Math 32A Lecture 3
Winter 2010
Calculus of Several Variables
| Lec 3 | Dis 3C | Dis 3D |
|---|
| Instructor | S Butler | Jed Yang |
| Day of Week | MWF | T | R |
| Time of Day | 12:00–12:50 |
| Location | BUNCHE 1209B | MS 6229 |
Links: Course website,
homework,
course outline.
TA Information
Email: 
Office: MS 6617A.
Office hours: TR 13:00–13:30, or by appointment.
SMC: M 14:00–15:00.
Agenda
03/30 T: Introduction, administration, and 3-D coordinates.
04/01 R: Introduction, administration, 3-D coordinates and vectors.
04/06 T: Vectors, dot products, and cross products.
04/08 R: Dot products and cross products.
04/13 T, 04/15 R: Parameteric equations, vector functions, and equations of lines and planes.
04/20 T, 04/22 R: Calculus of vector functions.
04/27 T, 04/29 R: Motion in space, functions of several variables, and quadric surfaces.
05/04 T, 05/06 R: Limits, continuity, and partial derivatives.
05/11 T, 05/13 R: Higher partial derivatives, tangent planes and linearisations.
05/18 T, 05/20 R: Chain rule. [Comic.]
05/25 T, 05/27 R: Directional derivatives and local extrema.
06/01 T, 06/03 R: Global extrema and Lagrange multipliers.