Estimated workload for the course is 200 hours, including lecture attendance. If you want to solve every single problem on the assignment sheets you may have to work considerably more.
Examination: Weekly homework assigments sheets will appear here. Eight assignments in total. Each assignment consists of several problems. Some problems are marked PF and are meant for Practice and Feedback. The PF-problems may help you to to get a better understanding, but your results here do not influence your final grade in any way. Other problems are marked E, meaning Examination. The number of E-points you collect will determine your final grade. Students at the Faculty of Science need 20 points for the grade 'G' and 35 points for the grade 'VG'. Students at LTH need 20 points for the grade '3', 30 points for the grade '4', and 40 points for the grade '5'. Upon request you could also get an ECTS-grade according to: 40 points for 'A', 35 points for 'B', 30 points for 'C', 25 points for 'D', and 20 points for 'E'.
The number of points attached to the E-problems do not reflect their difficulty. Simple and hard problems give about the same number of points. The reason is that it should not be too hard to pass the course and that I do not want you to get desperate and angry when/if you get stuck on hard problems. All problems, in total, give circa 55 points. So you can safely skip a few difficult problems even if you aim at the highest grade.
The assignment problems should be solved and handed in individually and the solutions should be legible. Of course, you are allowed to discuss solution strategies with each other but I do not want to see individual solutions that are merely copies of each other. I reserve the right to have oral examinations with students, and in extreme cases fail students, who hand in solutions which are very similar, are not legible, or in some other way suggest that their authors do not at all understand them. Hopefully, this will not happen...
MATLAB for home use: Please check Gemensamma programvaror LTH.
A few words about the prerequisites in linear algebra and MATLAB: One basic undergraduate course, approximately five weeks of full time study (7.5 ECTS), of Linear Algebra is necessary. The same goes for MATLAB. About five weeks of full time experience is sufficient. If you are good at some other programming language intended for scientific computing, for example C, Fortran, or Python, one week of MATLAB experience is probably enough.
Johan Helsing