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Fall 2014 Tentative Syllabus (Sections 003-006)
Meeting Date Topics Reading
1 Wed.9/3 Conic Sections 10.5
2 Mon.9/8 Coordinate Systems in Two and Three dimensions 10.3, 12.1; first parts of 15.8 and 15.9
3 Wed.9/10 Vectors 12.2
4 Mon.9/15 The Dot Product 12.3
5 Wed.9/17 The Cross Product 12.4
6 Mon.9/22 Equations of Lines and Planes 12.5
7 Wed.9/24 Cylinders and Quadric Surfaces 12.6
8 Mon.9/29 Review
9 Wed.10/1 1st Midterm
10 Mon.10/6 Vector Functions and Space Curves 13.1
11 Wed.10/8 Derivatives and Integrals of Vector Functions 13.2
12 Mon.10/13 Arc Length and Curvature 13.3
13 Wed.10/15 Motion in Space: Velocity and Acceleration 13.4
14 Mon.10/20 Functions of Several Variables, Limits, Continuity 14.1, 14.2
15 Wed.10/22 Partial Derivatives 14.3
16 Mon.10/27 Review
17 Wed.10/29 2nd Midterm
Mon.11/3 Academic Holiday
18 Wed.11/5 Tangent Planes and Linear Approximations 14.4
19 Mon.11/10 The Chain Rule 14.5
20 Wed.11/12 Directional Derivatives and the Gradient Vector 14.6
21 Mon.11/17 Directional Derivatives and the Gradient Vector 14.6
22 Wed.11/19 Maximum and Minimum Values 14.7
23 Mon.11/24 Maximum and Minimum Values 14.7
Wed.11/26 Thanksgiving
24 Mon.12/1 Lagrange Multipliers 14.8
25 Wed.12/3 Complex Numbers Appendix H
26 Mon.12/8 Review
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