Learning objectives

• Work with the special properties of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of symmetric matrices (spectral theorem)

Before class

• Read Lay section 7.1
• Consult notes to the textbook (if you wish)
• Ponder Lay problems 7.1: 1, 3, 7, 9, 17, 25 , 27.
• Post to Piazza
• Please write an essay containing one page for each of two capstone talks that you attended on Wednesday.

In class

• Turn in essay on capstone talks.
• Problems on symmetric matrices
• Application to physics of springs