Linear algebra part 1 Fall 2016

e-study-guide page

Final grades

here. To view your paper, come to office 233 (Snellius) between 12:00 and 13:00 Tomorrow (Tuesday 17 Jan).

Extra question hour

Op dinsdag 10 jan om 14:00 wordt er een vragenuurtje gehouden. Hier kunnen vragen worden gesteld over het Lin Alg tentamen (13 jan) en het Continue Wiskunde hertentamen (11 jan). Locatie: common room op de tweede verdieping van Snellius.

Weekly tests

Please note that there are weekly tests in the Werkcolleges, which will count towards your final grade.

Homework grades are here, to be updates during the semester.

Teacher: David Holmes.

Teaching assistents: Sebastiaan Draijer, sebas.draijer at gmail.com, Tom Br tom9358 (at) gmail.com

Organisation

For the course "Linear algebra" (Lineaire Algebra) there are lectures ("Hoorcolleges") and exercise classes ("Werkcolleges"). In each werkcollege the last 20 minutes will be a test on the material from the course up to that point. This will count towards your final grade.

The first lecture is on Monday 31 October at 11:15 in room B02 (Snellius).

The first test is during the werkcollege on Thursday 3 November at 11:15 in room B02 (Snellius).

See timetable here.

Required Literature

We will follow closely parts of the book "Linear algebra and its applications" by David Lay. Every student will need a copy of the book; for example, weekly exercises will be set from the book, and the tests and exam will contain similar questions.

Where and when?

Timetable.

Assessment

Weekly tests

As noted above, there will be a short test held every week during the Werkcollege.

Examinations

There is one exam for the course, after the end of the course (on Friday 13 January). The exam will last ? hours. It will cover material from the whole course, including that already covered in the weekly tests.

Calculating the final grade

Firstly, the weekly tests. There will be 7 tests in total. Your best 5 marks will count. Write W for the average of your best 5 tests. Write E for your grade on the final exam.

The total examination grade is is then the weighted average:

Final grade = 0.25*W + 0.75 * E.

Homework and classes

Each week, some problems from the book will be suggested. These will not be graded, and will not count towards the final grade. However, you are extremely strongly recommended to attempt all the problems - the problems in the short tests and the final exam will be similar, and past experience suggests that ability to do he homework problems is a very strong predictor of success in the course. The problems will be discussed during the classes, and you will have the opportunity to obtain help on problems you found difficult.

Office hours

Office hours of the lecturer will be from 10:00 -11:00 on Mondays (or by appointment) in room 233 in Snellius.

Content and detailed timetable

The first column is the date of the monday of the week (note the lectures are on Mondays and the exercise classes are on thursdays). The second column refers to chapters of the course book "Linear algebra and its applications" [Lay]. The final column contains the reccomended exercises from [loc.cit]; `H1.1:4,8' means exercises 4 and 8 from the end of chapter 1.1 of the book. Because many students have different versions of the book, this year I have copied the exercises into a pdf file (with link below) so that everyone is doing the same exercises, regardless of which edition they have.
Week begins Lecture Homework
24/10/2016 1.1, 1.2 Homework questions
31/10/2016 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 Homework questions
14/11/2016 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 Netwerks, 1.7 Homework questions
21/11/2016 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 Homework questions
28/11/2016 1.9, 2.1, 2.2 (first page only) Homework questions
5/12/2016 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 but NOT Cramer's rule or a formula for A inverse Homework questions Attempt the practise exam.
6/12/2015 If you missed the lecture, read the notes. Homework questions Attempt another practise exam (you will also need this) ready for Thursday. There will also be a test on Thursday as usual. Revise for the exam! There are many practise exams here.
--> At present this timetable is only approximate, and will be updated during the semester.

Links

Course website for two years ago.

Course website for three years ago.

David Holmes <holmesdst@math.leidenuniv.nl>