Instructor:

John Mitchell, Amos Eaton 325, x6915, mitchj@rpi.edu

Teaching Assistants:

Xiaoyun Ji, sections 5 and 7, jix@rpi.edu

Shawne Campbell, sections 6 and 8, campbs@rpi.edu

• Grades are now available on SIS. You can find your score on the final here; this is a section-by-section list of exam scores, sorted within each section by the score on the final. You can identify yourself by matching up your scores on the first three exams with a row of the table.
• Course outline.
• Course schedule.
• Office hours.
• Placement of a supercomputer in the list of the Top 500 is based on solution of a dense system of linear equations.
• Homeworks (this is now a link).
• Exams: As you would expect, no collaboration is permitted on the exams or the final exam.
  • Final exam coverage: You are responsible for everything listed on the course schedule. The exam will consist of three compulsory questions on linear algebra and six additional questions. The additional questions will be evenly split between multivariable calculus and matrix algebra, and you can choose any three of them.
  • The final exam is scheduled for 11.30-2.30 on Thursday, December 11, in DCC 308. You will be able to bring four sheets of handwritten 8.5x11 notes, written on both sides.
  • The final exam from Spring 2002 along with its solution. (Look here for the solution to question 9(c).)
  • Exam 1 from Spring 2002, along with its solution.
  • Exam 1 will be in class on Friday, September 19. You can bring one sheet of handwritten 8.5x11 notes; you can write on both sides. It will cover sections 12.3, 12.5-12.10, and 13.1-13.4.
  • Solutions to exam 1: version A, version B, and version C.
  • Exam 2 will be in class on Wednesday, October 8. It will cover sections 14.1-14.4 from the text.
  • Exam 2 from Spring 2002, along with solutions to questions 1 and 2 and questions 3 and 4.
  • Solutions to exam 2: version A, version B, and version C.
  • Exam 3 will be in class on Wednesday, November 5. It will cover the sections covered in class between October 10 and October 31.
  • Exam 3 from Spring 2002, along with its solutions. (Look here for the solution to question 2(a).)
  • Solutions to exam 3: version A, version B, and version C.
• Handouts:
  • Chapter 12 Maple handouts.
  • Finding Lagrange multipliers.
  • Chapter 14 Maple handouts.
• Other resources:
  • Maple resources.
  • Applications of finding max and min values.