Math 14, Winter 2004

Calculus of Vector-valued Functions, Honors

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Syllabus

The following is a tentative syllabus for the course. This page will be updated irregularly. On the other hand, the weekly syllabus contained in the Homework Assignments page will always be accurate.


Lectures Sections in the Textbook Brief Description
Day 1:  Monday, Jan 5 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 The Inner Product, Length, and Distance; Matrices, Determinants, and the Cross Product (brief recollection); Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates
Day 2:  Wednesday, Jan 7 1.5, 2.2 n-dimensional Euclidean Space; Limits and Continuity (briefly);
Day 3:  Friday, Jan 9 2.3, 3.1 Differentiation; Iterated Partial Derivatives
Saturday, Jan 10   Classes shifted to the X-hour.
Day 4:  Monday, Jan 12 3.1, 3.2 Iterated Partial Derivatives (cont); Taylor's Theorem
Day 5:  Tuesday, Jan 13
X-hour instead of Jan 10
3.3 Extrema of Real-Valued Functions
Day 6:  Wednesday, Jan 14 3.5 The Implicit Function Theorem
Day 7:  Friday, Jan 16 4.1, 4.3 Acceleration and Newton's Second Law; Vector Fields
Friday, Jan 16   Last day to add/drop
Monday, Jan 19   Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Classes moved to the X-hour.
Day 8:  Tuesday, Jan 20
X-hour instead of Jan 19
4.4 Divergence and Curl
Day 9:  Wednesday, Jan 21 5.1 The Double Integral
Day 10:  Friday, Jan 23 5.2 The Double Integral over a Rectangle
Day 11:  Monday, Jan 26 5.3, 5.4 The Double Integral over More General Regions; Changing the Order of Integration
Monday, Jan 26 evening   First Midterm 4PM - 6PM
Day 12:  Wednesday, Jan 28 5.5 The Triple Integral
Day 13:  Friday, Jan 30 6.1 The Geometry of Maps from R2 to R2
Day 14:  Monday, Feb 2 6.2 The Change of Variables Theorem
Day 15:  Wednesday, Feb 4 6.3 Applications
Day 16:  Friday, Feb 6 6.4, 7.1 Improper Integrals; The Path Integral
Day 17:  Monday, Feb 9 7.2 Line Integrals
Day 18:  Wednesday, Feb 11 7.3 Parametrized Surfaces
Friday, Feb 13   Winter Carnival holiday. Classes moved to the X-hour.
Day 19:  Monday, Feb 16 7.4 Area of a Surface
Day 20:  Tuesday, Feb 17
X-hour instead of Feb 13
7.5 Integrals of Scalar Functions over Surfaces
Day 21:  Wednesday, Feb 18 7.6 Surface Integrals of Vector Fields
Wednesday, Feb 18 evening   Second Midterm 4PM - 6PM
Day 22:  Friday, Feb 20 7.7 Applications to Differential Geometry, Physics, and Forms of Life
Day 23:  Monday, Feb 23 8.1 Green's Theorem
Tuesday, Feb 24   Last day to drop
Day 24:  Wednesday, Feb 25 8.2 Stokes' Theorem
Day 25:  Friday, Feb 27 8.3 Conservative Fields
Day 26:  Monday, Mar 1 8.4 Gauss' Theorem
Day 27:  Wednesday, Mar 3 8.5 Some Differential Equations of Mechanics and Technology
Day 28:  Friday, Mar 5 8.6 Differential Forms
Day 29:  Monday, Mar 8 -- Review etc.