Math 202B:  Linear Algebra with MATLAB (Fall 2000)

• I did not assign letter grades to the final exam. The average on the final exam was 56 percent. I will be in my office this week Wednesday 9-11Am and Friday 2-3. If you can't come during those times contact me for an appointment if you want to stop by to discuss your grade or to pick up your final exam.    Solutions to the Final Exam are available.

Code Name                Final Exam                 Grade for MAT202B
Apple                       67%                             B+       
Lpup                        80%                             A-
Monkey                      42%                             B-
SuperNerd                   55%                             B
MaryM                       96%                             A
Fostoria                    92%                             A
Darrell Cook                83%                             A-
Garth Brooks                79%                             B+
7920                        56%                             B+
Mr. Bojangles               35%                             C+
Batman                      42%                             B-
The Bum                     64%                             B+
Jazz                        47%                             B
HAL                         70%                             B+
Yoda                        84%                             A-
LouDP                       36%                             B-
Skelator                    47%                             C
Nigel T.                    52%                             B
Billybob                    72%                             B+
Fatal                       69%                             B+
Jbravo                      82%                             A-
Cactus                      32%                             C
Dan                         68%                             B
Yossarian                   74%                             A-
Pushaw                      67%                             B+
Katharina                   68%                             B+
A.K.A.Beavis                96%                             A
FlowerPuffPuppy             44%                             B
Pedro                       89%                             A-
KaiserSose                  70%                             B+
BMWM3                       76%                             B+

•  syllabus

 
•  homework assignments from Bretscher Note:  Assignments for the last 3 weeks of the semester have been edited.

 
• Note:  The last homework assignment consists only of the problems from sections 8.1 and 8.2 (due Wednesday January 10 at Fine 403 by 5PM.)  You will not be responsible for anything in Chapter 9.

 
• The final exam will be held Sunday, Jan21 from 1 to 4 PM in Jadwin A06.


Office Hours during Reading Period:
Tuesday, January 9 from 1:30 - 3:30 (Fine 403)
Wednesday, January 10 from 1:30 - 3:30 (Fine 403)
Tuesday, January 16 from 1:30 - 3:30 (Fine 403)
Thursday, January 18 from 1:30 - 3:30 (Fine 403)

Notes from the review session held Thursday, January 11 from 1:30 to 3:30 are available in the mailbox outside my office (Fine 403)

A second review session will be held in Fine 214 on Wednesday, January 17 from 1:30 to 3:30.   I will not prepare another overview of the course.   We will focus on questions that you bring in.

Copies of various old quizzes, midterms, finals and extra practice problems from old 202 exams are also available:
 Old quizzes, midterms, finals, practice problems
 

• Lecture notes from Fri Dec 15 are available now:   Continuous Dynamical Systems with Complex Eigenvalues

 
•  Updated grades are now available.  The average for  Quiz 2 was 45.  The curve was:

 

 

A   :  79 - 63      (4)
A-:  62 - 56      (5)
B+:   55 - 53      (3)
B   :   52 - 42      (8)
B-:   41 - 33      (7)
C+:   32 - 27       (5)
C  :   26 - 23        (0)
C-:  22 - 19        (2)
 
 

• The last MATLAB assignment is about matrix powers and defining functions in MATLAB.  It is due by 5PM on the last day of classes.  You should turn in exercises 2, 3,5,6 and 7 of  Matrix Powers .  Note some exercises (more specifically, exercises 6 and 7) do not need MATLAB.

 
•  Grades At Midterm

 
•  Curve for the Midterm Exam

 
• The second MATLAB assignment is about the geometry  of linear transformations and how to plot in MATLAB.  Your assignment will be Exercises 2,3,4,5 and 8 of  Linear Transformations on the Plane .  It will be due on Friday, Nov 10.  Please try to work through the explanatory examples as soon as possible, so that we can discuss any questions you may have.  In this assignment each exercise is worth 20 points.

 
•  If you need to refer to the previous Matlab information they are available:  Intro to Matlab  and Temperature at Equilibrium

 
• Extra MATLAB help is available from Mike Buchanan, a student in the engineering school who has a lot of MATLAB experience.

 
• A copy of the text is on reserve in Fine Library for the rest of the semester.

 
•  some notes on finding inverses
•  notes on elementary matrices and LU decomposition
•  notes of finding a basis for the row space of A  (added October 19)
•  notes on least squares (class notes for October 20)
•  Exercise 33 of Bretscher done in MATLAB (least squares)
•  notes on the coyote/roadrunner problem in MATLAB (handout from Nov 10 class)

 
• The grader for the course is Jeff Schenker.  His office is 404 Fine Hall, extension 6450.  You can leave voice mail for Jeff at that number or you can send him e-mail at schenker@princeton.edu. He will be running evening help sessions in our regular classroom, Fine 314, at 7:30PM on the following dates:

     Tuesday   9/19,   Monday   9/25,  Tuesday   10/3,

     Tuesday  10/10,  Monday   10/16,  Tuesday   11/7,

     Tuesday  11/13,  Monday   11/20,  Monday   11/27,

           Tuesday  12/5,  Monday   12/11

Jeff will also be holding an office hour on Tuesdays from 1 - 2 in room 404 Fine.
 
•  midterm from last spring (in pdf format).