Math 376 - Honors Multivariable Calculus (Spring 2018)

  • Lecture times and location: TR 9:30AM - 10:45AM, Engineering 2317
  • Course website: http://math.wisc.edu/~svs/376/
  • Syllabus: link
  • Instructor: Steven Sam email
  • Instructor office hours: 321 Van Vleck, Mondays 2:30-3:30, Tuesdays 12-1, or by appointment
  • Teaching assistant: Daniel Hast
  • TA office hours: TBA
  • Textbook: Apostol, Calculus Vol. II
  • Piazza page: link

Final exam is on Tuesday, May 8 from 5:05PM-7:05PM in Ingraham 120

Notes for course

Homework

Schedule

Jan 23 Implicit differentiation (9.6)
Min, max, saddle points, Hessians, second-order Taylor formula (9.9-9.12)
Jan 25 Finish 9.9-9.12
Lagrange multipliers (9.14)
 
Jan 30 Finish 9.14
Line integrals (10.1-10.4)
Feb 1 Fundamental theorems of calculus for line integrals (10.10, 10.11, 10.14)
 
Feb 6 Conditions for a vector field to be a gradient (10.15-10.16)
Constructing potential functions (10.17, 10.21)
Feb 8 Step functions and their integrals (11.1-11.3)
 
Feb 13 Multiple integrals (11.4-11.5)
Double integrals as iterated integrals (11.6-11.8)
Continuous functions are integrable (11.10)
Feb 15 Double integrals over more general regions (11.11-11.14)
 
Feb 20 More on double integrals; volumes
Feb 22 Green's theorem and applications (11.19-11.21)
 
Feb 27 Change of variables in double integrals (11.26-11.27, 11.29, 11.30)
Mar 1 Midterm 1
 
Mar 6 Extensions to higher dimensions (11.31-11.33)
Mar 8 Parametric representations of surfaces (12.1)
Fundamental vector product (12.2-12.3)
 
Mar 13 Surface integrals (12.7)
Change of parametrization (12.8)
Mar 15 Curl and divergence (12.12, 12.14)
Stokes' theorem (12.11)
 
Mar 20 Stokes' theorem continued
Solving curl F = G (12.16)
Mar 22 Divergence theorem (12.19)
 
Mar 27 Spring break - no class
Mar 29 Spring break - no class
 
Apr 3 Linear differential equations of order n (6.4)
Existence-uniqueness of solutions (6.5, 6.6)
Apr 5 Constant-coefficient case (6.7, 6.8)
 
Apr 10 Particular solutions, Wronskians (6.10, 6.11, 6.12)
Apr 12 Midterm 2
 
Apr 17 Systems of linear differential equations (7.1)
Calculus of matrix functions (7.2, 7.3)
Matrix exponentials (7.5)
Apr 19 Matrix exponentials and differential equations (7.6-7.9, 7.16)
Methods for calculating matrix exponentials (7.10)
 
Apr 24 Proof of uniqueness-existence for linear first-order systems (7.21)
Apr 26 Normed vector spaces
Banach fixed point theorem
 
May 1 Fixed point theorem and differential equations
Review
May 3 Review
 
May 8 Final exam (5:05PM - 7:05PM)