Math 253 - Fall 2012

Course Head:Jim Bryan (also section 101 instructor)
Email:jbryan (at) math (dot) ubc (dot) ca
Office:MATH 226
Office Hours:MW 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Section 101 Lectures:MWF 11:00-11:50 - location: Math 100
Text: Multivariable Calculus, Edition 7E, James Stewart,
Office Hours:TBA

Marking Scheme

The student's grade will be determined by higher of the following two schemes:

Scheme 1
Webwork/Homeworks - 20%
Midterms - 30%
Final Exam - 50%

Scheme 2
Final exam grade minus 10 points.

Remarks
All homeworks, midterms, and the final are the same across all sections. The grades on the midterms and the final may be scaled. Scheme 2 above is meant to be your "safety net" --- for example if you do very poorly on one or two of the midterms for some reason, you can still get a good grade in the course by doing well on the final exam. Do not plan to use option 2!

Midterm Policies

The midterms will take place in class and will be common to all of the sections. There will be no calculators or cheat sheets allowed on the midterms or final exam. There will be no make-up midterms. If a student misses a midterm for a legitimate, well documented reason, then the remaining midterm and the final exam will be given more weight in the grading scheme for that student. A student missing both midterms will have to retake the course.

Homeworks

There will be two kinds of graded homeworks: webwork and written assignments from the book. Webwork assignments will be due on Fridays at 5:00 pm. The assignments can be gotten on the WeBWork site. You will need to log on with your Campus Wide Login. You will have an unlimited number of attempts for each problem and will not be penalized for incorrect answers. You can therefore continue to work on each problem until you have them all correct. That will earn you a 100% for your WebWork grade! Use the email instructor button for any questions (mathematical or otherwise) regarding the webwork. The "instructor" is not the instructor giving lectures, but is Ryan Schwartz who is a teaching assistant dedicated to help with WebWork.

There will be a written homework assignment every week due on Mondays in class. These assignments will be problems from the book and will be graded. These assignments will have fewer, but more challenging problems than the WebWork. The assignments will listed with the weekly syllabus below. There will also be weekly suggested problems from the book which will not be collected but are intended for practice. Weekly suggested problems will be maintained on the course page for section 103 and can be obtained here.

Course calendar, assignments

Reload this page regularly for updates.

Week 1 (Sept 4-- 7): Introduction, Three dimensional coordinate systems, vectors, Dot product(12.1, 12.2, 12.3)

No written homework due. Note that the WebWork assignment 0 due on Sept 7th will not count for a grade -- it is intended to get you used to webwork.

Week 2 (Sept 10-- 14): Cross Product, Equations of lines and planes, cylinders, and quadric surfaces (12.4, 12.5, 12.6)

Written homework assignment due in class, Monday Sept 17th: 12.2 #42, 12.3 #56, 12.4 #50

Week 3 (Sept 17-- 21): Functions of several variables, Limits and continuity (14.1, 14.2)

Written homework assignment due in class, Monday Sept 24th: 12.5 #78, 12.6 #46, 14.1 #44,#46, #50, 14.2 #40

Week 4 (Sept 24 -- 28): Partial derivatives (14.3), Tangent planes and linear approximation (14.4).

Written homework assignment due in class, Monday Oct 1st: 14.3 #74, #76, #88, 14.4 #1-6,#34, #40,

Week 5 (Oct 1 -- 5): Tangent planes and linear approximations (continued), Chain rule (14.5)

No written assignment due this week. Study for your midterm!
Here is the midterm from 2005. Problems 1, 2, and 3 are on material which could appear in the upcoming midterm.
Here is the 2005 final. Problems 1 and 7 are on relevant material.
The following practice problems are good preparation material for the midterm. Some of these problem sets have material which will not be covered on the midterm (these problem sets are from previous years), so use your common sense!
Practice problem set 1.
Practice problem set 2.
Practice problem set 3.
Practice problem set 4.
Practice problem set 5.
Practice problem set 6.
Practice problem set 7.
Practice problem set 8.


Week 6 (Oct 9 -- 12): Directional derivatives and gradient (14.6)

Midterm 1, October 10th, held in class Midterm will cover up to section 14.4
Solutions to the midterm.

Written homework assignment due in class, Monday Oct 15th: 14.5 # 46, 52, 56, 14.6: 52, 60

Week 7 (Oct 15 -- 19): Maximum and minimum values, Lagrange multipliers (14.7, 14.8)

Written homework assignment due in class, Wednesday Oct 24th: 14.7 #42, #52, 14.8 #10, #12, #20, #28

Week 8 (Oct 22 -- 26): Lagrange multipliers continued, double integrals over rectangles, iterated integrals (14.8, 15.1, 15.2)

Written homework assignment due in class, Monday Oct 29th: 14.8 #32, 15.2 #20, #22, #30.

Week 9 (Oct 29 -- Nov 2): Iterated integrals continued, double integrals (15.2, 15.3)

Written homework assignment due in class, Wednesday Nov 7th: 15.3 #32, #46, #48, #52 15.4 #10, #26, #38.

Week 10 (Nov 5 -- 9): Double integrals in polar coordinates, Applications (10.3, 15.4, 15.5)

Week 11 (Nov 14 -- 16): Applications of double integrals continued, surface area (15.5, 15.6)

Midterm 2, Nov 14th, held in class The midterm will cover up to and including section 15.4

Review material for the second midterm can be found here.

Solutions to midterm 2.

Week 12 (Nov 19 -- 23): Surface area continued, Triple integrals (15.6, 15.7)

Written homework assignment due in class, Wednesday Nov 21st: 15.5 #14, #16, 15.6 #10, #12, #24.

Week 13 (Nov 26 -- 30): Triple integrals in cylindrical and spherical coordinates (15.8, 15.9)

Written homework assignment due in class, Wednesday Nov 28st: 15.7 #32, #34, 15.8 #24, #30 15.9 #30, #36.




Solutions to the final exam.