Click here for the course outline, and here for a pdf copy.
Dec. 13 - I wasn't able to book a room for any kind of large session, but I will be completely available on Monday between 1pm and 8pm to meet. I'll be in my office (Kassar 015) or out and about on the main floor of the department. Email me if you are worried about finding me and want to set up a meeting time.
Dec. 10 - Your graded homeworks and quizes are in a box outside my office (Kassar 015). The final exam is Tuesday December 16th at 2:00pm in List 120. If you have any conflict with the exam time, please let me know ASAP.
Dec. 5 - I handed out a list of review problems in class. If you were not in class and would like a copy, please email me.
Dec. 1 - I made some sketched out solutions to questions 5 and 23 from section 15.5 in the text here.
Nov. 18 - I updated the reading and homework schedule.
Nov. 5 - I updated the reading schedule. Also, solutions for midterm 2 can be found here.
Nov. 3 - I just got your homeworks/quizes from ding's section! They are in my office. Feel free to come by and see me between 3:30 and 4:30 in Kassar 015. I will leave them outside that room afterwards and I will have them at my office hours and at the MRC tonight.
Oct. 29 - A reminder that midterm 2 is scheduled for this Tuesday (Nov. 4) in Metcalf Auditorium from 7:00pm - 8:30pm. If you have some special circumstances requiring you to write the exam an hour earlier or an hour later, please EMAIL ME by Friday. Also, I will be adding office hours tomorrow (Thursday) from 4pm-5pm in the lobby of Kassar House (knock on the door if it is locked). Friday I will talk about adding further office hours in class.
Oct. 5 - A solution to the chain rule section question 47, thanks to Xiangxiong Zhang, can be found here.
Oct. 3 - The handout from today on the chain rule can be found here. My handwritten solutions can be found here. They are a scan, so it is a pretty big download (about 2 megs). We will be holding an extra help/review session this Sunday from 4pm-8pm in B&H 168. Ding (my TA) will be presiding over it from 4pm-8pm, at which time you can get your latest quiz/homework back. I will be presiding over it from 6pm-8pm. Finally, the midterm will be held in the Metcalf Auditorium. For information, click here.
Oct. 1 - I will be holding office hours tomorrow (Thursday) at 6pm in Kassar 105. I am willing to stay as late as 8pm.
Sept. 24 - Homework for next week added. Reading assignments added on calendar.
Here are some videos to watch. Some are fun, some are boring. All might be enlightening.
Carl Sagan at his best.
4th Dimension 101.
A 2d animation of the 3d shadow of a 4d cube.
Imagining the 10th dimension, parts 1 and 2.
Sept. 17 - Homework for next week added.
Sept. 15 - Reading assignments added on calendar. Feedback page added. Please use this to tell me how you think the course is going. Give some positives, give some negatives. Tell me what exactly you think can improve.
Sept. 10 - Homework updated on assignment calendar.
Sept. 9 - ROOM CHANGE: I got us a new room. Beginning tomorrow we will be in CIT 227. It is on the second floor of the CIT building, and a bit tough to find in my opinion. But... there are awesome whiteboards, which means colors!! Make sure to show up early so you have time to find it. And tell people who should know.
Sept. 8 - I updated the reading list on the assignments calendar. Also, my friend in the department made a nice 25 page review of math 0100. Reading this should bring you up to date on everything you would need to understand as a prereq. for this course, especially sections 1, 2, and 5. You can download it here.
Sept. 5 - Part 3 - I've been talking to the department about our registration/small classroom situation, and it is being looked at. I'm going to refrain from handing out registration overrides until at least Tuesday, even to people who I know really need it. Don't worry, I am keeping a list. If you emailed me about it, you are on my list. If not, email me if you are worried. I'm going to do my best to make sure everyone who wants to take this course can take this course, so please be patient and keep on attending, even if that means sitting on the floor for the next few classes until I can sort things out with the administration.
Sept. 5 - Part 2 - We have assigned you each a recitation conference. The recitation conferences are given at the following times:
C01 Tu. 9:00-9:50 Wilson Hall 304
C03 Tu. 12:00-12:50 Barus & Holley 165
C04 Tu. 12:00-12:50 Barus & Holley 163
C05 Tu. 4:00-4:50 Barus & Holley 157
All the assignments are given on this list. If you do not see your name on this list and are still interested in taking this class, please email me. It is either because you did not show up to class on Friday or for some odd reason I did not have a timetable sheet with your name on it (some didn't have a name). We noticed that some of you are sitting in on two sections of math 0180, so you might be placed in two different recitation conferences. Please choose only one to go to, and stick to it. In these recitation conferences, you will be HANDING IN YOUR HOMEWORK and TAKING A QUIZ. This is the only time you may do these things, so you must attend.
