Multivariable Calculus
Welcome to Math 201, Multivariable Calculus, this Fall 2014!
Course Information
- Course Syllabus
- Read Letters from past students
- Course Calendar
- Homework Assignments, Lecture Notes, Topics Covered
- Book problems for each chapter covered.
- Course Forum
- A link to Blackboard
- A link to WebWork
Key Dates: (subject to change)
- First Day of Class: Thursday, August 28
- First Exam: Thursday, October 2
- Second Exam: Tuesday, November 4
- Third Exam: Tuesday, December 9
- Last Day of Class: Thursday, December 11
- Final Exam: Thursday, December 18 from 1:45–3:45.
Multivariable Calculus links:
- Paul's Online Math Notes (A useful set of notes for our class.)
- Funny Little Calculus Text
- Fifty Famous Curves
- Desmos, an online graphing calculator
- Wolfram Alpha
- Get access to Mathematica at Queens College. (link to MyQC)
- Sage, an open source computational environment
Succeeding in Math Class:
- Success in Mathematics
- How to read a math textbook
- How to read a math textbook
- How to study for a math class
- An example of a mind map?
Mathematica Code snippets:
- ParametricPlot[{t + 2 Sin[2t], t + 2 Cos[5t]}, {t, -2 Pi, 2 Pi}]
- ParametricPlot[{1.5 Cos[t] - Cos[30t], 1.5 Sin[t] - Sin[30t]}, {t, -2 Pi, 2 Pi}]
- ParametricPlot[{Sin[t + Cos[100 t]], Cos[t + Sin[100 t]]}, {t, -2 Pi, 2 Pi}]
- ContourPlot3D[ x^2 + y^2 - z^2/4 == 1, {x, -4, 4}, {y, -4, 4}, {z, -8, 8}, Axes -> True, PlotRange -> All, AxesLabel -> {"x", "y", "z"}]
