Jen Paulhus, Ph.D.

Calculus III

email: jpaulhus@mtholyoke.edu
Office Hours:
     Mondays 4:00-5:00 PM
     Tuesdays 10:30-11:30 AM
     Thursdays 9:30-10:30 AM
     Fridays 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
     or by appointment

Class Meeting: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 1:45-3:00 PM

Text: APEX Calculus 3, Version 4.0, Hartman
Material Covered: Chapters 10-14, parts of 9

Syllabus

Homework Assignments     Quiz Topics

Daily Topics

Class Date Section Topics Desmos Link
Jan. 28 10.1 (pgs. 559-562) coordinate planes, distance in space, standard equation of a sphere Day 1 Intro
Jan. 30 10.2, 10.3 (pgs. 574-582) vector, initial point, terminal point, magnitude, component form, vector algebra properties of vector operation, unit vector Basics of Vectors
Jan. 31 10.3 (pgs. 588-595) dot product and angles, orthogonal vectors, orthogonal projection
Feb. 4 10.4, 9.2 (pgs. 601-605, 511-512) cross product, right hand rule,
Feb. 6 Snow Day!
Feb. 7 11.1, 10.5 (pgs. 612-614, 631-635) vector-valued functions, parametric and symmetric equations of a line Vector Valued Functions
Feb. 11 10.5, 11.2 (pgs. 615-617, 639-642) skew lines, Lines and Planes
Feb. 13 10.6 (pg. 623-627) normal vectors, standard and general form for planes, parallel planes Level Curves
Feb. 14 12.1, 12.2 (pgs.683-688, 690-698) multivariable functions, level curve, open disk, boundary point, interior point, open, closed, bounded sets, limits, continuity More Level Curves and Limits
Feb. 18 12.3 (pgs. 700-707) partial derivative with respect to x and with respect to y Partial Derivatives
Feb. 20 Exam 1
Feb. 21 no class
Feb. 25 12.3(pgs. 708-710) more on partial derivatives, second partial derivatives, Clairaut's Theorem (Theorem 12.3.1) 2nd Partials
Feb. 27 12.7 (pgs.739-740, 745-746) tangent plane Tangent Plane
Feb. 28 12.5 (pgs. 721-725) multivariable chain rule
Mar. 4 12.6 (pgs. 729-737) directional derivatives, gradients Directional Derivatives
Mar. 6 12.7, 12.8 (pgs. 746-747, 749-751) more on gradient, relative and absolute max/min, critical point, saddle point Maximum and Minimums
Mar. 7 12.8 (pgs. 752-754) 2nd Derivative Test
Mar. 11 12.8 (pgs. 754-757) Extreme Value Theorem, absolute maximum, absolute minimum Optimization
Mar. 13 see Moodle for notes Lagrange multiplier, method of Lagrange multipliers Lagrange Multipliers
π Day 9.4 (pgs. 533-543) integration by parts recap, polar coordinates, polar functions
Mar. 25 a bit more Lagrange Multipliers, Riemann sums from Calc I Single Variable Example
Mar. 27 13.2 (pgs. 769-770) Riemann sums, double integrals Riemann Sums
Mar. 28 Exam 2
Apr. 1 13.1, 13.2 (pgs. 759-766) iterated integrals, Fubini's Theorem Iterated Integrals
Apr. 3 13.2 (pgs. 771-776) properties of double integrals, changing order of integration Double Integral Regions
Apr. 4 13.3 (pgs. 780-783) double integrals and polar coordinates 3d Integral Pictures

Homework Assignments

Homework assignments are due on Gradescope at 1:30 PM on the date listed below. See the syllabus for more information about submitting homework.

Show your work on the homework. Answers with no work will receive zero points.

Due date Problem Set
Jan. 31 Homework 1
Feb. 4 Homework 2
Feb. 7 Homework 3
Feb. 11 Homework 4
Feb. 14 Homework 5
Feb. 18 Homework 6
Feb. 25 Homework 7
Feb. 28 Homework 8
Mar. 4 Homework 9
Mar. 7 Homework 10
Mar. 11 Homework 11
Mar. 14 Homework 12
Mar. 25 Homework 13
Apr. 1 Homework 14

Quiz Topics

Quizzes will be posted on Gradescope at 10 AM on the day listed under "Posting Date". They are due by 10 PM on the day listed under "Due Date" (36 hours after they are posted). You will have 30 minutes from the time you first access the quiz to complete it.

Quiz Posting Date Due Date Section(s)
# 1 Feb. 3 Feb. 4 10.1 and 10.2 (testing your knowledge of definitions and basic properties)
# 2 Feb. 10 Feb. 11 9.2, 10.3-10.4
# 3 Feb. 17 Feb. 18 10.5, 11.1, 11.2
# 4 Mar. 3 Mar. 4 12.3, 12.7
# 5 Mar. 10 Mar. 11 12.5, 12.6