Fall 2008 Math 254H Information
Contact Information: Lawrence Roberts
A345 Wells Hall
{instructor's first name} {at} math {dot} msu {dot} edu
Office Hours:
M 1:30 - 2:30 pm
W 2:00 - 3:00 pm
F 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
If you cannot make these times, please send me an email and we can make an appointment.
The syllabus can be found at Math 254H: Syllabus (in pdf)
Monday, August 25 Single Variable Calculus Review Problems (for Wednesday, Aug. 27)
Wednesday, August 27 For Friday read section 12.1 Three-dimensional Coordinate Systems and look at section 12.6
Friday, August 29 Homework for next Wednesday . Also read section 12.2 Vectors .
Wednesday, September 3 Homework for Friday, Sept 5. Also begin reading section 12.3.
Friday, September 5 Homework for Monday, Sept 8. See section 13.1 as a reference.
Monday, September 8 Homework for Wednesday, Sept 10. See section 12.3 as a reference.
Wednesday, September 10 Homework for Friday Sept. 12. See section 12.4 as a reference, pg 875 hassome determinant examples. We will briefly look at section 12.5 before moving on to section 13.3
Friday, September 12 Homework for Monday Sept. 15. See section 12.5, 13.3 as references. There are examplesin these sections for much of the homework. There are also additional problems at the end of the sections, and answers in the back of the book for the odd numbered problems.
Monday, September 15 Review problems for Wednesday Sept. 17.
Monday, September 22 Homework for Wednesday, Sept 24.
Wednesday, September 24 Homework for Friday, Sept 26.
Friday, September 26 Homework for Monday, Sept 29.
Monday, September 29 Homework for Wednesday, October 1.
Wednesday, October 1 Homework for Friday, October 3.
Friday, October 3 Homework for Monday, October 6.
Monday, October 6 Homework for Wednesday, October 8.
Wednesday, October 8 Homework for Friday, October 10.
Friday, October 10 Homework and Review for Monday, October 13.
Monday, October 13 More places to look for review: At the end of the chapter there aresome sections of review problems. The answers to the odd numbered problems are in the back of thebook. I would pay special attention to those from sections 14.2 (limits), 14.4 (chain rule), 14.5 (directionalderivatives), 14.6 (tangent planes), and the sections on maxima/minima, saddle points and Lagrangian multipliers: 14.7, and 14.8.
Friday, October 17 Homework for Wednesday, October 22.
Wednesday, October 22 Homework for Friday, October 24.
Friday, October 24 Homework for Monday, October 27.
Monday, October 27 Homework for Wednesday, October 29.
Wednesday, October 29 Homework for Friday: Find the volume enclosed by the surfacedescribed in spherical coordinates as rho^2 = cos(2 phi).
Friday, October 31 Homework for Monday.
Monday, November 3 Homework for Wednesday.
Wednesday, November 5 Homework for Friday.
I won't be there friday, but someone will arrive in my place. For next Monday, there is a review sheer Review for Mid-term
Monday, November 11 More review suggestions: 1) Make sure you know what a conservative vector field is, how to tell whether a vector fieldis conservative, and how to find a potential function, (exact differentials, etc),
2) Make sure you know how to compute line integrals, double integrals,triple integrals,
3) how to change the order of integration,
4) how to use cylindrical and spherical coordinates to compute integrals,
5) how to change variables in double integrals.
Look at pg 1138, 1 - 16, 27 - 40, 43 - 49, and pg 1223 1 - 10, 29 - 34
Friday, November 14 Homework for Monday.
Monday, November 17 Homework for Wednesday (but we'll discuss it Friday). After Wednesday's class you shouldgo back through section 16.6 and make sure you understand parameterizations of surfaces Try doing problems 7, 13, 17, 24 in 16.6.
Friday, November 21 Homework for Monday.
Monday, November 24 Homework for Monday, December 1.
Monday, December 1 Homework/Review for Wednesday, December 3.