Math 23B
Multivariable Calculus
Fall 2016

Lectures: TTh 8:00 - 9:35am; Classroom Unit 1

Text: Vector Calculus Marsden & Tromba, 6th edition

Instructor: Viktor Ginzburg
email:  ginzburg(at)ucsc.edu
Office: McHenry 4124
Office Hours: Tu 10-11:30am or by appointment

Sections are mandatory. Teaching assistants and sections:

Sections begin on Wednesday 09/28. Teaching assistants will take attendance in sections.

TA's Office Hours and Email:

Enrollment questions and permission codes: If you have enrolment questions and/or to obtain a permission code please contact mathadvising(at)ucsc.edu. You can also use Mathematics student enrollment request form. The instructor does not give permission codes.

Students with disabilities: PBSci Undergraduate Affairs offers testing accommodations for students with learning or physical disabilities. If you qualify for classroom accommodations because of a disability, please submit your Accommodation Authorization Letter from the Disability Resource Center (DRC) to me as soon as possible, preferably within the first two weeks of the quarter. To receive accommodations, contact PBSci Testing testing.pbsci@ucsc.edu two weeks prior to the exam. Students who do not have authorized accommodations will be referred to the campus Disability Resource Center. You may contact DRC by phone at 459-2089 or by email at drc(at)ucsc.edu for more information.

Tutoring: Learning Support Services offers course-specific tutoring. Students meet in small groups (up to 4 people) led by a tutor; the session are an hour long and there are two sessions every week. Students are eligible for up to 2 hour of tutoring per week per course, and may sign-up for tutoring at https://eop.sa.ucsc.edu/OTSS/tutorsignup/ beginning Friday, September 30th at 5:00PM. Our tutor this Fall is Joyce (Szu-Yu) Huang. Sections will meet on Mo 9:20-10:20am, Tu 11:40-12:40am, We 1:30-2:20pm and Th 3:50-4:50pm, starting the week of 10/03 and the locations will be listed on the OTSS sign up website.

Major Qualification: This course is required to declare one or more of the majors in the Division of Physical & Biological Sciences. Your performance in this course may determine your eligibility for a science or math major. For more information on major qualification, please go to: Qualifying for a Major .

Coursework: There will be weekly homework sets, quizzes (in sections), one midterm, and a final. The midterm is scheduled for Tuesday, November 1 and the final is on Monday, December 5, 8:00-11:00am.

Very tentative schedule, subject to change:

Exams: The midterm covers Chapters 5 and 6 and is scheduled on Tuesday, 11/01. The final is on Monday, December 5, 8:00-11:00am. The first quiz will be on 10/24 and 10/25 in sections. The second quiz will be on 11/28 and 11/29 also in sections.

Midterm:       Practice Midterm, pdf     Solutions, pdf

Final:                Practice Final, pdf      Solutions, pdf

Important remarks: ``Make-up'' exams must be approved and arranged in advance. Absences from exams due to illness or personal crisis must be adequately documented. Your overall score in the course will be a weighted average of your scores on homeworks and the exams.

Homework assignments:

HW number   Problems
 #1 5.1: 1(a,b), 3(a,b), 8(b), 10  
5.2: 1(a,b), 2(a,c), 3, 4, 6 
5.3: 1, 3(a,c), 4(a,b), 8, 9, 11 
5.4: 1(a,b,c), 3(a,b)  
5.5: 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 16 
#2 5.5: 18, 19, 21, 30  
6.1: 1, 2, 4, 7 
6.2: 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16  
#3 6.2: 21, 25, 28, 30  
6.3: 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 18 
7.1: 2, 4, 5, 11, 23, 26  
#4 7.2: 1, 2, 3(a,c), 4(a,b,c), 5, 9, 11, 14, 17, 18  
7.3: 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15, 18  
#5 7.4: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 15, 17, 24  
7.5: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14  
7.6: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5  
#6 7.6: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 19, 20(a)  
8.1: 3, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23  
#7 8.2: 3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 17 
8.3: 1, 3, 7, 10, 11,  
8.4: 1, 2, 5, 9, 12, 13