The Chapman section numbers are from the 2018 third edition of Essentials of MATLAB Programming.
The Lay section numbers are from the 2016 fifth edition of Linear Algebra and its Applications.
Class type | Date | Day | Topics | Reading assignments | |
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Week 1 | Lecture | 9/19 | Tue | Overview of EA1; problem formulation in the PageRank case study; vectors and matrices; vector addition and scalar multiplication; matrix-vector multiplication; PageRank equations in standard form | PageRank Case Study §1-2 Lay §1.3 through Example 4, §1.4 through Example 2 |
Discussion | 9/20 | Wed | Introduction to Matlab; vectors and matrices in Matlab; assignment statements; indexing and subarrays | Chapman §1.1-1.5, 2.1-2.7 | |
Lecture | 9/21 | Thur | Arithmetic expressions; build-in functions; solving PageRank using Matlab | Chapman §2.8-2.10, 6.6-6.7 | |
Recitation | 9/22 | Fri | MATLAB examples | ||
Week 2 | Discussion | 9/25 | Mon | More MATLAB examples, character data types/ASCII representations | Chapman §2.11-2.14, 3.1-3.6 |
Lecture | 9/26 | Tue | Logical expressions | Chapman §4.1-4.3 | |
Discussion | 9/27 | Wed | More logical functions, comparing strings | ||
Lecture | 9/28 | Thur | Branches | Chapman §4.4-4.6 | |
Recitation | 9/29 | Fri | |||
Week 3 | Discussion | 10/2 | Mon | Logical masks, examples | |
Lecture | 10/3 | Tue | Loops; iterative solutions to PageRank | Chapman §5.1-5.2 PageRank Case Study §3 |
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Discussion | 10/4 | Wed | More iterative methods: Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel | Supplementary notes | |
Lecture | 10/5 | Thur | User-defined functions in Matlab | Chapman §6.1-6.2 | |
Recitation | 10/6 | Fri | |||
Week 4 | Discussion | 10/9 | Mon | Function handles, anonymous functions, cell arrays | |
Lecture | 10/10 | Tue | Optional arguments; error checking | Chapman §6.3 | |
Discussion | 10/11 | Wed | Varargin and varagout, Monte-carlo methods. | ||
Lecture | 10/12 | Thur | Augmented matrix; row reduction; echelon form MIDTERM 1 at 7 p.m. |
Lay §1.1-1.2 | |
Recitation | 10/13 | Fri | |||
Week 5 | Discussion | 10/16 | Mon | Floating point numbers, round-off error, partial pivoting | |
Lecture | 10/17 | Tue | Linear combinations; span | Lay §1.3-1.4 | |
Discussion | 10/18 | Wed | Examples of row reduction and echelon form | Lay §1.1-1.2 | |
Lecture | 10/19 | Thur | Solution sets; parametric vector form | Lay §1.5 | |
Recitation | 10/20 | Fri | |||
Week 6 | Discussion | 10/23 | Mon | Network flows | Network Flows Case Study |
Lecture | 10/24 | Tue | Linear independence; linear transformations | Lay §1.7-1.8 | |
Discussion | 10/25 | Wed | Network flows (continued) | Network Flows Case Study | |
Lecture | 10/26 | Thur | The matrix of a linear transformation; matrix operations | Lay §1.9, 2.1 | |
Recitation | 10/27 | Fri | |||
Week 7 | Discussion | 10/30 | Mon | Matrix inverse | Lay §2.2-2.3 |
Lecture | 10/31 | Tue | Subspaces, null space, column space | Lay §2.8 (optional: §4.1-4.2) | |
Discussion | 11/1 | Wed | Encryption | Encryption Case Study | |
Lecture | 11/2 | Thur | Bases and coordinates | Lay §2.8 (optional: §4.3-4.4) | |
Recitation | 11/3 | Fri | |||
Week 8 | Discussion | 11/6 | Mon | Encryption (continued) | Encryption Case Study |
Lecture | 11/7 | Tue | Dimension and rank | Lay §2.9 (optional: §4.5-4.6) | |
Discussion | 11/8 | Wed | Abstract vector spaces | ||
Lecture | 11/9 | Thur | Inner product, length, orthogonality MIDTERM 2 at 7 p.m. |
Lay §6.1 | |
Recitation | 11/10 | Fri | |||
Week 9 | Discussion | 11/13 | Mon | Orthogonal sets and bases | Lay §6.2 |
Lecture | 11/14 | Tue | Orthogonal projections | Lay §6.3 | |
Discussion | 11/15 | Wed | Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization | Lay §6.4 | |
Lecture | 11/16 | Thur | Least squares | Lay §6.5 | |
Recitation | 11/17 | Fri | |||
Week 10 | Discussion | 11/20 | Mon | Applications of least squares | Lay §6.6 Least Squares Case Study |
Lecture | 11/21 | Tue | Applications of least squares | Lay §6.6 Least Squares Case Study |
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11/22 | Wed | No lecture, discussion, or lab | |||
11/23 | Thur | Thanksgiving break | |||
11/24 | Fri | Thanksgiving break | |||
Week 11 | Discussion | 11/27 | Mon | Inner product spaces | |
Lecture | 11/28 | Tue | Spectral analysis | Digital Audio Case Study §1.1-1.3 | |
Discussion | 11/29 | Wed | Inner product spaces, weighted least squares | ||
Lecture | 11/30 | Thur | Spectral analysis (continued) | Digital Audio Case Study §1.4 | |
Recitation | 12/1 | Fri |
The final exam is on Tuesday, December 5 from 9-11 a.m.