SyDe114 - Linear Algebra
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Suggest assigned problems and links to solutions are listed below for each unit. I may add to this list, or adjust it to fine tune, as we proceed with the course. So check back here regularly. References are to Schaum's Outline, Linear Algebra, 3rd Edition, 2001. Try doing the problems before looking at the solutions!

UNIT 1 - VECTOR SPACES
vector space axioms
4.71-73
  Euclidean spaces 1.41ab, 1.43ab, 1.46, 1.47  
  complex numbers 1.66-69, 1.70abc
SOLUTIONS 1
  subspaces 4.75, 4.77, 4.78, 4.80-82
  linear combinations 4.83-85
SOLUTIONS 2
  linear independence 4.89-91, 4.93  
  basis & dimension 4.97, 4.98, 4.101-103
SOLUTIONS 3
  matrix rank, rowspace 4.104-4.113  
  coordinates 4.128-133  
  miscellaneous 4.134-136
SOLUTIONS 4

UNIT 2 - MATRIX ALGEBRA
  matrix multiplication 2.38, 2.39,2.50  
  inverses 2.53, 2.54, 3.67[use row reduction method]  
  echelon, row-canonical 3.62  
  elementary matrices 3.65, 3.66
SOLUTIONS 5
  determinants 8.38ace, 8.40ab, 8.41, 8.43a  
  cofactors/adjoint 8.44
SOLUTIONS 6

UNIT 3 - LINEAR MAPS
  linear maps 5.49, 5.50bd, 5.51-5.53, 5.56b, 5.57b, 5.58b, 5.70, 5.71  
  kernel & image 5.61, 5.62bc, 5.63-5.667
SOLUTIONS 7
  invertible & nonsingular maps 5.56a, 5.57a, 5.58a, 5.76, 5.79, 5.80  
  matrix representations 6.37-6.42
SOLUTIONS 8
  change of basis 6.47d, 6.48-6.50  
  matrix rep & change of basis 6.52, 6.53, 6.54a, 6.55, 6.56ac, 6.59
SOLUTIONS 9

UNIT 4 - EIGENVALUES, EIGENVECTORS & DIAGONALIZATION
  eigenvalues & eigenvectors 9.45ab, 9.46, 9.48, 9.49, 9.51, 9.53, 9.54
SOLUTIONS 10

UNIT 5 - INNER PRODUCT SPACES & ORTHOGONALITY
  inner products 7.57, 7.59, 7.60b, 7.62  
  applications in Rn 1.41, 1.43, 1.44c, 1.45  
  applications in Cn 7.91-7.93
SOLUTIONS 11
  lines & planes 1.51, 1.52, 1.55 [and distance Q to H], 1.62, 1.64  
  orthogonality 7.64, 7.66-7.69  
  orthogonal projection & bases 7.74bc, 7.75-7.77, 7.94  
  orthogonal matrices 7.81, 9.56bc, 9.57a
SOLUTIONS 12

UNIT 6 - LINEAR SYSTEMS
  homogeneous systems 3.57-3.60 ,4.99b,4.100b  
  equations of a line in Rn 1.53, 1.56  
  non-homogeneous systems 3.52ab,3.53-3.56
SOLUTIONS 13
       
       
       


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