Sept. 5 - Part 1 - Here are some videos to watch if you feel up to it. The first one is some review about vectors I found on youtube:
It's boring, but her voice is sooooo soothing. The second is just funny:
Aug. 31 - The Course outline was added to the website. Also, the extra help and homework calendar sections were added to the website.
Instructor: Steffen Marcus Office: 015 Kassar House (on Thayer across from the Ratty) Phone: 401 863-7949 Email:
Office Hours: Monday 7:00pm - 8:00pm (or by appointment)
Website: http://www.math.brown.edu/~ssmarcus/math0180/
All course information and announcements will be posted on this website. It also contains information that may help you succeed in this course. I'll assume you are keeping up to date with its contents.
Text: Edwards & Penney, Multivariable Calculus 6e, Prentice-Hall, (2002)
We will cover chapters 12 - 15.
Optional Text: H. M. Schey, div, grad, curl and all that, W.W. Norton & Company.
This is a personal recommendation and is entirely optional. It covers the material in chapter 15 in a nice and informal way from a "physics-y" point of view.
Prerequisites: Math 0100 or 0170, or a 4 or 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam. If you have any questions about math "placement", check http://www.math.brown.edu/mathguide.html.
Goals: The main goal of the course is to provide an introduction to the techniques and methods of calculus in more than one variable. By the end of the course, I hope you will have learned how to at least:
describe basic geometry in two and three dimensions using vectors.
identify and graph common shapes, surfaces and volumes in two and three dimensions defined by functions and relations.
use multivariable calculus to study functions in two and three variables and to solve simple optimization problems.
change coordinates freely in two and three dimensions.
evaluate double and triple integrals, and change coordinates to make their evaluation easier.
evaluate line integrals and surface integrals and apply Green's Theorem, the Divergence Theorem, and Stokes' Theorem to these integrals.
Evaluation:
5% recitation session quizzes
15% weekly homework
20% midterm 1
20% midterm 2
40% final exam
I reserve the right to change the grading scheme as I see fit. Any other grading scheme I use will only be beneficial to your grade as compared to the above standard.
Recitations: There will be a weekly recitation every Tuesday. This is where you hand in homework, collect graded work, take a weekly quiz, and work through examples with the Teaching Assistant (TA).
Attendance: I will operate under the assumption that you are attending all lectures and recitation sessions. I certainly think it is a really good idea to do so. My feelings will never be hurt, however, if you happen to miss a lecture. Even in the case of an emergency, you will always be responsible for the material presented in a class you may have missed - including changes to the homework and exam dates. The only way to hand in homework and take the weekly quiz is by attending recitation sections.
Homework: There will be weekly homework announced in class and posted on the website. Homework is the same among all three sections of this course. It always gets handed in to the TA at the beginning of the recitation sessions on Tuesdays. No late homework will be accepted. Both handwritten and typed homework is acceptable. Please treat your homework for this class the same way that you would treat an essay for a humanities class, in particular:
Title and date the homework at the top of the first page. Write your name clearly at the top of every page.
Put the problems in order, indicating appropriately what you may have skipped.
Staple your homework at the top left corner. No paperclips, creative corner folding/ripping, etc.
Write clearly. Messy homework may not be graded. This is best handled by writing a "good copy" to hand in after you have figured out exactly what to do.
Collaboration: I never recommend doing mathematics alone. Part of the reason I love math is that it can be such a social discipline if you let it. Please study together. Work together on the homework and other recommended problems. Teach someone something you understand - it's the best way to reinforce it. That being said, when it comes time to write up your homework, you must work alone. The expectation is that when you are working with other people, you are talking things out and perhaps writing stuff on a blackboard or scrap piece of paper, but you are not taking personal notes. When you go back home and write your homework up in good, your work should be in your own words and not copied.
Courseload:: In addition to homework and quizzes, I will be assigning reading from the textbook and recommended problems for you to think about. Mathematics is learned by consistently reinforcing the material. I will be operating under the assumption that you are reading the textbook at the pace suggested by the reading assignments, and working on the recommended problems throughout the term and not just the day before the exam.
Exams:: Exams for this course are the same for all three sections, and everyone takes them together. The tentative dates for our midterms and final are the following:
Midterm 1: Tuesday October 7th 2008, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Midterm 2: Tuesday November 4th 2008, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Final Exam: Tuesday December 16th 2008, 2:00pm (arranged by registrar) These dates are all still tentative. We will try to set things in stone as soon as possible.
