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Course Summary
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Course outline
The curriculum includes:
Operations on one matrix
Linear systems in two unknowns
Linear systems in three unknowns
Matrix dimensions and entries
Representing systems with matrices
Simple row operations
Pivot entries and row-echelon forms
Gauss-Jordan elimination
Number of solutions to the linear system
Operations on two matrices
Matrix addition and subtraction
Scalar multiplication
Zero matrices
Matrix multiplication
Identity matrices
The elimination matrix
Matrices as vectors
Vectors
Vector operations
Unit vectors and basis vectors
Linear combinations and span
Linear independence in two dimensions
Linear independence in three dimensions
Linear subspaces
Spans as subspaces
Basis
Dot products and cross products
Dot products
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
Vector triangle inequality
Angle between vectors
Equation of a plane, and normal vectors
Cross products
Dot and cross products as opposite ideas
Matrix-vector products
Multiplying matrices by vectors
The null space and Ax=O
Null space of a matrix
The column space and Ax=b
Solving Ax=b
Dimensionality, nullity, and rank
Transformations
Functions and transformations
Transformation matrices and the image of the subset
Preimage, image, and the kernel
Linear transformations as matrix-vector products
Linear transformations as rotations
Adding and scaling linear transformations
Projections as linear transformations
Compositions of linear transformations
Inverses
Inverse of a transformation
Invertibility from the matrix-vector product
Inverse transformations are linear
Matrix inverses, and invertible and singular matrices
Solving systems with inverse matrices
Determinants
Determinants
Cramer's rule for solving systems
Modifying determinants
Upper and lower triangular matrices
Using determinants to find area
Transposes
Transposes and their determinants
Transposes of products, sums, and inverses
Null and column spaces of the transpose
The product of a matrix and its transpose
Orthogonality and change of basis
Orthogonal complements
Orthogonal complements of the fundamental subspaces
Projection onto the subspace
Least squares solution
Coordinates in a new basis
Transformation matrix for a basis
Orthonormal bases and Gram-Schmidt
Orthonormal bases
Projection onto an orthonormal basis
Gram-Schmidt process for change of basis
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, Eigenspaces
Eigen in three dimensions
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