MAT 205: Calculus III

MAT 205
Multivariate and Vector Calculus

Fall 2000
Professor Sutherland

Course Description (updated Saturday, 23 September 2000)
Textbook, grading policy, email addresses, office hours, and phone numbers, as well as other administrivia.
Estimated schedule of lectures and homework assignments. (updated Sunday, 10 December 2000 at 05:34 PM EST)
The first exam was on Monday, October 2 in class. There is a list of topics covered by the exam. For your studying pleasure, a copy of the first exam is here, in PDF format.
The second exam was on Monday, November 13 in class. In case you forgot what it covered, here is list of topics you should have known before taking it. You can review a copy of the second exam, if you like.
The final exam will be on Monday, December 18 at 5pm in room P-131 of the math building.
- I will be holding a review session on Saturday, Dec. 16 at 1pm in room P-131 of the math building. Come armed with plenty of questions. Wednesday's class (both lecture and recitation) will do some amount of reviewing, as well.
- As promised, there is a list of topics covered by the final.
- It seems I won't be providing a sample final. You can look at the final from last spring (pdf format), although mine will probably differ somewhat in both the format and the selection of topics.
- You will be allowed to bring a calculator and a single sheet of notes to the final. This sheet of notes must be on regular 8.5 by 11 inch paper (or smaller), and handwritten (no printouts or photocopies). You must turn your page of notes in with your final, so make a copy if you want to keep it.

Since this class is concerned with functions best thought of in three dimensions, it is often helpful to be able to display these things. Most graphing calculators are seriously limited in these areas. If you come to class once in a while, you might notice that I use a program called Maple for this purpose. Maple is a general purpose symbolic mathematics system, which can do quite a lot more, including differentiation, integration, etc. It is installed on all of the SINC site computers at Stony Brook, and you can use it yourself. I am not planning to require you to use it, however. You might find my notes for MAT 331 helpful, or you might like to look at some of the following:

The University of Pennsylvania uses Maple heavily throughout their calculus sequence. Their lab manual for math 240 has a number of things which are quite relevant (and some much less so).
Waterloo Maple has a good tutorial on using maple.
A collection of maple resources (including a tutorial or two) at Indiana University
Some stock answers to maple questions at MIT.
The Maple lab manual from Worcester Polytechnical Institute.

If you find some better material on the web, let me know about it.

More stuff will arrive here when there is more to put here. Until then, this page will remain the same, unless it changes. (I last put something here on Friday, 15 February 2002 at 05:53 PM EST, or thereabouts. )