Vector Analysis
MATH 550 sections 401/501, Spring 2008

Professor Matt Miller
miller@math.sc.edu
Department of Mathematics
University of South Carolina

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  • Information [pdf] in printable form. My new office hours are TTh 2:00-3:15 and MW 1:30-3:00, and of course by appointment. I will be in either LC 300i or LC 411.
  • Homework and other Assignments Caution: this link has not been updated beyond the horizontal rule.
  • This semester's exams
  • First exam, solutions, and correction with supplement
  • Second exam See the homework page at Exam 2 for more solutions to problems.
  • Final exam
  • Old exams (Fall, 2002 and Spring, 2006) Please note that with the packaging of MATH 250-550 the overlap of the two courses 241-550 has been eliminated. You'll probably find that the first two exams given here for 2002 largely duplicate what you did in MATH 250/241, so look to the third exam for more closely related problems to what we are doing now (you'll see that the "new stuff" used to be done at breakneck speed, because of the large overlap). From the length of the exams I would guess that this was a TuTh class, but that I gave three exams. The exams for 2006 will give a better idea of the range of topics, pace, and level of the exams coming up this semester.
  • First exam, 2002
  • Second exam, 2002
  • Third exam, 2002
  • Final exam, 2002
  • First exam, 2006
  • Second exam, 2006
  • Final exam, part A, 2006
  • Final exam, part B, 2006
  • Solutions
  • Project possibilities: I will continue to modify this list as ideas come to me. The deadline for submission of the written report is April 24 (if you need an extension discuss this with me before the due date); we won't have time for many, if any, class presentations; instead I will meet with you to discuss the written report and to make sure that you really do understand what you have written.
  • Also of interest
  • There is a classic book, originally published in 1973, now in its 4th edition and in paperback, called Div, Grad, Curl, and all that: an informal text on vector calculus by H. M. Schey, that might be cheap on the internet (especially used), that you may want to pick up. It is light on rigorous theory, but it hits the highlights except for the change of variables theorem (which technically is more part of "multivariable calculus" than "vector calculus" if you want to be picky about nomenclature).
  • Website for the text
  • Website for the previous text by Susan Colley
  • Website for course materials by other instructors
  • Internet Mathematics Library
  • Banchoff's projects (really neat pictures)
  • Maple worksheets
  • My worksheets (badly in need of updating)
  • Quite a few that have been used here at USC are available through the course pages of individual professors listed below.
  • Maple site for mathematics (links to Calc III, Vector Calculus, etc.)
  • Maple Education Powertools (links to Calc III, Vector Calculus, etc.)
    • Last modified: April 22, 2008