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Georgia Tech11 Verified Students5 posts
Systems of equations, matrices, determinants, eigenvalues and linear transformations.
Linear algebra rewards consistency more than cramming. The concepts build on each other, so falling behind on row reduction made eigenvalues much harder later. My routine: do practice problems a few days a week and check every row operation carefully. Most of my mistakes were arithmetic, not concepts. Around 8 hours a…
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I can compute things, but I don't "see" what a transformation does. Did anyone find a way to visualize them that helped? Right now I'm just memorizing which matrix rotates and which one shears.