 22, 26, 32, 38
3, 6, 13
2, 8, 14, 20, 26, 28, 32, 34, 36, 40
2, 4, 10, 22, 29, 30, 32
2, 14,19, 27
2, 8, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24, 26, 32
2, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22, 24, 32, 39, 40
2, 8, 14, 20, 26, 32,22
2,6,10
2, 8, 14, 20, 22, 24, 26, 34
2, 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, 24, 27
2, 8, 14, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30
2, 8, 14, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30
2, 8, 14, 20, 22, 24, 28
2, 8, 10, 14, 18, 20, 24, 26, 28
2, 8, 14, 20, 22, 24
2, 8, 14, 18, 20, 24
2, 8, 14, 18, 26
2, 8, 14, 20
2, 4, 8, 20
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