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Math 234, Discussion 331 (WES)
Lecture: TR 11:00-12:15 (in B102 Van Vleck)
Discussion: MWF 9:55-11:50
Classroom: College Library, room 3255
Office Hours: Tuesday 8:15-9:15am, Thursday 1-2pm, and Friday 12-1pm, held in my office, VV 820. 

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Calendar and Worksheets:  I'll attach any worksheets I pass out in recitation here. 
  • Friday, 5/8: Final exam review.  Final Exam review part 2 and solutions.
  • Wednesday, 5/6: Green's Theorem: Worksheet 28
  • Monday, 5/4: Stokes' Theorem: Worksheet 27 (with typos corrected!), and solutions.
  • Friday, 5/1: Review of vector calculus thus far.  Worksheet 26, and solutions.  Final Review Sheet Part 1, which covers the material on exams 1 and 2, and solutions.  I'll post part 2, covering vector calculus, along with solutions, on Friday.  
  • Wednesday, 4/29: Flux integrals with the divergence theorem. Worksheet 25.
  • Monday, 4/27: Flux integrals.  Worksheet 24.
  • Friday, 4/24: Continued surface integrals of scalar functions.  Worksheet 23.
  • Wednesday, 4/22: Began surface integrals.  Started worksheet 22.
  • Monday, 4/20: Finished worksheet 21.
  • Friday, 4/17: Worksheet 21, a review of what we've done so far this unit.
  • Wednesday, 4/15: 
  • Monday, 4/13: No quiz.  Line integrals of vector fields and scalar functions.  Continue working on worksheet 20.
  • Friday, 4/10: Discussed curl and divergence, as well as potential functions.  Worksheet 19.5 and worksheet 20.
  • Wednesday, 4/8: Reviewed for exam.
  • Monday, 4/6: Reviewed for exam.  Here are the solutions to the 6 problems I wrote on the board.
  • Friday, 3/27: Review Sheet for exam 2, with solutions, and worksheet 19, with solutions.
  • Wednesday, 3/25: Discussed change of variables.  No worksheet.
  • Monday, 3/23: Quiz covering Lagrange multipliers (one constraint) and double integrals (computing, switching the bounds, setting up an integral based on words). Worksheet 18 and solutions.
  • Friday, 3/20: Continue working on worksheet 16, and worksheet 17. 
  • Wednesday, 3/18: Worksheet 16 (Double integrals and changing the order of integration)
  • Monday, 3/16: Quiz covering finding and classifying critical points, over an unrestricted domain and on a closed bounded region. Here is the solution to the last problem from class.
  • Friday, 3/13: Worksheet 15 (Lagrange multipliers)
  • Wednesday, 3/11: Continued working on worksheet 14 (closed bounded domains with calculations)
  • Monday, 3/9: Worksheet 14 (closed bounded domains without calculations).  Solution to 2(d).
  • Friday, 3/6: Continued working on worksheet 13
  • Wednesday, 3/4: Worksheet 13 (finding and classifying critical points) and solutions
  • Monday, 3/2: Worksheet 12 (implicit function theorem and directional derivatives -- we only did problem 1 on this worksheet)
  • Friday, 2/27: Worksheet 11 (chain rule)
  • Wednesday, 2/25: Worksheet 10 (a review for the exam) and solutions. A couple parts of the solution to problem 5 are missing -- they are here 
  • Monday, 2/23: Worksheet 9
  • Friday, 2/20: Worksheet 8 and solutions, page 1, page 2, and page 3; Review sheet for exam 1, with solutions
  • Wednesday, 2/18: Worksheet 7
  • Monday, 2/16: Finish worksheet 6; gradient of a function, directional derivatives.
  • Friday, 2/13: Worksheet 6
  • Wednesday, 2/11: No worksheet; practice graphing, polar coordinates, and limits.
  • Monday, 2/9: Quiz, no worksheet
  • Friday, 2/6: Worksheet 5
  • Wednesday, 2/4: Worksheet 4
  • Monday, 2/2: Quiz covering dot and cross products, equations of planes, basic parametric equations (lines and circles), continue working on Worksheet 3.  Solutions to worksheet 3.
  • Friday, 1/30: Worksheet 2 (skip problem 3) and Worksheet 3 (problems 1 and 2)
  • Wednesday, 1/28: Assignment #3 (Prof. Hanhart's worksheet)
  • Monday, 1/26: Continue working on Worksheet #1, look at Assignment #2.
  • Friday, 1/23: Worksheet 1 and solutions: dot and cross product of vectors
  • Wednesday, 1/21: (no worksheet)  Worked on Assignment #1 and basic properties of vectors, including addition and multiplication by scalars. 


Dates to Remember:
  • Review Session for the final exam will be held Tuesday, 5.12, 7-9pm, in Van Vleck B341.  We'll have pizza.
  • Review Session for the second exam will be held Monday, 4/6, 7:30-9:30 pm, in our regular classroom.  We'll have Chinese food.
  • Extra Office Hours for exam 2: Wednesday, 3/25, 12-2, Monday, 4/6, 4:30-5:30, and Wednesday, 4/8, 12-1
  • Review Session for the first exam will be held Sunday, 2/22, from 4-6 pm.  Room TBA; food will be provided.
  • Quizzes are held every Monday, at the beginning of recitation.
  • Midterm 1 will be held on Wednesday, 2/25, at 5:30-6:45 pm, room 125 in Ag Hall
  • Midterm 2 will be held on Wednesday, 4/8, at 5:30 pm, room TBA
  • Final Exam will be held on Thursday, 5/14, at 7:45 am, room TBA
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