Teaching

Office: PGH 651D
Email: shanyuji@math.uh.edu
Tel: (713) 743-3454
Fax : 713-743-3505

Spring 2012 : Calculus III

• Course Math 2433
• Section 13625
• Time 10:00-11:00 am, MWF
• Room SW 102
• Instructor Dr. Shanyu Ji
• Office 651D PGH. (O) 713-743-3454, shanyuji@math.uh.edu
• Office Hours 1:00-2:00 pm, Monday and Friday, or by appointment.
• Prerequisite Math 1432


• Text CALCULUS, 9th edition . Authors: Salas, Hille, Etgen. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  Your registration in the course provides on-line access to Chapters 12 - 17 and to the answers for the odd-numbered problems in the Exercise Sets. The online text is in "pdf" format, suitable for printing. To access the online textbook: please register at CASA , and the site explains how.


• Recitations
  • MWF 9:00-10:00 am, section 13626, SEC 206, TA: Zhiheng Liu, liuzheng@math.uh.edu
  • MWF 9:00-10:00 am, section 13627, SEC 205, TA: Nidhi Jaiswal, nidhijai@math.uh.edu
  • MWF 8:00-9:00 am, section 16219 and 19442, SEC 102, TA: Ricky Ng, rickula@math.uh.edu
  • MWF 9:00-10:00 am, section 19549, SEC 204, TA: Ilija Jegdic , ijegdic@math.uh.edu
• Grading
  • Homework: 100 points,
  • Exam 1 (February 17, Friday, SW 102): 100 points,
  • Exam 2 (March 30, Friday, SW 102): 100 points,
  • Exam 3 (April 30, Monday, SW 102): 100 points.
  • Final Exam (May 4, Friday, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, SW 102), 200 points
  • The maximal total score = Homework + 2 Exams (the lowest exam dropped) + Final exam= 100+200+200=500.
  
  
• Homework Weekly homework will be assigned and collected by your TA. One of the lowest scores will be dropped. No late homework assignments accepted.


• Exams Three exams; the lowest grade will be dropped. The final exam is a comprehensive one. In all exams, close books/notes, and no calulator allowed. Bring your student ID card. Show your ID when you turn in the exam. No make up exam. No earlier final exam.


• Blackboard Vista We should use Blackboard Vista. Please go to http://www.uh.edu/webct/ to get a password to enter the Blackboard Vista.
  
  • You'll see two sessions:
    • MATH2433 - 2012SP-13625-Calculus III (the main section), and
    • MATH2433 - 2012SP-13626 (or 13627, 16219, 19549) -Calculus III (the recitation class section)
  • In the main section, I'll post my lecture notes, post review notes on each exam and make announcement.
  
  
  • In the recitation section, your TA may assign weekly homework, and you can also see your grades.
• Departmental Syllabus Please find the Departmental Syllabus for this course. Click here. From the syllabus, you can see which sections we will cover, and you should try to do all exercise problems assigned there.


• Math Help You also can get help from the Math Lab. at 222 Garrison .


• Disabilities Help Those persons who may be in need of additional help under Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines should approach me for consideration of the matter.


• Provional Syllabus (Reserve the right to change it depending upon our rate of progress)
  • January 18, section 12.1 Cartisian coordinates (the first day of class)
  • January 20, sections 12.2-12.3 Vectors
  
  
  • January 23, section 12.4 Dot product
  • January 25, section 12.5 Cross products
  • January 27, section 12.6 Lines
  
  
  • January 30, section 12.7 Planes
  • February 1, sections 13.1-13.2 Vector-valued Functions
  • February 3, section 13.3 Curves (review on exam 1 posted)
  
  
  • February 6, section 13.4 Arc length
  • February 8, section 13.5 Curvature
  • February 10, review for exam 1 (the solutions of the review on exam 1 posted)
  
  
  • February 13, section 14.1 Elementary examples
  • Februay 15, sections 14.2-3 Quadric Surfaces
  • February 17, Exam 1 (cover 12.1-13.5)
  
  
  • February 20, section 14.4 Partial derivative
  • February 22, section 14.5-6 14.5-6 Open sets and limits
  • February 24, section 15.1 Gradients
  
  
  • February 27, section 15.2 Directional derivative
  • February 29, section 15.3 Chain rule
  • March 2, section 15.4 Tagent planes of surfaces(review on exam 2 posted)
  
  
  • March 5, section 15.5 Local extreme values
  • March 7, section 15.6 Absolute extreme values
  • March 9, section 15.7 Method of Lagrange multipliers
  
  
  • March 12, spring holiday
  • March 14, spring holiday
  • March 16, spring holiday
  
  
  • March 19, section 15.8 Approximation by differentiation
  • March 21, section 15.9 Reconstruction of a function
  • March 23, review for exam 2 (The solution of the review on exam 2 posted)
  
  
  • March 26, section 16.2 Double integrals
  • March 28, section 16.3 Repeated integrals
  • March 30, Exam 2 (cover 14.1-15.9)
  
  
  • April 2, section 16.4 Dounble integrals in polar coordinates
  • April 4, section 16.6-16.7 Triple integrals
  • April 6, section 16.8 Cylindrical coordinates
  
  
  • April 9, section 16.9 Spherical coordinates
  • April 11, section 16.10 Jacobians and integrals
  • April 13, section 17.1 Line integrals (The review on exam 3 posted)
  
  
  • April 16, section 17.2. Fundamental theorem for line integrals
  • April 18, section 17.4 More on line integrals
  • April 20, section 17.5 Green theorem
  
  
  • April 23, review for exam 3 (The solution of the review on exam 3 posted)
  • April 25, section 17.6 Parametrized surfaces; 17.7 Surface integrals
  • April 27, section 17.8 Three important differential operators; 17.9 Divergence theorem; Stokes theorem
  
  
  • April 30, Exam 3 (cover 16.2-17.15. This is the last day of class)
  
  
  • May 4, Final exam