MATH 102 - Algebra

SCHEDULE

Note: This is a fall or spring schedule. In summer, this schedule is accelerated by a factor of 3 in order to accommodate a 5-week session.

• Week 1 -- Chapter 1 Review, Section 2.1. Topics covered: equations and inequalities.
  
  
• Week 2 -- Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4. Topics covered: applications of equations, quadratic equations, complex numbers.
  
  
• Week 3 -- Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.6. Topics covered: other equations, inequalities.
  
  
• Week 4 -- Sections 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, EXAM 1. Topics covered: rectangular coordinate systems and graphs.
  
  
• Week 5 -- Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5. Topics covered: lines and functions
  
  
• Week 6 -- Sections 3.6, 3.7, 3.8. Topics covered: quadratic functions, operations on functions and inverse functions.
  
  
• Week 7 -- Sections 3.9, 4.1, 4.2. Topics covered: variation, polynomials.
  
  
• Week 8 -- Sections 4.3, 4.4, EXAM 2. Topics covered: zeros of polynomials, complex roots.
  
  
• Week 9 -- Sections 4.5, 5.1. Topics covered: rational functions, exponential functions.
  
  
• Week 10 - Sections 5.2, 5.3, 5.4. Topics covered: more on exponentials, logarithms.
  
  
• Week 11 - Sections 5.4, 5.5, 6.1. Topics covered: exponential and logarithmic equations, systems of equations.
  
  
• Week 12 - Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, EXAM 3. Topics covered: systems of linear equations and inequalities.
  
  
• Week 13 - Sections 6.6, 6.7, 6.8. Topics covered: algebra of matrices, inverse of a matrix, determinants
  
  
• Week 14 - Sections 6.9, 7.1. Topics covered: more on determinants, infinite sequences
  
  
• Week 15 - Sections 7.2, 7.3. Topics covered: arithmetic and geometric sequences.