Linear Algebra and Its Applications, by David Lay
This text is very well written and is a must-read as the course moves along. 

A copy of the Study Guide is bundled with your textbook at the Campus Bookstore. The Study Guide is a very valuable resource.  I recommend that you consistently use it as you work your way through the course.  In particular, read carefully the note on How to Study Linear Algebra at the beginning of the Study Guide.  If you are purchasing your books through a different source, the Study Guide, though very useful, is optional.

There is some good supplementary material at the Companion Web Site for the course (http://www.laylinalgebra.com/).  In particular, there's a large collection review sheets and practice exams from the author.  (The practice exams may or may not be what our exams look like, but they certainly provide a good self-test on some of the material.)

You can also look at whatever material is available at MyMathLab: registration material is included with the textbook.

Each  week (beginning in week 2) I will post here a list of assigned homework to be handed in.  These assignments will normally be due in class on Fridays.  Late homeworks usually will not be accepted unless there is a special legitimate reason such as illness.   When the problem list is first posted here it may not be complete.  However, the list of problems due the following Friday will always be complete by noon on the preceding Tuesday.  Be sure to check after Tuesday that you have the complete list of problems due on Friday.

There will also be a longer list of recommended problems, not to be handed in.  You should be sure you can do them all and (even better) try some others from the text book as well.

The hand-in homeworks should be written up on 8.5 x 11 paper with "clean edges" (not torn out from a spiral bound notebook).  One goal in most upper level math courses is clear writing and arguments, so the solution of each problem should be written up quite clearly and legibly.  (In particular, check yourself by reading aloud the words and symbols you wrote down, exactly as written.  The result should be smooth sounding English--or else something is missing on paper!)

Talking with other students about homework problems is a good way to learn, but each student must write up his or her own homework.  Therefore, no solutions from two students should look too much alike.  After all, everybody says things in their own way, makes up their own notation as needed, etc.  A good way to avoid "copying" even inadvertently from another student is to talk about problems together without taking any notes away from the conversation.  This lets you share understanding and ideas, but forces you to reconstruct your own understanding on paper.

A grader will assign a score to each homework.  Each score will be rescaled to a %, and the lowest two scores will be dropped.  The average of the remaining %'s will be your homework score, H.

Homework Due Date	Problems to Hand In	Other Recommended Problems (not to hand in)	Solutions to Hand-In Problems & Quizzes
Friday, September 7	Sec 1.1: 18,22,34 Sec 1.2:  12,14,20, 28, 30	Sec 1.1:  1,5,7,13,15,23,24,25,33 Sec 1.2:  3,13,15,21,22,23,29,31,               33
Friday, September 14 Reminder: short quiz in class Friday 9/14	Sec 1.3: 12,14,18, 26,32 Sec 1.4:  8,14,18,20, 30,32 Sec 1.5:  6, 16, 28, 32 Sec 1.6:  12 (assume all the streets are one-way, so that traffic must flow in the indicated directions)	Sec 1.3: 5,7,9,23,24,25,27 Sec 1.4:  7,13,23,24,35 Sec 1.5:  13,23,24,31
Friday, September 21	Sec 1.7:  14,26,36,40 Sec 1.8:  6,10,26,32,34 Sec 1.9:  4,8,12,20,36 Section 1.10:  10	Sec 1.7: 1,15,17,19, 21,22,23,27 Sec 1.8:  3,13,15,18,21,22, 27 Sec 1.9: 13,19,23,24,27
Friday, September 28 Reminder: short quiz in class Friday 9/28. Typically, material on a quiz will go up through the sections/material included in the homework due the same day.	Sect 2.1:  6,10,24,34 Sec 2.2:  6, 14, 22, 24, 30, 32, 38 Sec 2.3:  (Note the opening sentence for the exercise set:  "Unless otherwise specified, ... " )  2,4,8,14,18,34,38	Sec 2.1:  11,13,15,16,17,19,23,25 Sec 2.2: 3,9,10,12 Sec 2.3:  11,12,17,21,37
Friday, October 5 Reminder:  Exam 1 in class on Monday October 8	Sec 2.6:  4 Sec 2.4:  4, 6 (in #6, assume that A ,C, X, and Z are square) Sec 3.1:  8, 16 (see note in text preceding Problems 15-18) , 42 Sec 3.2:  8, 14, 22, 26, 34	Sec 3.1:  39,40 Sec 3.2:  15,17,19, 27,28, 33, 36
Friday, October 12	Sec 3.2:  36 Sec 3.3:  22,24,28,30 Sec 4.1:  2, 8, 20, 28, 30 (Hint: use #28)	Sec 3.2:  35 Sec 3.3: 29 Sec 4.1: 1,5,6,25,26,27
Since Friday, October 19 is Fall Break, the homework that would normally be due then will be collected on Monday, October 22.  I will try to have the complete assignment posted here by Monday,  October 15.	Sec 4.2:  6,12,14,22,32,34 ( in #34, C[0,1] is the vector space of all continuous functions defined on the closed interval [0,1] ) Sec 4.3:  8,14,16,20,26,32 (#32 should also say "T is linear "), 34	Sec 4.2: 2,10,11,19, 25,26 Sec 4.3:  1,3,5,11,21,22, 29, 30,33
Friday, October 26 Quiz in Class Friday, October 26	Sec 4.4:  8,14,30,32 Supplementary Problems based on the handout Introduction to Diagonalization	Sec 4.4:  3,5,10,15,16
Friday, November 2	Sec 4.5:  6,12,14,16,22,24 Sec 4.6:  4,12,14,24 Sec 4.9:  4,14	Sec 4.5: 3,19,20,28 Sec 4.6: 17,18,27
Friday, November 9 (Quiz in class Friday November 9)	Sec 5.1: 8,16,20,24,36 Sec 5.2: 14,18,20,24  ("algebraic multiplicity" is what I called "multiplicity" in class;  sometimes the dimension of the eigenspace is called the "geometric multiplicity" of the eigenvalue.) Sec 5.3:  4, 6, 8, 12 (The eigenvalues for #12 are given just before #7, at the bottom right corner of p. 325)	Sec 5.1:  1,3,7,21,22,35 Sec 5.2:  5,7,21,22,25 Sec 5.3:  3,21,22
Friday, November 16	Sec 5.4:  4,10,16, 26 ( use 25 ) Sec 5.5:  6, 8,12,16	Sec 5.4:  3,15,25 Sec 5.5:  25
Friday, November 30 Quiz in Class Friday, December 7 (not November 30, as advertsied earlier)	Sec 5.6:  2, 6,10 Sec 6.1: 14,18,24,26,28 Sec 6.2: 10,14,16,20,22,28	Sec 5.6:  1,18 (if you have access to Matlab or a similar tool to assist) Sec 6.1:  9,11,19,20,31 Sec 6.2:  1,5,23,24
Friday, December 7 Quiz in Class	Sec 6.3:  10,16,20,24 Sec 6.4:  4,8,12 Sec 6.5:  4,8,12,14,24 Sec 6.6:  4, 8a,10a,14	Sec 6.3: 5,21,22 Sec 6.4: 17,18 Sec 6.5: 17,18,25 Sec 6.6:  7, 9.  It's nice to do 8b and 10b if you can have Matlab or some other program help with the computations.
		These problems are recommended for practice, but no more homework is to be handed in. Sec 7.1: 10,12,15,19 (notice that the eigenvalues are given in the paragraph preceding Problem 13), 25,26,33,35 Sec 7.2: 3,5,7,11,13,19