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TCD Mathematics

School of Mathematics

1S2: Discrete Mathematics I for Scientists


Solutions to tutorial sheets

Will appear here.

Tutorial Sheet 1 [October 22 - 26]
The first tutorial [or exercise] sheet (on systems of linear equations) is available here in PDF format. And here with solutions.
Tutorial Sheet 2 [October 30 - November 5]
More on Gaussian elimination. Start of vectors.
Tutorial Sheet 3 [November 7 - 12]
Coordinates in space, lengths of vectors, distances.
Tutorial Sheet 4 [November 14 - 19]
Dot products, projections, equation of a plane.
Tutorial Sheet 5 [November 21 - 26]
Lines and planes in space.
Tutorial Sheet 6 [November 29 - December 3]
Manipulation of vectors (or points) in n-space; matrix operations (addition, mulliplication by scalars, matrix multiplication).
Tutorial Sheet 7 [January 7 - 11]
Matrix version of systems of linear equations; inverses of matrices.
Tutorial Sheet 8 [January 14 - 18]
Calculations with doagonal and triangular matrices. Inverse of a product.
Tutorial Sheet 9 [January 21 - 25]
Trace and transpose. Determinants by cofactors.
Tutorial Sheet 10 January 28 - February 1]
Determinants, applications to areas and volumes.
Tutorial Sheet 11 February 4 - 8]
Cross products. Application of determinants to finding equations.
Tutorial Sheet 12 February 11 - 15]
Vertex matrix of a graph. Counting in bases 2, 8 and 16.
Tutorial Sheet 13 February 18 - 22]
Conversion between binary, octal and hex numbers. 32 bit representations.
Tutorial Sheet 14 February 25 - 29]
Conversion of fractions to binary. Orthogonal matrices (products and determinants of them).
Tutorial Sheet 15 March 3 - 8]
3 by 3 rotation matrices (are orthogonal, have determinant 1, inverse is rotation by minus the angle, determinant of change of basis matrix P).
Tutorial Sheet 16 March 31 - April 4]
3 by 3 rotation matrices (same as orthogonal of determinant 1; find angle and axis given matrix). Gram-Schmidt method for othonormalisation.
Tutorial Sheet 17 April 7 - 11]
Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, diagonalisation.
Tutorial Sheet 18 April 14 - 18]
Powers and exponentials of diagonalisable matrices. Systems of linear first order differential equations.
Tutorial Sheet 19 April 21 - 25]
Systems of linear first order differential equations. Least squares fit.
Tutorial Sheet 20 April 28 - May 2]
Probability.