Multivariable Calculus
Welcome to Math 201, Multivariable Calculus, this Fall 2015!
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 WebWork
Key Dates: (subject to change)
- First Day of Class: Thursday, August 27
- First Exam: Thursday, October 1
- Second Exam: Tuesday, November 3
- Third Exam: Tuesday, December 8
- Last Day of Class: Thursday, December 10
- Final Exam: Thursday, December 17 from 11:00–1:00.
Office Hours:
I am happy to help you with your homework and other class-related questions during my office hours. I have official office hours as posted on my schedule. In addition, you are welcome to make an appointment or stop by my office in Kiely Tower Room 606 at any time. (You can call my office phone 718-997-5964 to see if I'm there.)
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"}]
