Math 241 (Vector Calculus) Section 004
Fall, 2011

Lectures in LeConte 412
MWF 2:30 -- 3:20 PM


Professor: Peter J. Nyikos

Prof. Nyikos's Office: LeConte 406.     Phone: 7-5134

Email: nyikos @ math.sc.edu

The final exam in this course is on Thursday, December 8, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
The handout formula sheet will be a copy of the one you can find here.

Special Office hours for the first week of final exams:
Monday, Dec. 5: 10:00 - 11:00; Tuesday, Dec. 6: 1:50 - 4:50; Wednesday, Dec. 7: 1:30 - 4:30
Thursday, Dec. 8: 12:15 - 2:00
Friday, Dec. 9: 5:30 - 8pm Saturday, Dec. 10: 1-2 pm

The final exam covers the following sections of the textbook:

Usual Office Hours: Mondays, 12:45 - 1:15; Tuesdays, 2:00 -3:30; Wednesdays, 10:00 - 12:30; Thursdays, 10:00 - 11:00 and 12:00 -12:30; Fridays, 12:00 - 1:00; or any day by appointment (or any time I am in).
Exceptions announced in advance and posted on my office door if possible.

The textbook for this course is Calculus: Early Transcendentals by James Stewart, 6th edition.

The course covers the following sections of the textbook:

Learning Outcomes: Students will master concepts and solve problems based upon the topics covered in the course, including the following: vectors and basic operations on them, including dot and cross products; vector-valued functions and their integration and differentiation; functions of several variables and their maximization, differentiation and integration; vector fields and operations on them, including gradient, divergence, and curl; line and path integrals; Green's theorem.

The most emphasis will be on Chapters 14 and 15. Incidentally, the material in 13.3 is covered more thoroughly in Math 550 and/or Math 551, while the Chapter 16 material is covered very thoroughly in Math 550.

Only simple calculators (in other words, those that may be used in taking SAT tests) are needed for this course, and they will be needed only a small fraction of the time, outside of class. Neither the quizzes, nor the hour tests, nor the final exam will require their use, although they may save some time on a few problems. Programmable calculators are not permitted for quizzes, hour tests, or the final exam. Further information on policies and grading can be found here in pdf format.

The first hour test was on Monday, October 3, covering Chapters 12 and 13 (except 12.6 and 13.1). The second hour test was on Friday, October 28. It covered Sections 14.1 - 14.6, 15.2, and problems on lines in space, velocity, and position from 12.5 and 13.4. The third hour test was on Monday, November 21.

The first quiz was on September 2 and covered Section 12.3.
There were quizzes on Section 12.4 on Friday, September 9; on Wednesday, September 14 on 12.5; on Wednesday, September 28 on Section 13.4; on Wednesday, October 12 on Section 14.3; on Monday, October 31 on Section 14.7; on Wednesday, November 9, on Sections 15.7 and 15.8; and on Wednesday, November 16, on Section 15.6.

Practice problems from Chapter 12, not to be handed in:
12.1 numbers 1, 3, 9(b), 13
12.2 numbers 1, 7, 13, 17, 19, 21
12.3 numbers 1, 3, 7, 17, 23
12.4 numbers 1, 5, 13, 19
12.5 numbers 3, 9, 13, 19, 23, 31
Practice problems from Chapter 13, not to be handed in:
13.1 numbers 3, 7, 15, 19, 21, 23
13.2 numbers 3(b), 5(b), 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23
13.3 numbers 1, 5, 17, 21, 27
13.4 numbers 9, 11, 15, 25
Practice problems from Chapter 14, not to be handed in:
14.1 numbers 11, 15, 39, 55, 57, 59
14.2 numbers 5, 7, 11
14.3 numbers 1, 3, 9(b), 13, 15, 17, 29, 39, 41, 57
14.4 numbers 1, 3, 13, 19, 25
14.5 numbers 1, 5, 7, 13, 27
14.6 numbers 7, 11, 13, 21, 41
14.7 numbers 3 and 11
Practice problems from Chapter 15, not to be handed in:
15.2 numbers 3, 5, 13, 19
15.3 numbers 1,3, 5, 11, 19, 21 Added later: 39, 43, 45, 47
15.4 numbers 5, 7, 17, 19 [9 was done in class] Added later: 29, 31
15.6 numbers 1, 3, 7, 11 15.7 numbers 1, 3, 9 Added later: 17, 19
15.8 numbers 1, 3, 9
Practice problems from Chapter 15, not to be handed in:
16.1 numbers 21, 23
16.2 numbers 1, 5, 19.
16.3 numbers 7, 13.

Homework handed in on Monday, August 26:

Homework handed in on Monday, September 19:

Homework handed in on Wednesday, October 6: