MATH253-102 :       Multivariable Calculus   (1st term 2019/2020)


Lecture   I: Monday 11am--12noon, BUCH-A201.

Lecture   II: Wednesday 11am--12noon, BUCH-A201.

Lecture   III: Friday 11am--12noon, BUCH-A201.

Office Hours: Every Monday, Wednesday, 3:30pm-5:30pm, LSK 303B.

TA: TBA

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Sept.4: coordinates systems, planes, lines, distances, spheres, vectors (introduction)

Sept. 6: dot-product. Angle and projection. Examples.

Sept. 9: cross product and its properties. Two application examples:area, normal vector to a plane.

Sept. 11: Equations of lines and planes.

Sept. 13: Distance between a point and a plane; distance between two parallel planes; distance between a point and a line. Start on Quadric surfaces. Cylinders.

Sept. 16: Classification of Quadric surfaces. Slicing and contours. Definition of functions of two variables.

Sept. 18: Contours. 11 examples. limits and continuity of functions of two variables.

Sept. 20: Limits, continuity, partial derivatives. Examples. Notes on Sept. 20

Sept. 23: Computations of 1st and 2nd order derivatives. Implicit function derivatives.

Sept 25: Midterm I

Sept 27: Examples of computing higher order derivatives (explicit and implicit). Applications to three typical partial differential equations. special solutions. Start on linear approximations.

Sept. 30: Tangent lines, tangent planes. Examples. Tangent plane approximations. Examples.

Oct. 2: Total differentials. Chain Rule.

Oct. 4: Implicit Function Differentiations. Directional derivatives.

Oct. 7: Direction derivatives, maximum rate of change, minimum, zero rate of change. Application of steepest descent.

Oct. 9: Gradient, directional derivative for functions fo three variables. Surfaces given by implicit functions. Applications to tangenet plane.

Oct. 11: critical points. computations of critical points. second order derivative test.

Oct. 16: Midterm II

Oct. 18: classification of critical points. Global max/Global min.

Oct. 21: Absolute Max/Min. Examples. Method of Lagrange Multipliers.

Oct. 23: More examples of Absolute Max/Min., and Method of Lagrange Multipliers.

Oct. 25: Two examples of Method of Multiplies. Integrals.

Oct. 28: Double Integrals. Fubini Theorem.

Oct. 30: Type I Domain. Type II Domain.

Nov. 1: Type I and Type II double integrals. Exchange of the order of integrations.

Nov. 4: Exchange order of integrations. Introduction to polar coordinates. Double integrals in polar coordinates.

Nov. 6: Double integrals in polar coordinates. Examples of changing to polar coordinates.

Nov. 8: Review for Midterm 3. Applications of Double Integrals.

Nov. 13: Midterm III

Nov. 15: Center of Mass.

Nov. 18: Surface Area.

Nov. 20: Triple integrals. Type 1,2,3 domains. Exchange order of integrations.

Nov. 22: Exchange order of triple integrals in Cartesian coordinates.

Nov. 25: Triple integrals in cylinderical coordinates. Applications of Tripe integrals.

Nov. 27: Triple integrals in spherical coordinates.

Nov. 29: Triple integrals in cylinderical and spherical coordinates.


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Webwork 1 has been posted on Canvas.

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Coverage of Midterm 1: dot-product and cross-product of vectors; angle between two lines; angle between a line and a plane; intersection of lines and planes; distance between two planes; distances between a point and a line; contour of quadric surfaces

New office Hours on September 27: 3-6pm

Office Hours in the week of September 30-Oct. 4: Oct. 2, 2-3pm, Oct. 3, 10-4pm, Oct. 4 2-3pm.

Office hours on Oct. 14: 1-3pm

Office hours in the exam period: Dec. 2, 3, Dec. 12, 13, 16, 17,


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