Kevin Milans : Teaching : Fall 2013 Math251

Kevin Milans (milans@math.wvu.edu)
Office: Armstrong Hall 408H
Office Hours: MW 1:30pm-2:30pm, Tues 11am-noon, and by appointment
Class Meetings: MW 6:00pm-7:50pm in Armstrong Hall 207

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Homework


No. Quiz Date Sections Assignment
0 Aug 21 - Homework 0 is designed to review prerequisite material. It is available here: hw0.pdf.
1 Aug 28 LAN Ch2
  • In LAN Chapter 2 Part 1:
    • p. 3: Exercise #1,
    • p. 6: Exercises #1-3, (Note: in #1, the letter i is used as an index, not sqrt(-1). For example, in (a), the entry a1,2 in the first row (i = 1) and second column (j = 2) is given by the formula ai,j = i + j = 1 + 2 = 3.)
    • p. 11: Exercises #1-#3, for matrices (a) through (d) only.
    • p. 15: #1(a,b), #2(a), #3(a), #4, #5.
  • In LAN Chapter 2 Part 2:
    • p. 28 Exercises #1-#3
2 Sep 4 LAN Ch3,Ch4
  • In LAN Chapter 3 Part 1:
    • p. 4: Exercise #1,
  • In LAN Chapter 4 Part 1:
    • p. 11 Exercises #1(1-6), #2-#7
  • In LAN Chapter 4 Part 2:
    • p. 16 Exercises #1-#3
3 Test: Sep 11 LAN Ch5
  • In LAN Chapter 5 Part 1:
    • p. 13: Exercise #2-#4 (Note: DUD means directly using the definition. The only technique we have seen to solve these problems is to use the definition.)
  • In LAN Chapter 5 Part 2:
    • p. 16: Exercise #2
    • Let V be the vector space of real-valued functions on the whole real line over the scalar field of real numbers. Decide whether the following sets of functions are linearly independent or linearly dependent in V.
      • {sin(x), sin(2x), x}
      • {x2, x2 + 3x, 2x}
4 Sep 23 10.1-10.4
  • 10.1 1-19 odd.
  • 10.2 9-21 odd.
  • 10.3 1-21 odd.
  • 10.4 1-17 odd, 23-33 odd.
  • For an extra point on quiz 4, write the word orthogonal next to your name.
5 Sep 23 10.5,10.7,10.8
    Quiz 5 covers 10.5, 10.7, and 10.8 until Normal and Binormal Vectors on p. 574.
  • 10.5 1-43 odd.
  • 10.7 1-15 odd, 17-22 (all), 39-51 odd, 57-65 odd.
  • 10.8 1-21 odd. 35, 37, 41.
6 Test: Oct 7 10.8,10.9 (not including Kepler's Laws)
  • 10.8 35, 37, 41.
  • 10.9 1-11 odd, 15-21 odd.
7 Oct 16 11.1, 11.2
  • 11.1: 1-31 (odd), 41-46.
  • 11.2: 1-15 (odd), 19-27 (odd), 29, 30.
8 Oct 28 11.3-11.5
  • 11.3: 1-33 odd, 37-53 odd, 65, 71.
  • 11.4: 1-5 odd, 11-25 odd, 31.
  • 11.5: 1-25 odd, 29, 33, 39.
9 Test: Nov 4 11.6,11.7
  • 11.6: 1-25 odd, 31, 33, 37
  • 11.7: 1-13 odd, 23-27 odd, 31, 33, 37, 41-45 odd.
10 Nov 13 12.1-12.3
  • 12.1: 1-33 odd, 37,39
  • 12.2: 1-27 odd, 31-41 odd, 48, 51
  • 12.3: 1-17 odd, 23-29 odd
11 Test: Dec 2 12.{4-7}, 13.{1,2}
  • 12.4: 1-13 odd
  • 12.5: 1-19 odd, 25, 31, 37
  • 12.6: 1-13 odd
  • 12.7: 1-15 odd, 21, 23
  • 13.1: 1-17 odd, 21-25 odd, 29, 31
  • 13.2: 1-19 odd, 27, 33, 35
12 Final: Dec 9 13.{3,4}
  • 13.3: 1-21 (odd)
  • 13.4: 1,3,7-19 (odd)

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