Markus Schmidmeier
Mathematical Sciences
Florida Atlantic UniversityCalculus III (Spring 2006)
Hi, here is some information about my course Calculus III, MAC 2313. We meet Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 10:00 - 10:50 p.m. in GS 107.
Textbook and Topics
We are going to use the textbook Calculus - Early Transcendentals, 5th edition by James Steward ( ISBN 0-534-39321-7). In this course we are going to cover the following chapters.
Chapter 12 Vectors and the geometry of space --- as needed Chapter 13 Vector Functions --- we start here Chapter 14 Partial Derivatives Chapter 15 Multiple Integrals Chapter 16 Vector Calculus Credit
Homework: Every week, homework problems will be assigned; some problems may come up on a quiz.
Quizzes: There'll be a quiz every Friday; the ten best quizzes count for 1/3 of the grade.
Extra Credit: You can obtain extra credit for assignments done on a computer algebra system, say on Maple or MuPAD.
Midterm Exam: The first midterm took place on Wednesday, March 1, 2006, it counts for 1/4 of the grade. We will have a second small midterm exam on Monday, April 24, counting for two quizzes. There will be three problem on this 25 minutes exam; the two best answers count.
Final Exam: The final exam is comprehensive. The final exam will take place on Sunday, April 30, 2006 from 4:00 - 6:30 p.m. in GS 109. It will count for 5/12 of your grade.
Contact Me
Office hours: MWRF, 11 a.m. - 12 noon, in SE 278 (or after class in our classroom).
Course Web Page: http://www.math.fau.edu/schmidme/calc3-2006.html
E-mail: markus @ math.fau.edu..
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