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Math 252 (Calculus III) Lecture Schedule

Friday, October 31, 2003

SCHEDULE CHANGE for Math 252
- CHAPTER 15 MIDTERM & HOMEWORK DATES

As might be expected, the cancellation of classes for nearly a week by the university has necessitated a small postponement in the Chapter 15 Homework due date and the Midterm date.

Also, I have decided that there is too much material in Chapter 15 to test all of it in one 50-minute class period, as a couple of you have mentioned.

However, as I had finished lecturing on all but the last section of Chapter 15 before the fire, I think the following will be approrpiate and sufficient:

1. Ch. 15 Homework is now due Tuesday, Nov. 4 rather than Monday, Nov. 3. It
   must be turned in at the start of class as usual; answers will be posted on this website that afternoon.
2. The Midterm on Chapter 15 will now be Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 5 and 6, rather than Tuesday, Nov. 4. Answers will be posted Thursday afternoon on this website.
3. Tuesday, Nov. 4 will now be the review day for Chapter 15 rather than Mon. Nov. 3.

The test will be a combination of open-ended problems and True-False with justification, still 90 points total; more coverage will be given to 15.3, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, and 15.8 than the other sections. Wednesday's part will be primarily on 15.2 to 15.5 and Thursday's on 15.6 to 15.8.

Next week I will give out a revised list of homework for Ch. 16 and 17, abbreviating the previous one somewhat due to the irrevocably lost time this week.

Tentative Lecture Schedule

Week of Nov. 3

Midterm #3 on Ch. 15

Week of Nov. 10

Sec. 16.1 - 16.4, definition of double integrals, iterated integrals, double integrals over plane regions, double integrals in polar coordinates

Week of Nov. 17

Sec. 16.4, 16.6, 16.7, 16.8: double integrals in polar coordinates, surface area, triple integrals, triple integrals in cylindrical and spherical coordinates

Week of Nov. 24

Sec. 16.8 to 16.9: triple integrals in cylindrical and spherical coordinates, change of variable in double and triple integrals, Jacobians

Sec. 17.1: vector and force fields

Week of Dec. 1

Midterm 4 on Ch. 16; Sec. 17.2 to 17.3: line integrals and their fundamental theorem

Week of Dec. 8

Sec. 17.3 & 17.4: path independence, Green's Theorem

Review for Final Exam

Week of Dec. 15

Final exam, mostly on Chapters 16 & 17, and the rest comprehensive (for which I will have given you a study list the previous week)

Total Possible Points

Course total will be officially 600 points:

• Midterms = 300 points
• Homework = 100 points
• Final exam = 200 points

There will be lots of homework, necessary at this level to make sense of the concepts. I am still working on the homework and its mechanics; check back the week of Aug. 25 and some detail on homework should be available.

Previous Weeks

Week of Sept. 2

Sec. 13.1 to 13.3: 3-D coordinates, vectors, dot product

Week of Sept. 8

Sec. 13.4 to 13.6: cross product, lines and planes, cylinders and quadric surfaces

Week of Sept. 15

Sec. 13.6 to 13.7: quadric surfaces, cylindrical and spherical coordinates

Sec. 14.1 to 14.2: Curves in n-space as parametrized vectors, derivatives and integrals of vector functions

Week of Sept. 22

Midterm 1 on Ch. 13; Sec. 14.3 to 14.4: arc length and curvature, tangent and normal vectors, velocity and acceleration

Week of Sept. 29

Sec. 14.4: Kepler's Laws; Sec. 15.1 to 15.2: limits and continuity of functions of several variables

Week of Oct. 6

Midterm 2 on Ch. 14; Sec. 15.2 to 15.4: differentiability of ƒ(x,y,z), partial derivatives, linear approximations, tangent planes

Week of Oct. 13

Sec. 15.4 to 15.6: the various forms of the chain rule for functions of several variables, the differential of such functions, directional derivatives

Week of Oct. 20

Sec. 15.6 to 15.8: the gradient, maxima and minima, saddle points, the method of Lagrange multipliers for finding extrema subject to a constraint

Week of Oct. 27

Sec. 16.1 to 16.3: double integrals defined, over rectangles and plane regions, iterated integrals

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October 31, 2003

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