Announcement: We’re done here!

Thanks to everybody for a great semester, and have a delightful summer.

Here are some extra office hours for the week of May 2:
T 10:30—12
W 3:30—5
R 2:30—4\\

Announcement: Office Hours

Here are some extra office hours for the week of May 2: T 10:30—12 W 3:30—5 R 2:30—4 F cancelled

• slides from class on Friday 4/22 of the volume of a weird solid Δ

• Rate this professor!

No current homework. Keep in mind that you should be doing the problems in the syllabus. Here’s a PDF of the slides from class on Friday 4/22 of the volume of a weird solid Δ. (There’s a blank page at the beginning, I’m not sure why.)

• Review for Exam III Δ

No current homework. Keep in mind that you should be doing the problems in the syllabus. Here’s a PDF of the slides I showed in class of the volume of a weird solid Δ. (There’s a blank page at the beginning, I’m not sure why.)

No current homework. Keep in mind that you should be doing the problems in the syllabus. Here’s a PDF of the slides I showed in class of the volume of a weird solid Δ

No current homework. Keep in mind that you should be doing the problems in the syllabus.

• some worked examples of triple integrals
• more worked examples

• section 16.3, #2–6 even and 13–15
• section 16.4, #5–9

Announcement: lots o’ links

I added a bunch more links below (12 April).

Due Friday 15 April:

• section 16.1, #23
• section 16.2, # 2, 4, 6, 13–16
• section 16.3 2–6 even and 13–15

• what tangent planes have to do with traces
• fantastic applet showing tangent planes on a surface (and you can change the surfance, and move them around!)
• pretty good 3-d graphing calculator (you can move things around — they may look a little strange due to the small domain.)
• directional derivatives animation (.mov file)
• illustration of constrained optimization (.mov file)
• Riemann sums converging to volume (.mov file)
• min/max animations
• the tangent parallelograms for computing surface area
• another one you can move around
• a paraboloid to play with

Announcement: Final Exam

The final exam will be Monday, May 9 at 10:15 AM in Hall of Languages, room 207. There should be no conflicts; please check the final exam timetable to be sure.

Due Friday 8 April:

• section 15.9, #2, 10

• section 15.8, #20, 22

• Review for Exam II Δ

• section 15.8, #1, 4, 16

Reminder

Exam II will be in recitation on Tuesday 29 March. Here’s the review sheet I handed out in class Δ

Due Monday 28 March:

• go see the talk on Power Towers, Wed, March 23rd at 5:30 PM, in 313 Carnegie (there’ll be snacks!).

Due M Onday? 28 March:

• section 15.5, #4, 13, 25
• section 15.6, #4, 5, 8, 9

• section 15.4 #8, 9, 12

Due Friday 11 March:

• section 15.2, #4, 25
• section 15.3 #3, 10, 17

• section 14.6, #5, 6, 24

• section 15.1, #5, 14, 18, 41

• (local) animation of level curves on a saddle

Due Friday 4 March:

• section 14.6, # 5, 6, 24
• problems on spherical and cylindrical coordinates Δ — hand in the odd-numbered problems; you’ll be expected to re-do them until you get them all correct.

• Why not try an evil limit?

Nothing due on Friday 25 February. Why not try an evil limit?

Current Homework

Nothing due on Friday 25 February.

Other Useful Links (Local)

• Syracuse Math Department

• static images of the surfaces I put on the projector on 2/23 : saddle, 1-sheet hyperboloid, spiky thing, and monkey saddle (see your text for others)
• a huge number of animated surfaces

• animations of a hyperboloid of one sheet, a hyperboloid of two sheets, and a hyperbolic paraboloid (saddle)
• static images of the surfaces I put on the projector on 2/23 : saddle, 1-sheet hyperboloid, spiky thing, and monkey saddle? (see your text for others)

• velocity and acceleration vectors (animated .gif)

• Review for Exam I Δ

• a free program for graphing 2d and 3d functions

http://adept.maplesoft.com/categories/mathematics/vector_calculus/html/images/Diff_Geom_Curves41.gif

The first exam is this Tuesday, 22 February, in recitation.

• email: gjleusch at syr dot edu or graham at leuschke dot org
• IM: leuschkeg on AIM, or graham_leuschke on Yahoo!.

• section 14.4, numbers 10 and 18

Reminder!

The first exam is Tuesday, 22 February, in recitation.

• the tangent, normal, and binormal to a curve

http://adept.maplesoft.com/categories/mathematics/vector_calculus/html/images/Diff_Geom_Curves41.gif

• section 14.3, numbers 7, 12 (see #11 for a hint), and 28 (write out a grammatically correct sentence or two).

Current Homework

I’ll be out of town the week of 7–11 February, and there will be no homework due on 11 Feb. I highly recommend you work through the problems on the syllabus, though. In particular, you should be sure you can do numbers 6 & 9 (finding T(t) and N(t) only) from section 13.5.

• Paul Dawkins’ notes on How to Study Math, including Studying For Exams, Taking Exams, and Learning From Your Errors.

• cross products of vectors in 3-space (occasionally crashes my browser, but worth it)

(:*toc :)

Basic Info

• Instructor: Graham Leuschke
  Room: Carnegie 306
  Times: MWF 10:35 - 11:30
• Graham’s office hours:
  MW 9:30–10:30 and R 1:00–2:00
  in Carnegie 305
• Recitation instructor: Bob Miller
  T 9:30 - 10:50
• syllabus for Tuesday-recitation sections Δ
• contact information Δ.
• calc clinic hours Δ
• textbook web site

Handouts

• polar graphs you should know
• problems on spherical and cylindrical coordinates Δ

Other Useful Links (Local)

• Syracuse Math Department

Other Useful Links (Calculus)

• graphing polar equations
• Famous Curves and animated demonstrations (ever get Freeth’s Nephroid in your Conchoid of de Sluze?)
• working with vectors
• cylindrical coordinates
• spherical coordinates

Other Useful Links (Misc.)

• Mathematician of the Day
• the most common errors in undergraduate math (I don’t agree with all of this, but it’s interesting.)