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Fall 2014 Tentative Syllabus (Sections 009-012)
Meeting Date Topics Reading
1 Tue.9/2 Conic Sections 10.5
2 Thu.9/4 Coordinate Systems in Two and Three dimensions 10.3, 12.1; first parts of 15.8, 15.9
3 Tue.9/9 Vectors 12.2
4 Thu.9/11 The Dot Product 12.3
5 Tue.9/16 The Cross Product 12.4
6 Thu.9/18 Equations of Lines and Planes 12.5
7 Tue.9/23 Cylinders and Quadric Surfaces 12.6
8 Thu.9/25 Review
9 Tue.9/30 1st Midterm
10 Thu.10/2 Vector Functions and Space Curves 13.1
11 Tue.10/7 Derivatives and Integrals of Vector Functions 13.2
12 Thu.10/9 Arc Length and Curvature 13.3
13 Tue.10/14 Motion in Space: Velocity and Acceleration 13.4
14 Thu.10/16 Functions of Several Variables, Limits, Continuity 14.1, 14.2
15 Tue.10/21 Partial Derivatives 14.3
16 Thu.10/23 Tangent Planes and Linear Approximations 14.4
17 Tue.10/28 Review
18 Thu.10/30 2nd Midterm
Tue.11/4 Election Day: University Holiday
19 Thu.11/6 The Chain Rule 14.5
20 Tue.11/11 Directional Derivatives and the Gradient Vector 14.6
21 Thu.11/13 Directional Derivatives and the Gradient Vector 14.6
22 Tue.11/18 Maximum and Minimum Values 14.7
23 Thu.11/20 Maximum and Minimum Values 14.7
24 Tue.11/25 Lagrangian Multipliers
Thu.11/27 Thanksgiving
25 Tue.12/2 Complex Numbers Appendix H
26 Thu.12/4 Review
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