MATH 213

MATH 213-002 - Calculus III - Spring 2012

Announcements:

Final Exam. Your final exam will be given on Thursday, May 10 from 10:30am -- 1:15pm in the same room where we have class. About half of the exam will cover sections from Chapters 13 and 14, and about half will cover material from Chapters 11 and 12. The following sections will be omitted from the final exam (note that when I say a section is omitted I mean that there will be no problems explicitly from that section. However there may be a problem from an included section that requires skills that were presented in the omitted section.): Sections 11.1, 11.2, 11.9, 12.2, 12.3, 13.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8. Of course, any section from which there were no homework exercises assigned is omitted from the final exam as well.

Calculators are not permitted for the final exam.You are allowed to bring in 3 3x5 cards (both sides), or one half-sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper (both sides) with formulas to the final.

I believe you will find that much of the material from Chapter 11 has now become very familiar to you. I recommend that you do not spend too much time reviewing that material. The studying priorities I recommend are: 1. Chapter 13, 2. Chapter 14, 3. Chapter 12, 4. Chapter 11 in that order. All of the old midterm exams and quizzes are linked below to help you study. The link to the course homepage I made when I taught the course in Fall 2009 is still active and can be accessed from http://math.gmu.edu/coursehomepages.htm.

Here are links to old final exams from when I taught this course before: Fall 2009, Spring 06, Spring 04 (and solutions to Spring 04). I have been known to recycle problems.

Review Session for Final Exam. I will hold a review session for the final exam on Tuesday, 10:30 --11:45 in the same room where we have class (so just as though we had class on Tuesday). Come prepared with questions about any sections covered on the final exam. The scan of the review session is here.

Picking up Quiz 13. Quiz 13 has been graded and you can pick up your quiz outside George’s office anytime starting Friday. I was a little generous for this quiz and gave a 6 for a perfect paper, and a 5 for a paper that was pretty close to perfect. These scores will go into the books as being counted out of 5 points.

Final Exam Schedule. There is some confusion about when the Final will take place. The correct time is Thursday, May 10, 10:30am-1:15pm. This is confirmed officially here. The html version of the syllabus had the incorrect time on it. The pdf version of the syllabus had the correct time. Both now have the correct exam time. I greatly apologize for the confusion.

Quiz 13. Quiz 13 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, May 1, and will cover Sections 14.2 and 14.3. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Quiz 12. Quiz 12 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, April 24, and will cover Section 13.7. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Quiz 11. Quiz 11 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, April 17, and will cover Section 13.3 and 13.4. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Quiz 10. Quiz 10 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, April 10, and will cover Section 13.2. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Exam 2. Your second midterm exam will be given on Tuesday, April 3. It will cover Sections 11.9, 12.1-12.9. You are permitted to bring in one 3x5 card with formulas on it (both sides). No calculator is permitted for this exam. Exam problems will be similar to homework problems and to quiz problems but expect the problems to in general be more involved than the quiz problems. You will have the full class period for this exam.

Quiz 9. Quiz 9 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, April 3, and will cover Section 13.1. This is the same day as Exam 2. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Midterm grades. Midterm grades have now been submitted. What I did was compute (1/3)*(quiz average) + (2/3)*(exam score) to get a number out of 100. I assigned the midterm grade based on this number according to the scale given on the syllabus. I did not include plus or minus grades. You should check and make sure that the grade I gave you matches the grades you think you have. If there is a discrepancy please come and talk to me about it.

Quiz 8. Quiz 8 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, March 27, and will cover Sections 12.5 and 12.6. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Quiz 7. Quiz 7 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, March 20, and will cover Sections 12.4. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Note on solutions to Quiz 6. There was a typo on one of the versions of Quiz 6. The question read: The plane given by the equation 2x+3y=5+z (circle one)

(a) is parallel to the y--axis, (b) contains the origin (c) contains the line r(t) = <1,2,3> + t< 3,1,0>. The correct answer is: None of the Above. The posted solutions have the answer as (c).

Quiz 6. Quiz 6 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, March 6, and will cover Sections 12.1 and 12.2, emphasizing cylinders and quartic surfaces from Section 12.2. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Quiz 5. Quiz 5 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, February 28, and will cover the portion of Section 12.1 that we covered in class, namely the part on planes. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Exam 1. Your first midterm exam will be given on Tuesday, February 21. It will cover Sections 11.1-11.8. You are permitted to bring in one 3x5 card with formulas on it (both sides). No calculator is permitted for this exam. Exam problems will be similar to homework problems and to quiz problems but expect the problems to in general be more involved than the quiz problems. You will have the full class period for this exam.

Quiz 4. Quiz 4 will be given in recitation on Tuesday, February 21, and will cover Section 11.9. The quiz will focus on arclength parametrization and the arclength function. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz. Yes you do have a quiz on the same day that you have an exam.

Quiz 3. Quiz 3 will be given in your recitation on Tuesday, February 14, and will cover Section 11.6. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Quiz 2. Quiz 2 will be given in your recitation on Tuesday, February 7, and will cover Sections 11.3-11.4. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Quiz 1. Quiz 1 will be given in your recitation on Tuesday, January 31, and will cover Sections 11.1-11.3. It is a short quiz and should take no more than about 10 minutes. No calculator is allowed for this quiz.

Your GTA. Your GTA this semester is:

George Whelan

S&T 1, room 234

703 993 1479 (office phone)

gwhelan@gmu.edu

Office Hours: Wed. 11am-1pm.

Please take advantage of your GTA in order to get your questions answered.

Deadlines. Please be aware of all relevant deadlines. Details may be found here.

Quiz Solutions. Solutions to quizzes will be available below in pdf format shortly after the quiz is given.

Course syllabus: html, pdf.

List of exercises

Quiz solutions:

Quiz 1 (01-31): solutions.
Quiz 2 (02-07): solutions.
Quiz 3 (02-14): solutions.
Quiz 4 (02-21): solutions.
Quiz 5 (02-28): solutions.
Quiz 6 (03-06): solutions.
Quiz 7 (03-20): solutions.
Quiz 8 (03-27): solutions.
Quiz 9 (04-03): solutions.
Quiz 10 (04-10): solutions