MATH 1850U – Linear Algebra for Engineers

Develops the fundamental ideas of linear algebra and demonstrates their applications to other areas. Topics include the algebra of matrices; systems of linear equations; determinants and matrix inverses; real and complex vector spaces, linear independence, bases, dimension and co-ordinates; inner product spaces and the Gram-Schmidt process; least squares and regression; linear maps and matrices, change of basis and similar matrices; eigenvalues, eigenvectors and matrix diagonalization; quadratic forms.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 1.5
Corequisite(s): MATH 1000U or MATH 1010U
Credit restriction(s): BUSI 1900U, MATH 2050U