COURSE OUTLINE: LINEAR ALGEBRA

School INIESAT
Department Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering
Programme HND 1
Course Title Linear Algebra
Course Code
Professor’s name MBIEDA NGOMEGNI Frank Gaetan
Qualification PhD Candidate in Electronics and Electrical Systems
Contact: Telephone No (+237) 694331118 / 675243120
Email address fgngomegni@gmail.com / nfrankz@yahoo.fr
Credit Value
Credit Hours
Level Level 1
Semester First Semester
Date 25 Novembre 2022
Course Description Or
Synopsis
COURSE OBJECTIVES Give the Students the Mathematical background required for them to solve physical daily life problems and challenges.

Provide the motivation and basic computational tools for the abstract investigations of vectors

EXPECTED OUTCOME Matrices; Systems of linear Equations; Inverse matrices; Deteriminants; Cofactor expansion; Vector spaces;
linear transfiormation; Eigen values Eigen vectors

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WEEK DATE TOPIC SUBJECT MATTER(CONTENT) SOURCE DURATION
One MATRICES 1.1 Definitions and Notation Differential 4 hrs
1.1.1 Row and Column vectors equations and
1.1.2 n × n matrices linear algebra by
1.2 Matrix Algebra Stephen W. Goode
1.2.1Addition and Subtraction of Matrices and Multiplication of P. 167-185
matrices by a scalar
1.2.2Multiplication of matrices AQA P. 1-24
1.3Properties of transpose
1.4 Results for triangular matrices

2.1 Terminology, Definition and notation of systems of linear

equations
Differential
SYSTEMS OF 2.1.1 Vector Formulation equations and
LINEAR EQUATIONS linear algebra by
2.2 Elementary row operations and row-echelon matrices
Stephen W. Goode
2.2.1 Elementary row operations
P. 185-197
2.2.2 Row-echelon matrices

AQA P. 81-95
Two Tutorials session Differential 4 hrs
equations and
linear algebra by
SYSTEMS OF 2.2.3 The rank of a matrix Stephen W. Goode
LINEAR EQUATIONS

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 2.2.4 Reduced Row-echelon matrices P. 197-211

Three 2.3 Gaussian elimination Differential 4 hrs

equations and
2.4Homogenous linear system linear algebra by
Stephen W. Goode

Tutorials session P. 197-211

Four Tutorial session 4 hrs

Five INVERSE MATRICES 3.1 Inverse of a square Differential 4 hrs

equations and
3.1.1 Gauss-Jordan Technique
linear algebra by
3.1.2 Properties of the inverse Stephen W. Goode

3.1.3 Some further theoretical results P. 212-221

Tutorial session AQA P. 72-80

Six DETERMINANTS 4.1 The definition of determinant Differential 4 hrs

equations and
4.2 Geometric interpretations of the determinants of orders linear algebra by
two and three Stephen W. Goode
4.3 Properties of determinants P. 233-253
4.4 Theoretical results for n × n matrices and n × n linear

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 systems
4.5Properties of determinants AQA P. 35-46

Tutorial session
Seven 5.1 The Adjoint method for A−1 Differential 4 hrs
equations and
COFACTOR EXPANSIONS 5.2 Cramer’s rule linear algebra by
Stephen W. Goode

Tutorial session P. 253-270

Eight 6.1 Definition of a vector spaces Differential 4 hrs

equations and
VECTOR SPACES 6.2 Vector spaces in Rn linear algebra by
6.3 Subspaces Stephen W. Goode

6.4 Spanning sets P. 270-354

6.5 The linear span of a set of vectors

6.6 linear dependence and independence

Nine Tutorial session 4 hrs

Ten 6.7 Bases and Dimension Differential 4 hrs

equations and
VECTOR SPACES 6.8 Row Space and Column Space linear algebra by

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 6.9 The Rank-Nullity Theorem Stephen W. Goode
P. 270-354

Tutorial session

Eleven 7.1 Definition of a linear transformation Differential 4 hrs

equations and
LINEAR 7.2 Kernel and Range of a linear transformation
linear algebra by
TRANSFORMATION
7.3 Further properties of linear transformation Stephen W. Goode
P. 355-385

Tutorial session
Twelve Differential 4 hrs
equations and
EIGEN 8.1 Definition linear algebra by
VALUE/EIGEN
8.2 Characteristic polynomial Stephen W. Goode
VECTOR
8.3 Diagonalization P. 387-410

AQA P. 96-113
Tutorial session
Thirteen End Of Course End Of Course Examination 4 hrs
Examination

MODE OF EVALUATION

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 Attendance 5%
 Participation 5%
 Continuous Assessment 20%
 Final semester exam 70%

REFERENCES:
Differential equations and linear algebra by Stephen W. Goode
AQA Further Mathematics Notes

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