Math 126A - Calculus III - Autumn 2019

Lectures

Monday/Wednesday/Friday
8:30 - 9:20
Mary Gates Hall 389


Instructor

Patrick T. Perkins
Padelford Hall C-544
Phone: 206-543-7746
pperkins 'at' uw.edu


Topics



The Course

This course covers a few miscellaneous topics from calculus. Most of our time will be spent on calculus in three dimensions. This part of the course is interesting because we actually live in three dimensional space. We first cover the basics of analytic geometry in three-space. We then discuss parametric equations and introduce the differential calculus of vector valued functions. This part of the class finishes with an introduction to multivariable integration. The last two weeks are devoted to a study of sequences and series. This culminates in Taylor's beautiful theorem. This material is useful for solving differential equations and for making approximations. We will use locally produced notes for this part of the class instead of the textbook. These notes are available here.

Grades

Your grade is determined by how you do relative to the class as a whole. Grades will be based on total points earned. There are 270 possible points:

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Text

Calculus, Early Transcendentals by James Stewart
(The Eighth Edition).

The only thing that students are required to purchase for this course is an access code for Webassign.

If you took Math 124 and/or Math 125 at UW recently and purchased a Lifetime of the Edition (LOE) access code for one of those courses, you do not need to purchase anything further.

If you need to purchace a text, the cheapest option is to follow this link and purchase LOE access to Webassign. This will come with an electronic version of the text. In addition, the LOE code will work for Math 324 (which also uses Stewart's text and Webassign) as long as the 8th edition is in use.

Homework

will be assigned daily, see the WebAssign site for the problems due. You are responsible for all the problems assigned (ie: any of it could appear on the exams).

Quizzes and Exams

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Rules for taking exams

Religious Accomodation

Washington state law requires that UW develop a policy for accommodation of student absences or significant hardship due to reasons of faith or conscience, or for organized religious activities. The UW's policy, including more information about how to request an accommodation, is available at Religious Accommodations Policy. Accommodations must be requested within the first two weeks of this course using the Religious Accommodations Request form.

Quiz section

On Tuesdays and Thursdays you will meet with a Teaching Assistant in a smaller group. This gives you a chance to get more of your questions answered. In addition to getting help with your homework, there will be time for a worksheet that you can work on while the TA circulates and answers questions. The midterm exams will be held in Quiz Section.

Please note that there is no "long" quiz section in Math 126.

The TAs are:

SectionsNameOfficeEmail
AA & ABKelvin LamPDL C-8Bklam0008 'at' uw.edu
AC & ADAlexander MasonPDL C-541acmason 'at' uw.edu

Calculators

There is a required calculator for Math 126. It is the Texas Instruments TI-30X IIS which can be purchased from many places for well under $20. The UW Bookstore carries orange ones, which they will buy back at the end of quarters, but any color is acceptable for Math 126.

You should show all work not doable on a scientific calculator. For instance, when you solve a quadratic equation, steps must be shown even if your graphing calculator can produce the solutions. Reading a numerical solution from a graph on a calculator is never sufficient.

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