Text: Vector Calculus Marsden & Tromba 4th edition
Instructor:
Victor Ginzburg
Office: Kerr Hall 215
Office Hours: M 12-2pm, W 1:30-3pm, by appointment
Teaching Assistant:
Oren Rosen
Office: Kerr Hall 118
Office Hours: Tu/Th 2-3pm, by appointment
Discussion Sections:
Sections are available for students to work on homework with each other and
the TA, sort out difficult concepts, and take short quizzes.
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| M/W 8:00 - 9:50 am | Kerr Hall rm #165 |
| Tu/Th 12:00 - 1:50 pm | Kerr Hall rm #165 |
Coursework:
There will be weekly homework sets, one midterm, and a final. Weekly quizzes
will be given in sections during the Wednesday and Thursday classes except
during exam weeks. Homework assignments will be given in lecture and are
due the following week at the end of section on Wednesday and Thursday.
Exams:
The midterm is schedule for Friday, November 1, and the final will be on
Tuesday, December 3, 8:00-11:00am.
Practice Midterm: pdf postscript
Practice Final: pdf postscript answers
Oren's Review Sections Monday 12/2: 12-2pm
and 4-6pm in Kerr rm 165
Ill be around my office for most of the day from 12 on when not
in sections so feel free to drop by with questions.
Important remarks:
No credit will be given for late homework and quizzes. ``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 the best of weighted averages of your scores
on homework, exams, and quizzes. Your lowest homework and quiz score will
be dropped.
Homework: updated
11/21/2002
Links provided next to homework problems are for DPGraph files ( dpg see below) or static images of these graphs
( jpg). These are provided as a tool to help
visualize the geometry of the given problem. If you create graphs of other
homework problems using dpgraph that may be useful to other students, save
the file as an ascii text file (tiny!) and email it to Oren, he will post
it on this page.
| Due Date | Problems | |
| #1 | 9/25 & 9/26 | 5.1 # 1(a,b), 4, 7, 8 5.2 # 1(a,b), 2(a,c), 4, 6 |
| #2 | 10/2 & 10/3 | 5.3 # 1(a,b), 2(a,c), 6( jpg
dpg ), 7, 8, 9, 11(jpg dpg ), 13 5.4 #1(a,b,c), 2(a,b,c), 4, 8 |
| #3 | 10/9 & 10/10 | 5.6 # 4, 5, 9( dpg jpg a jpg b jpg c ), 10, 11,
12(dpg_a dpg_b
jpg ), 17, 19, 23, 24 6.2 # 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12 |
| #4 | 10/16 & 10/17 | 6.2 # 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32( dpg , jpg ) 6.3 # 1, 3 |
| #5 | 10/23 & 10/24 | 7.1 #2(a,c), 3, 5, 11(a) 7.2 #2(a,b,d(dpg) ), 3, 6, 15, 18 |
| #6 | 10/30 & 10/31 | 7.3 #1, 3, 10(a,c(dpg )), 13 7.4 #1, 2, 3, 5, 15 7.5 #1, 3, 5, 10 |
| #7 | 11/6 & 11/7 | 7.6 #1(dpg), 3, 5, 7(dpg), 16, 17 |
| #8 | 11/13 & 11/14 | 8.1 #4, 6, 7, 9, 11 |
| #9 | 11/20 & 11/21 | 8.2 #3,7(dpg
a dpg b),10,11,23 8.3 #5,13,17 |
| #10 | 11/27 (in lecture) | 8.4 #2, 3, 5 |
Supplementary Software:
The University owns a site licence to a graphing utility called DP Graph . All students, faculty and staff
can download a copy for free at:
Download DPGraph
This tool allows easy graphing of surfaces, curves, and vector fields. It
will be especially useful for visualizing volumes of intersection between
two or more surfaces. If you dont have access to a PC, it has been installed
on the PCs in JBE 109.
From the desktop open the following folders: "PC Server on 'be-lab'(F)" ->
"Math, Statistics, and Graphing" -> "DPGraph"
A great way to learn this software is by looking at examples. Upon executing
the program, choose "open" off of the menu and browse through the hundreds
of examples installed with the software. If you cant find the directory with
the galleries, search on your computer for files ending in the extension
".dpg".
Example: