Need to Review Calculus 1 & 2 (1131/1132)?
A Few Useful Links:
Paul’s Online Math Notes, Calculus III
3D Function Grapher (also does Parametric Surfaces!)
Learning Activities, By Week:
Week | Section | Topic | Learning Activities | Assessments |
1 | 12.1 | Three-Dimensional Coordinate Systems | Visualizing the Octants | |
12.6 | Cylinders and Quadric Surfaces | Quadric Surfaces | ||
12.2 | Vectors | Visualizing Vectors in 3D | ||
2 | 12.3 | The Dot Product | Dot Products in 3D
Direction Angles (*useful application) Projections (*useful application) |
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12.4 | The Cross Product | Cross Products
Volume of a Parallelepiped (*useful application) |
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12.5 | Equations of Lines & Planes | Line in 3D (static) vs Line in 3D (variable) | ||
14.1 | Functions of Several Variables | A Gallery of Examples | ||
14.3 | Partial Derivatives | Cross Sections | ||
3 | 14.2 | Limits and Continuity | ||
14.4 | Tangent Planes and Linear Approximation | Linear Approximation | ||
14.5 | The Chain Rule | |||
14.6 | Directional Derivatives and the Gradient Vector | Directional Derivatives Video | ||
4 | 14.7 | Maximum and Minimum Values | Max and Min Video | |
14.8 | Lagrange Multipliers | Absolute Max/Min Video | ||
15.1 | Double Integrals over Rectangles | Double Integrals over Rectangles Video
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5 | 15.2 | Double Integrals over General Regions | Double Integrals over General Regions Video | |
15.3 | Double Integrals in Polar Coordinates | |||
6 | Exam 1 | |||
15.6 | Triple Integrals | Modeling Solids Handout (Play-Doh!)
Surface Area Video (*helpful for Chapter 16) |
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15.9 | Change of Variables in Multiple Integrals | Change of Variables Video | ||
7 | 15.7 | Triple Integrals in Cylindrical Coordinates | Visualizing Cylindrical Coordinates | |
15.8 | Triple Integrals in Spherical Coordinates | Visualizing Spherical Coordinates
Basic Shapes in Spherical Coordinates |
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8 | 13.1 | Vector Functions | A Space Curve | |
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Derivatives and Integrals of Vector Functions | |||
13.3 | Arc Length | Linear Approximation of Arc Length | ||
9 | 16.1 | Vector Fields | Simple 2D Vector Field | |
16.2 | Line Integrals | |||
16.2 | Line Integrals (continued) | |||
10 | 16.3 | The Fundamental Theorem for Line Integrals | Fundamental Theorem for Line Integrals Video | |
16.4 | Green’s Theorem | Green’s Theorem Video
Summary of Line Integrals (methods and deciding what to use) |
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11 | Exam 2 | |||
16.5 | Curl and Divergence | |||
12 | 16.6 | Parametric Surfaces and Their Areas | A Gallery of Examples | |
16.7 | Surface Integrals | |||
13 | 16.9 | Divergence Theorem | ||
14 | 16.8 | Stokes’ Theorem | Summary of Surface Integrals (decision-making and methods) | |
Final Exam Review |