Lecturer:
William Duke
Lecture: MWF 1-1:50pm, MS 5200
Office: MS 6119
Office Hours: MW 3-4:30pm.
Course webpage:
http://www.halfaya.org/ucla/classes/32a.4.08s/
TAs: Hao Huang and
John Leo
Other sources of help include the
Student Math Center, the
Math/Science Tutorials,
and private tutors.
We will follow the standard Math 32A Syllabus. Homework is due each Friday in lecture and will cover material up to and including Wednesday's lecture.
| Week | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | March 31, Section 13.1 Three Dimensional Coordinate Systems |
April 2, Sections 13.2 Vectors |
April 4, Section 13.3 Dot Product Homework 1 due |
| 2 | April 7, Section 13.4 Cross Product |
April 9, Section 13.5 Equations of Lines and Planes |
April 11, Section 11.1 Curves Homework 2 due |
| 3 | April 14, Section 14.1 Vector Functions |
April 16, Section 14.2 Derivatives and Integrals of Vector Functions |
April 18, Section 14.3 Arc-length and curvature Homework 3 due |
| 4 | April 21, Section 14.4 Motion in space |
April 23, catch up |
April 25, Section 15.1 Functions of several variables Homework 4 due |
| 5 | April 28 Midterm 1 (covers up to 14.4) in HUMANITIES A51 |
April 30, Section 13.6 Cylinders and quadric surfaces |
May 2, Section 15.2 Limits and Continuity Homework 5 due |
| 6 | May 5, Section 15.3 Partial Derivatives |
May 7, Section 15.3 Partial Derivatives |
May 9, Section 15.4 Tangent Planes Homework 6 due |
| 7 | May 12, Section 15.5 Chain Rule |
May 14, Section 15.5 Chain Rule |
May 16, catch up Homework 7 due |
| 8 | May 19 Midterm 2 (covers 15.1-15.5, 13.6) in HUMANITIES A51 |
May 21, Section 15.6 Directional Derivatives |
May 23, Section 15.6 Directional Derivatives |
| 9 | May 26 Holiday |
May 28, Section 15.7 Maximum and Minimum Values |
May 30, Section 15.7 Maximum and Minimum Values Homework 8 due |
| 10 | June 2, Section 15.8 Lagrange Multipliers |
June 4, Section 15.8 Lagrange Multipliers |
June 6,
Review Homework 9 due |
Monday June 9, 3-6pm, location to be announced.
Your grade will be based on the better of the following two scores:
You must take the final exam to pass the class. Midterm dates are listed in the schedule. There are no make-ups for exams. All exams are closed book with no calculators allowed. You need only bring something to write with; all paper will be provided.
Although homework is only given 10% of the grade, it is the most important part of the course. You must put serious effort into doing the homework to really learn the material, which is the true goal of the course. You may work with other students and get help with the problems, but you should try to solve every problem on your own first, and you must write up and be sure you understand all solutions on your own.
There are nine homework assignments, due Friday in lecture. No late homework is accepted. Your two lowest homework scores will be dropped, but be sure to still complete every assignment.
Five problems (possibly four for shorter assignments) will be carefully graded from each assignment. Each homework assignment will be worth 20 points. The graded problems will be worth 15 points. The remaining 5 points will be for general completeness, readability and correctness. (If four problems are graded those problems will be worth 16 points with 4 points for completeness and so forth.) Graded homework will be returned in the next discussion section.