The course is over! Final grades have been submitted to MySlice. Thanks to everyone for a great semester, and enjoy your break.
Basic Info
- Instructor
- Prof. Graham Leuschke
email:gjleusch@math.syr.edu
AIM:leuschkeg
Yahoo!:graham_leuschke
Google:leuschke@gmail
or see below! - Time & Place
- TR 12:30—1:50, Carnegie 208
- Recitation
- F 2:15—3:35, Carnegie 311, Melissa Voldan
- Office Hours
- MW 2—4, TF 9:30—11; by appointment; and any time my door is open (206C Carnegie)
- Important documents
- syllabus for all sections Δ
supplement to the syllabus for my section Δ - Homework
- WebAssign
Final Exam
The final exam will be Wednesday, December 15, 8–10am, in the new Life Sciences building, room 1. Here is a review sheet for Chapter 16 Δ; the answers are here Δ
Announcement: calculators will NOT BE ALLOWED on the final exam.
Exam III
The third exam will be in recitation on Friday, December 4. It will cover Chapter 15. Here is a review sheet Δ. The answers are here Δ.
Exam II
The second exam will be in recitation on Friday, November 6. It will cover Chapter 14 and the first two sections of Chapter 15. Here is a review sheet Δ. The answers are here Δ.
Exam I
The first exam was in recitation on Friday, October 2. It covered all of chapters 12 and 13. Here is a review sheet Δ. Here are the answers Δ (updated after class on Thursday).
The exams were quite good. The mean was about 83.5, and the median 86.5.
Calculus Links
(reverse-chronological, blog-style)
- interactive directional derivatives
- gradients, directional derivatives, and the tangent plane
- interactive partial derivatives
- topo maps of the Syracuse area including East Syracuse, from which I made the topo map of campus
- lots of animations of parametrized curves, some with tangent, normal, and binormal vectors or velocity/acceleration vectors.
- a couple of non-quadric surfaces: monkey saddle and a spiky thing (fixed links)
- here are a bunch of pictures of quadric surfaces
- an interactive gallery of all the quadric surfaces
- hyperboloids of one sheet: animated gif, still image (local), with horizontal traces, with vertical traces, interactive
- hyperboloid of two sheets: animated gif, with horizontal traces, with vertical traces (fixed link)
- saddle (aka hyperbolic paraboloid): animated gif, still image (local) and horizontal traces one and two
- applet: cross products in 3-space
- applet: dot products and projections
- applet: graphing vector calculator
- working with vectors
