MATH 3000 (Azoff) Fall
2009
Study
Guide for Chapters 1 and 2 (First Hour Test)
Definitions
Rn
unit vector
line in Rn (parametric form)
hyperplane in Rn (cartesian or normal form)
linear combination of vectors
dot product of vectors
orthogonal (or perpendicular) vectors
angle between (non-zero) vectors
elementary row operations
echelon and reduced echelon matrices, pivot
rank of a matrix
singular, non-singular matrices
linear transformation
standard matrix of a linear transformation
elementary matrices
inverses and one-sided inverses of matrices
transpose
symmetric matrix
Basic Computations
operations on scalars, vectors and matrices
matrix reduction
solving systems of linear equations
translating problems involving lines, planes, curve fitting, linear
combinations and matrix equations to systems of linear equations
passing between cartesian and parametric representatios of lines and
planes
projections and angles between vectors
finding matrices of projections, reflections, and rotations in R2
computing inverses of matrices
Conceptual understanding
existence and uniquenes of solutions to Ax=b
good and bad features of vector and matrix operations, especially
multiplication
construction of examples and counterexamples