Guia docente 2023_24
Escola Superior de Enxeñaría Informática
Grado en Ingeniería Informática
 Subjects
  Mathematics: Linear algebra
   Expected results from this subject
Expected results from this subject Training and Learning Results
RA1. To know how to use gaussian elimination to find an echelon form and the reduced echelon form of a matrix. A2
B8
C1
C3
C12
D4
D6
D11
RA2. To understand and to know how to solve the questions of existence, uniqueness and universal existence for the systems of linear equations. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA3. To understand the matrix product and its relationship with the composition of linear maps as well as to know its algebraic properties and its applications. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA4. To understand what means for a matrix to have a right inverse, a left inverse or being invertible. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA5. To know how to operate with block matrices and to know its properties and applications. A3
B8
B9
C1
C3
D4
D6
D7
D11
RA6. To understand the concept of determinant of a square matrix, its properties and how to use those properties to calculate a determinant. To know how to calculate a determinant by the method of cofactors. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA7. To understand the concept of vector space and that of linear map as well as the relationship between the concepts of kernel and image of a linear map and those of null space and column space of a matrix. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA8. To understand the relationship between the questions of universal existence and uniqueness of solutions of a system of linear equations and the questions of subspace generated by and linear independence of the columns of a matrix, as well as the relationship between those and the properties of surjectivity and inyectivity of a linear map. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA9. To find a basis of the null space / column space of a matrix or of the kernel / image space of a linear map. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA10. To find the cartesian equations of a subspace determined by means of generators and to find a basis and the cartesian equations of the sum or intersection of two subspaces of R^n. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA11. To find the coordinates of a vector with respect to a given basis and to find the change of coordinates matrix from a given basis to another one. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA12. To know how to use coordinates to translate problems in abstract vector spaces to problems in R^n. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA13. To find the matrix of an endomorphism of a vector space relative to a given basis and to know how to determine the effect of a change of basis on the matrix of the endomorphism. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA14. To understand the concept of diagonalization of a square matrix and its application to the calculation of powers of a square matrix and, in general, to the evaluation of a polynomial function on a square matrix. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA15. To understand the concept of eigenvector and eigenvalue of a square matrix. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA16. To know how to find the characteristic polynomial of a square matrix, its relationship with the eigenvalues and the spectrum of the matrix and the concept of algebraic multiplicity of the eigenvalues. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA17. To know how to find a basis of the eigenspace of an eigenvalue of a square matrix and to know how to find a diagonalization of a matrix whose eigenvalues are known. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA18. To understand the concepts of scalar product and orthogonality in R^n and to understand the null space of a matrix as the orthogonal space to the row space of the matrix. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA19. To calculate the orthogonal projection of a vector on the ray of a nonzero vector and to know how to use such projections to orthogonalize a basis of a subspace of R^n by the Gram-Schmidt algorithm. A2
B8
C1
C12
D4
D6
D11
RA20. To understand the problem of least squares associated with an inconsistent system of linear equations and to solve it by means of the corresponding normal equations. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA21. To know the orthogonality properties of the eigenspaces of a symmetric matrix and to know how to use them to find an orthogonal diagonalization of a symmetric matrix. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA22. To understand the concept of quadratic form and to know how to represent it by means of a symmetric matrix. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA23. To understand the concept of change of variable for a quadratic form and to know how to find its effect on the corresponding symmetric matrix. A2
B8
C1
D4
D6
D11
RA24. To know how to find a diagonalization of a quadratic form and to know how to use it to classify it and to determine its maximum an minimum values on unit vectors. A2
B8
C1
D4
D5
D6
D11
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