Text: McCallum, Hughes-Hallet, et. al., Multivariable Calculus,
THIRD EDITION
Prerequisites: MTH 142 or equivalent
Calculators: A graphing calculator is required.
Course's Web Page: You should consult this page often for current
announcements, times and location of exams, practice exams,
Maple assignments, and so on.
Sections
sections 01 and 03
sections 02 and 04
FINAL EXAM will be held FRIDAY DECEMBER 12, 11.30am -- 2.30pm,
INDEPENDENCE AUDITORIUM.
Here is a link to the registrar office:
finals schedule.
The final exam is comprehensive and will be held for all the
sections at the same time above.
Exams:
Solutions to exam3 are here: exam3-solutions
Exam 3 will be held on Monday December 1,
Pastore 124,
6.00pm -- 7.30pm.
You get the following formula sheet to use during the exam:
formula-sheet.pdf (use acrobat reader).
Practice exam 3:
pdf (use acrobat reader)
postscript
and as a webpage.
You can find the answers here:
pdf (use acrobat reader)
postscript
and as a webpage.
Exam 2 will be held on Monday October 27, Pastore 124,
6.00pm -- 7.30pm.
PRACTICE EXAM 2 and
answers for it.
Exam 1 will be held on Monday September 29, East Hall Auditorium,
6.00pm -- 7.30pm.
PRACTICE EXAM 1 and
answers for it.
Maple:
Here is a worksheet with the third maple assignment
maple3.mws
Here is a version of the maple3.mws file above for maple9:
maple3-edition9.mws
Here you can check your answers to the second maple assignment
maple2-solutions.mws
Calendar and Syllabus Click below to see the sections from the text that are required and the problems suggested as homework:
Evening Exams and the Final There will be three evening exams scheduled on the weeks indicated in the syllabus. The exact time and location of the evening exams, as well as the final exam, will be announced in class and posted on this page.
Grading Your grade will be based upon the following 700 points:
| Three evening exams | 300 points |
| Final exam | 200 points |
| Instructor's assignments | 200 points |
Maple Worksheets We will continue our work with
Maple in this course. This powerful software is particularly useful in
multivariable calculus to visualize graphs and surfaces in three dimensions.
Below are links to Maple worksheets for MTH 243. Your instructor will assign
selected worksheets to be graded. You may find it useful to look at all of
them. To open the worksheets you need a copy of Maple on the machine you are
working on. Maple is available in all URI computer labs. You may purchase a
student copy to install on your personal computer.
Download "Graphs
of Functions of Two Variables "(graphs.mws)
Download
"Contour Diagrams" (contours.mws)
Download "Partial
Derivatives and Tangent Planes" (tangent.mws)
Download
"Gradients, Directional Derivatives and Rates of Change" (gradients.mws)
Download "Double
Integrals" (doubint7.mws)
Download
"Parametric Curves and Surfaces" (parsur.mws)
Download "Graphics
Showcase" (show.mws)
Information on Maple 9:
If you are using Maple 9 (for example in the library), let maple 9
to translate the worksheets from our web page into the maple9 format.
Then the worksheets will work fine.
A general info on maple worksheets:
When transferred over internet (including email), any maple
worksheet must be treated as a binary file.
Also, the name for the number pi in maple is 'Pi'. 'pi' is used
to name a number theoretic function and will give you an error message
(usually 'not able to evaluate your fuction' message).
Available Help In addition to your instructor's office hours, the Mathematics Department has an extensive system of walk-in help sessions scheduled in Roosevelt Hall. You can find the schedule by clicking on the link below.
Our Maple helpers are available at the Mathematics Department CyberLab,
Tyler Hall, Room 101. The schedule is posted below.