Math 2210 - Calculus III

• October 6th Today we finished our discussion of directional derivatives and gradient vectors. Assignment 5 was due. Assignment 6 will be out on Wednesday, and due the Wednesday after break. Also, the first exam is graded and the exam grades are posted on WebCT. The exams will be handed back in class on Wednesday. Finally, remember that we will not be having class on Friday.


• October 3rd Today we talked about directional derivatives and gradients. Also, the first exam will be graded and returned by Wednesday, October 8th.


• October 1st Today we finished our discussion about differentiability and tangent planes. We're again a little bit behind schedule, so if we don't catch up soon we may have to revise our schedule for the rest of the semester again.


• September 29th Today we finished our discussion about continuity, and discussed some basic concepts and definitions from metric topology. Finally, we went over the beginnings of the theory of differentiability for multivariable functions. Also, please note that grades for the third assignment are now online, and the third assignment will be returned in class next time. Also, the first exam should be graded and returned before fall break. Finally, I'm conducting midterm evaluations, so please fill out a midterm evaluation. The link for the website is at the top of this page.


• September 24th Today we discussed section 12.3 on limits and continuity, but only got through limits, and so we'll cover continuity on Monday. Also, there will be a review session tomorrow in JWB 333 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM. Our first exam will be on Friday. Also, a while ago somebody asked me if I could make copies of the homework problems, because he's using an old book. Sorry I forgot about that until today, but when I tried to make copies the quality wasn't good at all, so I just figured I'd type up the assignments. Note that the typed up assignments are set up so that, if you're so inclined, you could print them out and just write the solutions there. This is what I'll be doing for all future solution sets. Also please note that the second homework assignments has been graded, and the grades have been recorded, and the assignment was handed back in class today. I've also posted the solutions to the third homework assignment. Finally, I was asked about practice exams, and so I've posted the first exams covering chapter 11 from the previous two times I taught this class, along with solutions. These are posted below. Whew! That's a bunch of announcements.


• September 22nd Assignment 3 was due today, so if you did not hand that in during class please get it to me ASAP. The grader had not returned the assignment to me by class time, but I received it in the afternoon, and so your grades on the second assignment are now posted on WebCT. I'll hand back assignment 2 on Wednesday.


• September 19th Today we finished our discussion of section 11.9, and we moved into chapter 12, starting with section 12.1 and the concept of multivariable functions.


• September 17th Today we discussed section 11.9, and we will finish our discussion first thing on Friday. Also, please note that my office hours have been changed (hopefully for the last time) and these changes are now reflected on this webpage and in the updated syllabus. Also, the schedule has changed, and this is reflected in the updated syllabus, as well as in the schedule that has just recently been added to the webpage. Finally, an email was sent out informing students about my policy of having notes for exams. You will be allowed one standard size page, front and back, of notes for our first exam on September 26th.


• September 15th Today we finished section 11.8. Class last Friday we had Kelly MacArthur as a substitute. Thanks Kelly! Also, I announced assignments 3 and 4, which are posted below. Finally, please note that the date of our first quiz has been changed from Wednesday, September 17th to next Friday, September 26th.


• September 8th Today we finished section 11.4 on cross products, and began section 11.5 on vector-valued functions. I also gave a reminder in class today that homework 2 is due this Friday, not this Wednesday, and that I will not be teaching class on Friday, but there will be a substitute.


• September 5th Today we finished section 11.3, concerning ourselves mainly with planes, and their relation to the dot product. Next time we will finish up the section 11.4 notes on the cross product, and hopefully begin section 11.5. Also, today the first homework assignment was due, and the second homework assignment's due date was postponed.


• September 3rd Today we finished section 11.2, and began section 11.3 on the dot product. The notes with solutions for section 11.3 are below, along with the notes for section 11.4. Also, the problems for the second assignment are enumerated below.


• August 29th Sorry to be so late in updating the webpage. Today, we finished talking about section 11.1, and got about half way through section 11.2. Because we did not finish section 11.2, our first homework assignment's due date is postponed until Friday, September 5th.


• August 27th Today we had our first lecture on material from the course, and we covered most of section 11.1. On Friday we will be finishing this section, and also covering section 11.2, for which the lecture notes are posted below. The solutions to the example problems from the lecture notes are also posted below. Please note that the first assignment is now posted, and it is due on Wednesday, September 3rd. Also please note that if you want to use the lecture notes to follow along during lecture you will be from here on our expected to print them out yourself from this webpage and bring them to class. I will hopefully always from here on out have the lecture notes for a given lecture posted by the time of the lecture before it. So, for example, I hope to have the lecture notes for the September 3rd lecture prepared and posted by this Friday.


• August 25th Today was our first class period. It was an introductory lecture where we disucssed administrative aspects of the class and I gave an overview of the subject matter. Covering the material begins on Wednesday. Also, please note that my office hours have changed from those announced on Monday. They are now as posted on the webpage, and the syllabus posted on the webpage reflects this change.

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