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21-259 Calculus in Three Dimensions

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Schedule and Homework

For each week there will be a link to a page with a reading assignment and a homework assignment. This schedule is tentative. It will get more accurate as the semester progresses. No week's topics should be taken as final until the homework is linked.

Week #1:
Jan 16 - 20
Assignments
M: Martin Luther King Day. No class.
W: Three-Dimensional Coordinate Systems (12.1)
F: Class will not meet on Friday, January 20.
Week #2:
Jan 23 - 27
Assignments
M: Vectors (12.2)
W: The Dot Product (12.3)
F: The Cross Product (12.4)
Week #3:
Jan 30 - Feb 3
Assignments
M: Equations of Lines and Planes (12.5)
W: Cylinders and Quadratic Surfaces (12.6)
F: Vector Functions and Space Curves (13.1-13.2)
Week #4:
Feb 6 - 10
Assignments
M: Arc Length and Curvature (13.3)
W: Motion in Space: Velocity and Acceleration (13.4)
F: Functions of Several Variables (14.1)
Week #5:
Feb 13 - 17
Assignments
Exam Review
M: Limits and Continuity (14.2)
W: Partial Derivatives (14.3)
F: Exam #1 is scheduled for Friday, February 17, at 7:30am.
F: (Makeup Lecture) Tangent Planes and Linear Approximations (14.4)
Week #6:
Feb 20 - 24
Assignments
M: The Chain Rule (14.5)
W: Directional Derivatives and the Gradient Vector (14.6)
F: Directional Derivatives and the Gradient Vector (14.6)
Week #7:
Feb 27 - Mar 3
Assignments
M: Maximum and Minimum Values (14.7)
W: Lagrange Multipliers (14.8)
F: Lagrange Multipliers [Continued] (14.8)
Week #8:
Mar 6 - 10
Assignments
M: Double Integrals over Rectangles (15.1)
W: Double Integrals over General Regions (15.2)
F: Mid-Semester Break. No Class.
Spring Break:
Mar 13 - 17
Spring Break!
Week #9:
Mar 20 - 24
Assignments
Exam Review
M: Double Integrals in Polar Coordinates (15.3)
W: Surface Area (15.5)
F: Exam #2 is scheduled for Friday, March 24 at 7:30am.
Week #10:
Mar 27 - 31
Assignments
M: Triple Integrals (15.6)
W: Determining Limits of Integration
F: Triple Integrals in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates (15.7 - 15.8)
Week #11:
Apr 3 - 7
Assignments
M: Change of Variables in Multiple Integrals (15.9)
W: Vector Fields (16.1)
F: Line Integrals (16.2)
Week #12:
Apr 10 - 14
Assignments
Exam Review
M: The Fundamental Theorem for Line Integrals (16.3)
W: Green's Theorem (16.4)
R: Exam #3 is scheduled for Thursday, April 13 at 7:30am.
F: Curl and Divergence (16.5)
Week #13:
Apr 17 - 21
M: Parametric Surfaces and Their Areas (16.6)
W: No Class, to make up for out of class time Exam #3.
F: Spring Carnival. No class.
Week #14:
Apr 24 - 28
Homework
M: Surface Integrals (16.7)
W: Stokes' Theorem (16.8)
F: The Divergence Theorem (16.9)
Week #15:
May 1 - 5
Homework
M: Summary (16.10)
W:
F:
Final Exam
Exam Review
The Final Exam has been scheduled for Tuesday, May 9, from 8:30-11:30am. in CUC McConomy. Please take this into account when making your travel plans.