Spring 2005 INEN 420: Operations Research I
Instructor: Dr. Lewis Ntaimo
Date: Tuesday 18, 2005
Due: Thursday 20, 2005
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Major:
Hometown:
Why are you interested in taking this course?
Plan on going to graduate school?
Interesting fact about yourself:
Programming Languages (Matlab, C, C++, Java, etc):
What is OR?
What is a rank of a matrix?
What is Stochastic Programming?
REVIEW ASSIGNMENT
Date: January 18, 2005
Basic Linear Algebra
Please read Chapter 2 this week.
Summary:
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Matrices and Vectors
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Matrix Operations (e.g. addition, multiplication, transpose, determinant, inverse)
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Matrices and Systems of Linear Equations
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The Gauss-Jordan Method for Solving Systems of Linear Equations
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ERO: Elementary Row Operations
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Basic Variables (Nonbasic Variables) and Solutions to Linear Equation Systems
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Linear Independence and Linear Dependence
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The Rank of a Matrix
Review Problems (Page 47):
Problems 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 13.