Math 202: Vector Calculus, Spring 2018

MWF 11:00-11:50am, Lib 389

Office Hours: MWF 1:30-2:30pm in Lib 306

Drop-in tutoring: SuMTWTh 7-9pm, Lib 387

Text: Calculus and Analysis in Euclidean Space by Jerry Shurman (Reed proxy link to freely available pdf and $25 MyCopy softcover edition)

202syllabus.pdf / 202syllabus.tex

Math 202 S02 on Piazza

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Week 1: January 22 - 26

• M: Welcome and warmup. Handout
• W: Syllabus, §2.2. RQ, Handout, HW
• F: §2.3. RQ, Handout, HW

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Week 2: January 29 - February 2

• M: §2.4. RQ, Handout, HW
• W: Determinants Done Hastily. RQ, HW
• F: §3.10. RQ, Handout, HW

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Week 3: February 5 - 9

• M: §§4.1, 4.2. RQ, Handout, HW
• W: §4.3. RQ, Derivative Demo (and a description of the demo), HW
• F: §4.4. RQ, HW

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Week 4: February 12 - 16

• M: §4.5. RQ, Handout, HW
• W: §4.6. RQ, Handout, HW
• F: Applied Jacobians. (No RQ; review §§4.1-4.6.) Handout, HW

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Week 5: February 19 - 23

• M: §4.7. RQ, HW
• W: §4.8. RQ, HW
• F: Review session. Two-hour take-home exam distributed, due at the start of class on Monday, February 26. Review questions.

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Week 6: February 26 - March 2

• M: Optimization revisited. No RQ, HW
• W: §5.4. RQ, Handout, HW
• F: Theorem statements and meaning from §§5.1-5.3, §5.5. RQ, HW

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Week 7: March 5 - 9

• M: §§6.1-6.2. RQ, HW
• W: §6.3. RQ, HW
• F: §§6.4-6.5. RQ, HW

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Spring break: March 12 - 16

Spring break does not count towards revision deadlines. Make sure to complete HW7F and RQ8M.

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Week 8: March 18 - 22

• M: §6.6. RQ, Handout, HW
• W: §6.7. RQ, HW
• F: §§6.8-6.9. RQ, Handout, HW

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Week 9: March 25 - 29

• M: §6.9. RQ, HW
• W: §9.1. RQ, HW
• F: §9.2. RQ, HW

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Week 10: April 2 - 6

• M: §9.3. RQ, HW
• W: §§9.4-9.5. RQ, Handout, HW
• F: Review session AND DONUTS 🍩. Two-hour take-home exam distributed, due at the start of class on Monday, April 9. Review questions.

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Week 11: April 9 - 13

• M: §§9.6-9.8. No RQ (but do the reading!), HW
• W: §§9.9-9.10. RQ, HW
• F: §9.11. RQ, HW

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Week 12: April 16 - 20

• M: §§9.12-9.13. RQ, HW
• W: §9.14. RQ, HW
• F: §9.16. RQ, HW

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Week 13: April 23 - 27

Notes on de Rham cohomology.

• M: De Rham cohomology, course evaluations. HW
• W: De Rham cohomology of punctured Euclidean space. HW
• F: The Brouwer fixed point theorem.

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Reading Period: April 30 - May 4

Office hours MWF 3-4pm.

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Final Exam: Tuesday, May 8

Three-hour comprehensive take-home exam with an emphasis on more recent material. Retrieve exam from the box outside my office at or after 9am on Tuesday, May 8. Return the exam under my office door by 9am on Wednesday, May 9. The only external resource permitted is a single 8.5"x11" or A4 sheet of notes (two-sided).

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The $\LaTeX$ document preparation system

Poor handwriting? Love escape characters? Too much free time? Try $\LaTeX$!

• $\LaTeX$ at Reed.
• A short guide [pdf] to writing mathematics with $\LaTeX$.
• Sample $\LaTeX$ input / output: sample.tex / sample.pdf.
• Change .pdf to .tex on (nearly) any file accessed from this page to get the $\LaTeX$ source code.

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Kyle M. Ormsby