Math 202, Spring 2008: Schedule

Date Topics Section Homework Due date Comments
Week 1
Jan 28 Intro 1.1 Feb 4
Jan 30 Vectors 1.1 1.1:6, 8, 9, 10b, 26, 28 Hw1 hints
Feb 1 Inner product 1.2 1.2:8,13,17,18,26.
Week 2
Feb 4 Cross Product 1.3 1.2:19,25. 1.3:3,4,5,6,12 Feb 8 (date change) Lecture notes
Feb 6 1.3:15bc, 26, 27, 32 Hw2 hints
Feb 8 Level sets and graphs 2.1 The above are due Feb 8
Week 3
Feb 11 Limits and Continuity 2.2 2.1: 2,4,6,13 Feb 15 Lecture notes
Feb 13 2.2 2.2: 1,3,20,27b Hw3 hints
Feb 15 Partial derivatives 2.3 2.2:8ac, 9ab, 11bc
Week 4
Feb 18 Matrix of partial derivatives 2.3 2.3: 2,3,5,9 Feb 22 Lecture notes
Feb 20 Differentiability 2.3 2.3: 7ac, 12a, 13a, 16 Hw4 hints
Feb 22 Paths 2.4
Week 5
Feb 25 Chain rule 2.5 2.4: 2, 4, 13, 19 dont turn in Lecture notes
Gradients 2.6 2.5:3, 5ab, 10, 13, 20 Hw5 hints
Feb 29 Midterm I
Week 6
March 3 Directional derivatives 2.6 p.172: 15, 24b; p.176: 22, 31, 40 March 7 Lecture notes
March 5 The Hessian 3.1 3.1: 3, 17, 19, 22, 24* (star means optional) Hw 6 hints
March 7 Quadratic approximation 3.2
Week 7
March 10 Maxima and minima 3.3 Homework 7 March 14 Lecture notes
March 12 Optimization 3.3-3.4 Hw 7 hints
March 14 Lagrange multipliers 3.4
Week 8
March 17 Spring Break
Week 9
March 24 Lagrange method: 3D 3.4 Homework 8 March 28 Lecture notes
March 26 Integrals Chap 5 Hw 8 hints
March 28 Integrals Chap 5
Week 10
March 31 Change of variable 6.1-6.2 Homework 9 April 2 (Wednesday) Lecture notes
April 2 Exam review Hw 9 hints
April 4 Midterm II
Week 11
April 7 Change of var. in R^3 6.2 Homework 10 April 11 Lecture notes
April 9 Line integrals 7.2
April 11 Gradient vector fields 7.2
Week 12
April 14 Surfaces 7.3 Homework 11 April 18 Lecture notes
April 16 Area element 7.4 Hw 11 hints
April 18 7.6
Week 13
April 21 Green's Theorem 8.1 Homework 12 April 25 Lecture notes
April 23 Stokes' Theorem 8.2 Hw 12 hints
April 25 Gauss' Theorem
Week 14
April 28 Review: Stokes, Gauss 8.3 Hw: prepare questions from practice problems/exams. May 2
April 30 Review Chap. 8 8.4 (You will find them under the Exams section.)
May 2 Last lecture (I was obviously confused)