Subject Database

Subject Code:	MAT2LIN
Subject Short Title:	LINEAR ALGEBRA
Credit Points:	15.0
Subject Description:	In MAT2LIN you will use linear algebra as a tool and language for understanding and solving problems from a wide variety of disciplines. Matrices and systems of linear equations are introduced, and you will see how the familiar notions of point, line, plane and distance can be generalised. Fundamental ideas such as linear independence, basis, eigenvalues and orthogonality are studied. Applications of these ideas will be made to areas such as resource allocation, network analysis, population growth, environmental management, linear recurrences, Markov chains and least-squares curve fitting.
Prerequisites:	MAT1CB
Incompatibles:	MAT2LAL
Class Requirements:	three 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Work Experience Indicator:	Student is not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 2.5 hour examination	50
Assignment 1 (written solutions to prescribed problems)	20
Assignment 2 (written solutions to prescribed problems)	20
3 short (5-10 min) oral presentations, each consisting of the solution to a prescribed problem	10	Hurdle requirement: Students must satisfactorily complete 2 of the 3 oral presentations

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Prescribed	Linear algebra: a modern introduction	Poole, D, 2011	3rd edn, Thomson Brooks/Cole, Boston, MA

Subject Coordinator: Dr Simon Smith

Subject Availability
BENDIGO
	Semester 2, Day. Dr Simon Smith (S.Smith@latrobe.edu.au)