Course Materials: Problems Sets, Exams, Review Materials
- See the course Stellar site for additional materials:
https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/18/fa17/18.0851/ - Highlights of Linear Algebra
Homework 1
Homework 1 for 18.085 will be due at the start of class Thursday Sept 14
PLEASE PRINT your name CLEARLY at the top --- family name last.
Any format is acceptable for the Matlab part in this homework
3 problems 2 4 10 from Highlights of Linear Algebra
Problems 5 12 15 21 from Section 1.1 of the text and #3 from Section 1.2 (PDF link)
Homework 2
Homework 2 For Thursday Sept 21
Section 1.3 9, 10, 11, 15, 16
Section 1.4 1, 4, 9, 11, 13, 14
Section 1.5 9, 13, 30
Homework 3
Homework 3 for Thursday September 28
Homework 3 (PDF link)Section 1.6 3, 10, 12, 13, 16, 20, 27
I chose those 7 questions form Section 1.6 and you could look at others. Section 1.7 explains orthogonal matrices Q (inverse equals transpose) --- I will do that in class but not on homework. Then we move to Section 2.1 and these homework questions:
Section 2.1 3, 4, 7, 8 plus this final question:
Create a finite difference approximation with nodes at x= 0, h, 2h, 3h, 4h=1
- d/dx ( c(x) du/dx ) = f(x) with u(0) = 5 and du/dx (1) = 0