Course Exams

Exam 1 (Fri. 9/21)

Material covered: HW 1 - HW 5, lectures up to Mon. 9/17.

I highly suggest you prepare for the exam by reviewing Homeworks 1 - 4, making sure you can answer those questions, and doing

Homework 5

before Wed. 9/19. Check your answers for Homework 5 with the

Homework 5 Solutions,

and bring any questions you may have (on anything in the course) on Wednesday, which will be a review. You are also welcome to come by during office hours.

Exam 2 (Fri. 10/26)

Material covered: HW 6 - HW 10 (roughly Chapter 4 excluding 4.7, Section 2.2, applications of Chapter 4 to linear transformations). In particular, you should be able to

Solve a system of linear equations
Determine if a set is a vector space
Determine if a vector v is in span S or if span(S)=V
Determine if S is linearly independent
Determine if S is a basis for V
Determine the dimension of a vector space
Find the coordinate vector for v with respect to a basis
Determine v from a coordinate vector
Determine the image/rank of a linear transformation
Determine the kernel/nullity of a linear transformation

As before, I suggest you prepare by reviewing HW 6-9 and doing

Homework 10

before Wed. 10/24. Check your answers with

Homework 10 Solutions

and bring any questions you have the Wednesday before the exam. You are also welcome to come by during office hours. Note: the Thursday before the exam I have to teach until 10:15 so office hours will start after that.

Here are the

Exam 2 Solutions.

Please look over them along with your exams and come see me if you have any questions about the material.

Final Examination (Sec.1 : Dec. 11 at 10:30, Sec. 4: Dec. 13 at 8am)

The final exam is cumulative, though it will focus more on the latter part of the course. I suggest you review, at the minimum, Homeworks 11-15, Exam 2 and go over

Homework 16

before the exam. Please try to do Homework 16 before the last day of class, and bring your questions as before. I highly recommend you treat Homework 16 as a practice exam (study, then try it on your own without any help). (Of course, the real exam will include more questions similar to those on Exam 2 also.) Then you may check your answers with mine:

Homework 16 Solutions.

Good luck!