Autumn 2011
Math 221: Multivariate Calculus     Sections 501 & 502

Some research on sleep and performance.
Read this on a survey of students' work habits.
Homework can be found here.
Microsoft mathematical software available here. This link is courtesy of Aaron Moore of 502.
Instructor: Frank Sottile       Weekly schedule
No Telephone (Budget Cuts)
email: sottile@math.tamu.edu
      Text-only email with 221 and section number in the subject line.
WWW: https://FrankSottile.github.io
Office: Milner 303
 Office Hours : Tuesday12:00–13:30
Wednesday 12:50–14:00
By appointment (espc. MWF 10-11)
Textbook: Calculus, early vectors, by Stewart.
secondary sources: Whitman/Guichard (free, on-line).
Strang's Calculus (From MIT open courseware)
Lectures:   § 501   MWF 11:30–12:20 Blocker 164
  § 502   MWF   9:10–10:00 Blocker 117
Recitation Leaders:   § 501   Yi-Ching Wang
  § 502   Chris Brooks
Recitations:   § 501   T 11:10–12:00 CE 136
  § 502   Θ  8:00–  8:50 CE 222
Help Sessions: Sunday–Thursday 8–10 PM in Blocker 117
Course Content: From the catalog: Vector algebra and solid analytic geometry; calculus of functions of several variables; Lagrange multipliers; multiple integration, theory, methods and application; line and surface integrals, Green's and Stokes' theorems; Jacobians.
Prerequisites. Math 152 or Math 172 or consent of instructor.
Special Note:     Your goal in this course, as in every course that you ever take, should be a complete mastery of the material. Anything less is aspiring to mediocrity and doing yourself a disservice. I expect you to read the section in the text that we will be covering before we meet. Come to class ready to ask questions about what you do not yet know. After class, re-read the text and your notes, and do some exercises to complete your mastery of the material. Finally, ask questions in class, lots of them.
Calculator: There will be no use of calculators on exams.
Course webpage: /~sottile/teaching/11.2/221.html
Departmental page for Math 221
The home page for Calculus: Calculus.org. Interactive Gallery of quadric surfaces.     Hyperboloid of Manchester.
Grading
You will be expected to attend all class meetings; I do keep track of such matters, but allow a few absences before penalties begin. There will be two in-term exams, each worth 20% toward your final grade, and one final exam, worth 35%. The remaining 25% will be homework and attendance.
Flatland   Discussion in class on Monday 21 November.
Exam Schedule
First exam: Friday 7 October.
Second exam:   Friday 18 November.
Final Exam: § 502 Friday  9 December 10:00–12:00
§ 501 Monday 12 December 10:30–12:30
Emergencies: If you have a valid reason (medical or family emergency) for missing an exam, then I will give you an alternative exam, preferably before the scheduled exam. Missing an exam without a valid reason will result in a score of zero for that exam.
Homework:
Homework is assigned most classes, and will be due on Fridays. It will be marked and returned during recitations. More details are on the homework page.

    Late homeworks are not accepted. While it may not be possible to mark all problems assigned, you should hand in all the assigned problems as a random selection of the problems will be corrected, graded, and recorded for your homework score. The two lowest homework scores will be dropped before computing your grade. First Assignment : Read this web page, and send me a text-only email that you have read and understood the course descriptions and policies. Please also answer the following questions:
    (1) Why are you taking this course?
    (2) What do you hope to get out of this course?
    (3) Is there anything else that you want to tell me (that is relevant to the course)?

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