Dr. Tsorng-Whay Pan's Math 2415

Math 2415 : Calculus III (Summer 2, 2026)
Session number: 13345

Instructor: Dr. Tsorng-Whay Pan

Office: 683 PGH
Phone: (713) 743-3448
Office hours: MoTuWeThFr: 2-2:30
e-mail: pan@math.uh.edu

Prerequisite: Math 2414 Calculus II (Student who does not have the prerequisite should drop this course).
Time: 12 PM - 2 PM MoTuWeThFr.
Room: SEC 201
Textbook: You must buy an access code in order to view the textbook, exercises, and etc. at the web page: CASA Campus Services
Slides: The slides of each Chapter will be posted on SharePoint.
Course Homepage: http://www.math.uh.edu/~pan/Math2415-2026-Summer.html
Technology Requirements and Tools:
- Computer and internet access are required.
- Go to Canvas to get the slides.
- You need to go to CASA Campus Services to get textbook, exercises, and etc, and to take EMCF quizzes.
Grading policy
- Exams: There will be in-class lab quizzes, three mid-exams, and one comprehensive final exam. There will be no online exams.
  Calculators are not allowed while taking all exams.
- Homework assignments: After each section is covered in the lecture, you need to work wout THE PROBLEMS POSTED AT THE BOTTOM of this page.
  Homework assignments (posted on Canvas) will not be collected. But in-class lab quiz problems will be chosen from HW assignments.
- Quizzes: In-class lab quizzes will be given at the recitation laboratory hours.
- ATTENDANCE: Roll will be taken at random times via giving in-class quizzes at lecture hours.
- Exam Dates (All exams will be given at SEC 102):
  - Exam I: 12:30PM-1:45 PM, Thursday, June 18, 2026.
  - Exam II: 12:30PM-1:45 PM, Friday, June 29, 2026.
  - Exam III: 12:30PM-1:45 PM, Monday, Juny 7, 2026.
  - Final Exam: 12 PM - 1:45 PM, July 9, 2026. (Do not leave town before the final exam.)
- The total of lab quizzes is worth 100 points. Each mid-exam is worth 100 points. Comprehensive
  final exam is worth 200 points. Some of the LOWEST SCORES OF QUIZZES will be DROPPED.
Important Notes and Connections
- Do not miss too many quizzes. Lower total score of quizzes hurts your course grade.
- You are allowed to miss only one mid-exam due to the fact that one of the lowest mid-exam scores can be
  replaced by the half of the Final Exam score.
- Math Help: you also can get help at the CASA tutoring center .
- Syllabus Changes:
  Please note that the instructor may need to make modifications to the course syllabus.
  Notice of such changes will be announced as quickly as possible through your email account at CougarNet.UH.EDU.
- UH Email: Please check and use your Cougarnet email for communications related to this course.
  Faculty use the Cougarnet email to respond to course-related inquiries such as grade queries or progress
  reports for reasons of FERPA. To access this email, login to your Microsoft 365 account with your Cougarnet credentials.
  Visit University Information Technology (UIT) for instructions on how to connect your Cougarnet e-mail on a mobile device
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  and the UH Go App. UH Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) offers 24/7 mental health support for all students,
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- Excused Absence Policy:
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  exam or other work that contributes to the course grade or a satisfactory alternative. Please read the full policy for details regarding
  reasons for excused absences, the approval process, and extended absences. Additional policies address absences related to
  military service, religious holy days, pregnancy and related conditions, and disability.
- Recording of Class:
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  please contact the Justin Dart, Jr. Student Accessibility Center. If you have an accommodation to record class-related activities,
  those recordings may not be shared with any other student, whether in this course or not, or with any other person or on any other
  platform. Classes may be recorded by the instructor. Students may use instructor’s recordings for their own studying and notetaking.
  Instructor’s recordings are not authorized to be shared with anyone without the prior written approval of the instructor. Failure
  to comply with requirements regarding recordings will result in a disciplinary referral to the Dean of Students Office and may result
  in disciplinary action.
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  Connect to Online Mathematics Help provided by the Department of Mathematics:
  
  Schedule and Homework Assignments
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          **Lecture slides will be available on Canvas website.
          **Lab quiz will be given almost every day.  
          **The following course schedule is subject to change.

          Review Quiz (due on June 4 at your lab).

Week 1: Don't use calculators when working on the following problems since you are not allowed to use them to take exams. 

 June 08: 11.1: Cartesian space coordinates: 2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12,13,16,17,18,20,21,25,27,29,30.
          11.2: Vectors: 1,3,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,16,19,20,21,22,23,24.

 June 09: 11.2 (continued)
          11.3: The dot product: 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,23,24,25,30.
         
 June 10: Quiz 1 (11.1 & 11.2)
          11.3  (continued)
          11.4: The cross Product: 3,5,6,7,9,10,11,13,15,18,20,22,28. 
          11.5: Lines: 1,2,3,4,6,9,13,15,21,25. 

         Review I for Exam I is available on Canvas.           
         Solutions of Review I will be available at the "Canvas" under the lecture session after 8 AM on June 15, 2026.
 
          (i). a unit circle, 
         (ii). a line segment, 
        (iii). a circular helix.
        
 June 11: Quiz 2 (11.3, 11.4)
          11.5: (continued)
          11.6: Planes: 1,3,6,7,8,11,12,17,22,26.
         
