Math 253 Section 102: Answers to Questions

1. Where can I get your lecture notes?
• I don't post my lecture notes as such. However, I post a scan of what I wrote for the document camera for every lecture, as well as the worksheet (if any) and its solution. This information is found in the lecture-by-lecture table at the bottom of the section webpage.
  
  
2. Where can I get my graded homework
• Graded homework is avaialble from the filing cabinet located next to classroom MATH 225 in the Mathematics Building (this is not far from my office).
  
  
3. When are assignments due?
• WeBWork assignments are due Fridays at 17:00.
• Written assignments are due Mondays at the beginning of class.
  
  
4. Where can I find more problems?
• Start with problems at the end of textbook chapters. Ideally, you'll do all of them. If you want a selection, see here.
• Google is your friend: look for past problem sets.
• Other textbooks from the library.
• The department publishes some Past Exams (also check out the ones for MATH 200, a sister course).
  
  
5. Which textbook should I buy?
• You need chapters 12,14,15 of the 7th edition of Stewart's calculus book. These are available either in a thinner book titled "Multivariable calculus" (the official course textbook) or in a thick book titled "Calculus: early transcendentals" which also includes chapters 1-11 used in our Math 100-101 sequence.
  
  
6. Which calculator should I use? Should I buy a graphing calculator?
• No calculators whatsoever are allowed in exams. Occasional homework problems may require numerical calculations, but nothing more sophisticated then exponentials, logarithms, trig functions and their inverses.
• All graphing in this course will be done by hand.