Dr. Phillip E. Parker

Office: 330 JB
Office hours: 12:30-1:20 MWF and by appointment
Phone: 978-3955 (home 942-7694 afternoons and before midnight)
Email: phil@math.wichita.edu
URL: http://www.math.wichita.edu/~pparker/classes/

Text: Linear Algebra with Applications, 7^th ed. by S. J. Leon.

Coverage: Chapters 1--6, omitting 2.3, 5.7 and 6.5--8, rather lightly through 5.3 and 6.2, at one section per day initially, a bit slower in Chapters 5 and 6; viz. II.A on p. xiv of the text.

Grading: There will be five in-class, closed-book exams: four "hour tests" (15% each) and a comprehensive final (40%). The hour tests will be 18 Sept (Chapts. 1--2), 16 Oct (Chapt. 3), 13 Nov (Chapts. 4 & part of 5), and 4 Dec (rest of Chapt. 5 & part of 6). The comprehensive final exam will be on 14 Dec at 10:00 am in the usual classroom. Cut percentages for letter grades are 90, 80, 60, and 50; they may be lowered at the instructor's discretion.

Attendance is assumed and excessive absences will adversely affect your course grade. Homework will not be collected; you'll do it thoroughly if you want to pass.

You may take an hour test early for any reason merely by requesting it well in advance. Make-up (late) tests will be possible ONLY in case of a bona fide emergency beyond your control. If it is at all physically possible, I must be notified before class time on the day on which it is to be given. Subsequently, you must provide suitable documentation before being allowed to schedule a make-up test.