          
 June 12: Quiz 3 (11.5)
          12.1: Vector functions: 1,4,6,7,13,15,16,18,22,23,24,26.
          12.2: Differentiation formulas: 1,2,4,9,14,15.
          12.3: Curves: 1,3,4,5,6,7,13,18,21,22. 
        

Week 2: Don't use calculators when working on the following problems since you are not allowed to use them to take exams.  
  
  Matlab codes: (1) An upper circular cone and its level curves, 
                (2) A circular paraboloid and its level curves.
                (3) A saddle surface  and its level curves.
                (4) A smooth surface and its level curves.
                (5) A surface has a discontinuity at the point (0,0) and its level curves.
                (6) Another surface has a discontinuity at the point (0,0) and its level curves..   
                
 June 15: Quiz 4 (11.6, 12.1)
          12.4: Arc length: 1,2,3,4,9.
          12.5: Curvilinear motion & curvature: 15,19,23,24 (find curvature only for all problems).
          13.1: Basic terms and examples of functions of several variables: 1,2,3,4,6,13,14,15 (find domain only for all problems).
          13.2: Graphs; level curves and level surfaces: 
                Identify the level curves of problems 2,4,6 and 9.
                Identify the level surface of problems 10 and 11.
                

 June 16: Quiz 5 (12.2,12.3)  
          13.3: Limits and continuity: 1,2,3,10,11,13,14,16,18,19a,19b,19c,20a,20b,20c,21,23,24,26.
          13.4: Partial derivatives: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,12,16,20,23,30,31.
          
 Jube 17: Quiz 6 (12.4,12.5)
          14.1: Differentiability & Gradient: 1,4,6,9,10,14,16,23(a) 23(b).
          14.2: Gradients & directional derivatives: 1,2,6,9,11,16,17,18.

          Problem Discussion.


 June 18: 12PM-12:30PM: Discussion.
          12:30PM to 1:45 PM:  Exam I. 
          Exam I covers Ch. 11 and Ch. 12: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5(curvature only).
          
          The solution set of Exam I problems will be posted on the Canvas web page.  

 June 19: Holiday

        Review for Exam II is available on Canvas.
        Solutions of Review II will be available at the "Canvas" under the lecture session after 8 AM on June 22, 2026.

Week 3: Don't use calculators when working on the following problems since you are not allowed to use them to take exams.  

 June 22: Quiz 7 (13.1,13.2,13.3)
          14.3: The mean-value theorem & chain rules: 3,6,7,8,9,11,15,18,20.
          14.4: The gradient as a normal & tangent lines and tangent planes: 1,4,7,8,10,11.


 June 23: Quiz 8 (13.4,14.1)
          14.5: Local extreme values: 3,4,5,6,9,15,18.
          14.6: Absolute extreme values: 1,2,3,7,10,12,13.

 June 24: Quiz 9 (14.2,14.3)
          14.7: Lagrange multipliers & Maxima and minima with side conditions: 2,3,6,7.
          15.1: Double Integrals: none
          15.2: The evaluation of double integrals by repeated integrals: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,16,18,19,22.
   
         (14.9 will be covered after Ch. 15 is discussed.)

 June 25: Quiz 10 (14.4,14.5,14.6)
          15.2 (continued)
          15.3: Evaluating double integrals using polar coordinates: 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,12,18,19,20.

 June 26: 15.3 (continued)
          15.5: Triple integrals: none.

          Problem discussion.  
          

Week 4:  Don't use calculators when working on the following problems since you are not allowed to use them to take exams.  

 June 29: 12PM-12:30PM: Discussion.
          12:30PM to 1:45PM:  Exam II.
          Exam II covers Ch. 13 and Ch. 14: 13.1-13.4, 14.1-14.7.

 June 30: Quiz 11 (15.2) 
          15.6: Reduction of triple integrals to repeated integrals: 1,2,3,4,6,7,11,12,13,14,15,20,23.
          15.7: Cylindrical coordinates: 1,3,5,6,7,14,15.
 
         Review for Exam III is available on Canvas.
         Solutions of Review III will be available at the "Canvas" under the lecture session after 8 AM on July 1, 2026.
        
 July 1: Quiz 12 (15.3)
          15.8: Spherical Coordinates: 7, 8, 10, 12.
          16.1: Line integrals: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.
          14.9: Reconstructing a function from its gradient: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,17.
 
 July 2: Quiz 13 (15.6, 15.7) 
          16.2: The fundamental theorem of line integrals; independence of path: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.
          16.3: Green's theorem: 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10,12,13,14,15.

 July 3: Holiday
         
 Week 5:
 
 July 6: Quiz 14 (16.1, 16.2, 14.9)
          16.4: Parametrized surfaces; surface area:2,3,7,13.
          16.5: Surface integrals:4,5,9,12.
          16.6-16.8:  The divergence theorem & Stokes’ theorem (brief discussion)
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          Problem discussion.

 July 7: 12PM-12:30PM: Discussion.
         12:30PM to 1:45PM:  Exam III. 
         Exam III covers sections 14.9, 15.1-3, 15.5-7, 16.1-3.
         
 July 8: no class 
         
 July 9: Final exam, 12 pm - 1:45 pm (Do not leave town before the Final Exam date.)
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Important Notes and Connections

Schedule and Homework Assignments