Welcome my webpage for Math 1920! This semester we will be focusing on the geometry of three-dimensional space, calculus in several variables, and the major theorems of vector calculus: Green's Theorem, Stokes's Theorem, and the Divergence Theorem.
My office hours are Monday and Wednesday 3:30-5:00 in Malott 218.
Homework is due at the beginning of section (8:00 or 9:05, as appropriate) on the Thursday morning no more than eight days from the lecture at which the homework was assigned. That is, on Thursday you should turn in homework from the Monday of the same week and from Wednesday and Friday of the previous week.
Homework should be neat and stapled. Grading of homework will be based on completeness, timeliness, and neatness.
Up to three exercises in each assignment may be chosen by the student for careful consideration. Write at the top of the homework page: "Please look at" followed by the numbers of the exercises. I will make comments on these chosen exercises and, when appropriate, indicate how I would grade a similar exercise on an exam.
Here is what we covered in each meeting:
08/28 -- introduction to section; finding the potential due to a charged disk
09/02 -- geometry with vectors
09/04 -- dot product: parallelogram law, polarization identity, planes as level sets of linear functions