MATH 241: CALCULUS III (An Introduction to Multivariable Calculus)

Fall 2008

Instructor: Dionisios Margetis

LARGE LECTURES: MWF, 2:00pm -- 2:50pm; Room: ARM 0126

Instructor's office hours: Mon & Wed, 3:00pm -- 4:00pm (after lecture); or by appointment.
Regular office hours will start on Mon Sept. 8

Teaching Assistants (TAs)/Section Leaders & Sections:
(All sections are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)
  • Prashant Athavale (patha@math.umd.edu): Secs. 0211 (8am, MTH0307) & 0221 (9am, MTH0307)
  • Paul Koprowski (pkoprows@math.umd.edu): Sec. 0232 (10am, MTH1313)
  • Ioannis Markou (gmarkou@math.umd.edu): Secs. 0212 (8am, MTH0101) & 0222 (9am, MTH0304)
  • Linbao Zhang (linbaozhang@hotmail.com): Secs. 0231 (10am, MTH0307) & 0241 (11am, MTH0307)
    For more information on TAs see below.

    • The discussion sections will start regularly on Tuesday, September 2.

    FINAL EXAM: Monday, Dec. 15, 1:30pm-3:30pm. Room TBA in class.

    Textbook for main lectures:

    Calculus ; authors: R. Ellis & D. Gulick; 6th Edition, Thomson Publishing, 2003.

    Short Syllabus and Detailed Course Policies (PDF)

    For detailed syllabus see the Mathematics Department webpage

    Teaching Assistant (TA) Information

    RECOMMENDED HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:

  • Homework Assignment #1, Fri Sept. 5:
    (Material covered in 09/03/08 -- 09/10/08)
    Sec. 11.1: Probs. 4, 7, 9, 10, 14, 21
    Sec. 11.2: Probs. 4, 9, 10, 13, 16, 19, 23, 27
    Sec. 11.3: Probs. 2, 5, 7, 10, 11, 15, 19, 28, 33
    Sec. 11.4: Probs. 2, 5, 10, 11, 13
    Sec. 11.5:Probs. 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 18

    EXAMS:

  • LECTURES:

  • Lecture 1, Wed. Sept. 3: Sec. 11.1 from text: Cartesian coordinate system.
    Sec. 11.2: Definition of vector.
  • Lecture 2, Fri. Sept. 5: Sec. 11.2: Vector operations: sum, scalar multiple; geometric interpretation.
    Sec. 11.3 (start): Intro. to dot product.
  • Lecture 3, Mon. Sept. 8: Sec. 11.3 (cont.): Projection of vectors
    Sec. 11.4: Cross product of vectors.
  • Lecture 4, Wed. Sept. 10: Sec. 11.5: Lines in space.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • (Posted Fri. Sept. 5) Quizzes in all sections will be given on the following dates:

    Thu 09/11, Thu 09/25, Tue 10/14, Thu 10/23, Thu 11/6, Tue 11/18, Thu 12/4

  • (Posted Mon. Sept. 1) For students who have the 5th Ed. of the Calculus text:
    You may use it, but check that assigned homeworks are the same as in 6th (current) edition.
    A copy of recommended homeworks from the 6th Ed. will be provided above if necessary.

    MATLAB: AN INTRODUCTION:

    Here is a short introduction to MATLAB that can be downloaded in PDF format (from Prof. P. Wolfe).

    Go here to download the entire set of m-files into the directory that you use as your home directory
    for your MATLAB projects.

    FINAL EXAM ROOM ASSIGNMENT: TBA