The EE103 lecture notes and course reader for the 2009-10 Fall Quarter are available here in pdf. For all other course information, homework assignments, and solutions please consult the EEweb course website.

Course reader

The reader can be downloaded in a single pdf file. Printed copies are available from UCLA Academic Publishing.

The following Matlab files are needed for some of the exercises: ch1ex19.m, ch1ex20.m, ch7ex21.m, ch8ex8.m, ch9ex3.m, ch9ex4.m, ch9ex7.m, ch9ex8.m, ch9ex9.m, ch13ex4.m, ch14ex1.m, ch14ex5.m. mylu.m, chop.m.

Lectures notes

The lecture notes will be posted here before each lecture. These notes give a summary of the material covered in the lectures.

1. Vectors

2. Matrices

3. Linear equations

4. Triangular matrices

5. The Cholesky factorization

6. The LU factorization

7. The condition number

8. Linear least-squares

9. The solution of a least-squares problem

10. The QR factorization

11. Least-norm problems

12. Nonlinear equations with one variable

13. Newton’s method for sets of nonlinear equations

14. Unconstrained optimization

15. Nonlinear least-squares

Typos

Known typos in the course reader.

• Page 73, line 12 of 6.1: should be .

• Page 74, line 2: the second term on the righthand side should be .