MAT 238 Calculus III

Instructor:
Nándor Sieben

Textbook:
Lecture notes are available on Canvas. If you would like a prinbted textbook, I recommend to have any edition of Calculus early transcendentals by Jon Rogawski and Colin Adams. The relevant chapters are 12–17.

Alternate online books:
Whitman , Alternate location
CLP
Openstax
Michael Corral
Paul Dawkins
Gilbert Strang
Any standard printed Calculus book is useful.


Tests

Test dates are going to be announced one week ahead of time:

Unit 1:

includes sections 12.1-12.7, 13.1, 13.2, 13.5 : vectors, vector algebra, length, unit vectors, unitization, dot product, angle between vectors, perpendicular vectors, scalar projection, vector projection, parallel and perpendicular components, distance from a line, distance from a plane, cross product, normal vectors, area using the cross product, equations of lines in planes and in space, equations of planes, cylindrical and spherical coordinates, vector functions, derivatives integrals of vector functions, motion in space

Unit 2:

includes sections 14.1-14.7 : multivariable functions, surfaces, tangent planes, contour plots, limits, partial derivatives, functions form R^m to R^n, local linearization, derivative, chain rule, directional derivatives, gradient, critical points, local extrema, second derivative test, global extrema, optimization

Unit 3:

includes sections 14.8-15.6 : Lagrange multipliers, multiple integrals, iterated integrals, changing order of integration, change of variables, integration using polar cylindrical spherical coordinates, applications, volume, average value, mass, center of gravity

Unit 4:

includes sections 16.1-17.3 : line integral of scalar and vector fields, surface integral of scalar and vector fields, applications (length of curves, surface area, mass, center of gravity, work), conservative vector fields, potential, curl=rot=circulation density, divergence=flux density, Green/Stokes Theorem, Divergence Theorem
Canvas has the course syllabus, lecture notes, summary sheets, etc.
Homework:
Webwork

Our department computer lab is in AMB 222. Free tutoring are also available in AMB 137 Math Achievement Program . Other tutoring options .
Resources with videos
Computer algebra in Sage book
Sage cells
Sage examples
Old Mathematica notebooks

Links:

Mooculus lectures.
Online function grapher.
CalcPlot3D.
Graphcalc, a free graphing calculator
Calculus tools on the web.
LyX a word processor for writing mathematics
Academo
Desmos
2D vector field applet
3D vector field applet