Linear Algebra - MATH2501

 
Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Mathematics and Statistics
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: MATH1231 or MATH1241 or MATH1251; Exclusion: MATH2099
 
 
Excluded: MATH2509, MATH2601
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Vector spaces, linear transformations, change of basis. Inner products, orthogonalization, reflections and QR factorizations. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization. Jordan forms and functions of matrices. Applications to linear systems of differential equations, quadratics, rotations.