For most course information, see the Math 1553 Master Site:

For information specific to Sections E1 - E5, see the syllabus:

For WebWorK see T-Square:

For the Gradebook see Canvas:

For online discussions and polls see Piazza:

For on-line access to the textbook see MyMathLab (course id: margalit62306):

Basic Information

Instructor

Dan Margalit

Lecture time

• MW 10:10–11:00am

Lecture location

• College of Computing 16

My office

Skiles 234

My email

Office hours

Monday 1-2, Wednesday 3-4, and by appointment

Recitation time

• F 10:10–11:00am

Recitation location

• E1: Skiles 156
• E2: Skiles 254
• E3: Skiles 169
• E4: Skiles 256
• E5: Skiles 268

Teaching assistants
and Office Hours

• E1: Arjun Patel, Wed 2:30-3:30, Skiles 230
• E2: Qianli Hu, Wed 1-2, Clough 280
• E3: Kemi Ola, Thu 9:30-10:30, Skiles 230
• E4: Martin Ma, Fri 2-3, Skiles 230
• E5: Bharat Kanwar, Tue 1:45-2:45, Skiles 230

Course Calendar and Materials

Here is a slide deck that can be used as a reference for the whole course. It will be updated as the semester progresses.

Here is a collection of demos for this course.

Here is a reference sheet containing most theorems and definitions that you will learn (and be responsible for knowing) over the course of the semester. It will be tweaked as we cover the material.

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Date	Topic	Materials	WeBWorK	Quiz/Exam	Remarks
M Aug 21	Overview	Slides
W Aug 23	Lines and planes in Rn	Slides
F Aug 25	Recitation: Lines, planes, 1.1	Worksheet 1 (solutions)	Warmup
M Aug 28	1.1-1.2 Row reduction	Slides
W Aug 30	1.2 Row reduction (continued)	Slides Row Red. Demo	1.1
F Sep 1	Recitation: 1.1, 1.2	Worksheet 2 solutions		Quiz 1: Lines, planes, 1.1 solutions
M Sep 4	Labor Day
W Sep 6	1.3 Vectors in Rn, span	Slides 2D Demo 3D Demo	1.2
F Sep 8	Recitation: 1.3	Worksheet 3 solutions		Quiz 2: 1.1, 1.2 solutions
M Sep 11	Irma
W Sep 13	1.4 Matrix equations	Slides
F Sep 15	Recitation: 1.4	Worksheet 4 solutions		Quiz 3: 1.3 solutions
F Sep 15	Recitation: 1.4, 1.5			Quiz: 1.3
M Sep 18	1.5 Solution sets	Slides
W Sep 20	1.7 Linear independence	Slides LI Demo	1.4, 1.5
F Sep 22	Midterm 1: through 1.5	Practice Exam solutions		Midterm 1 solutions
M Sep 25	1.8 Linear transformations	Slides Av Demo
W Sep 27	1.9 The matrix of a linear transformation	Slides
F Sep 29	Recitation: 1.7, 1.8, 1.9	Worksheet 5 solutions	1.7		Midsemester progress reports submitted by 12 PM
M Oct 2	2.1 Matrix algebra	Slides Demo
W Oct 4	2.2 and 2.3 Matrix inverses	Slides Demo	1.8, 1.9
F Oct 6	Recitation: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3	Worksheet 6 solutions		Quiz 4: 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 solutions
M Oct 9	No Class (holiday)
W Oct 11	2.8 Subspaces	Slides	2.1, 2.2, 2.3
F Oct 13	Recitation: 2.8	Worksheet 7 solutions		Quiz 5: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
M Oct 16	2.9 Dimension and rank	Slides
W Oct 18	Review	Slides	2.8, 2.9
F Oct 20	Midterm 2: through 2.9	Practice Exam solutions Practice Exam solutions Practice Exam solutions		Midterm 2 solutions
M Oct 23	3.2 Determinants I	Notes, Slides
W Oct 25	3.1 Determinants II	Notes, Slides
F Oct 27	Recitation: 3.1, 3.2	Worksheet 8 solutions			Last day to withdraw (will receive "W") is October 28
M Oct 30	5.1 Eigenvectors	Slides
W Nov 1	5.2 Characteristic equation	Slides Demo	3.1, 3.2
F Nov 3	Recitation: 5.1, 5.2	Worksheet 9 solutions		Quiz 6: 3.1, 3.2
M Nov 6	5.3 Diagonalization	Slides Demo Demo
W Nov 8	Appendix B and 5.5 Complex Eigenvalues	Slides	5.1, 5.2
F Nov 10	Recitation: 5.3 and 5.5	Worksheet 10 solutions		Quiz 7: 5.1, 5.2
M Nov 13	5.5 Complex eigenvalues (continued)	Slides In Demo Rotate Demo Out Demo 3D Demo
W Nov 15	6.1 and 6.2 Inner products and orthogonal sets	Slides 2D Demo 3D Demo 1 3D Demo 2	5.3, 5.5
F Nov 17	Midterm 3: through 5.5	Practice Exam solutions Practice Exam solutions		Midterm 3 solutions
M Nov 20	6.3 Orthogonal projections	Slides Demo Demo Demo
W Nov 22	Thanksgiving holiday (no class)
F Nov 24
M Nov 27	6.4 The Gram-Schmidt process	Slides
W Nov 29	6.5 Least-Squares Problems	Slides Least Squares Demo Line Demo Parabola Demo Ellipse Demo Trig Demo	6.1, 6.2, 6.3
F Dec 1	Recitation: 6.3, 6.4, 6.5	Worksheet 11 solutions
M Dec 4	Review for Final Exam	Practice Final solutions Slides
Tue Dec 12	Final Exam for ALL SECTIONS of Math 1553: 6:00pm–8:50pm (location to be determined)