Math 2415 : Calculus III (Fall, 2024)
Session number: 11459
Instructor: Dr. Tsorng-Whay Pan
- Office: 683 PGH (if UH campus is open.)
- Phone: (713) 743-3448
- Office hours: 1 pm-2 pm MWF.
- e-mail: pan@math.uh.edu
- Prerequisite: Math 2414 Calculus II (Student who does not have the prerequisite should drop this course).
- Time: 12 PM - 1 PM MWF.
- Room: SW 102
- Textbook: You have to have an access code in order to view the textbook, exercises, and etc.
via the web page: CASA Campus Services
- Slides: The slides of each Chapter will be posted on the "Canvas" at the lecture section
in AccessUH.
- Course Homepage: http://www.math.uh.edu/~pan/Math2415-2024-Fall.html
- Technology Requirements and Tools:
- Computer and internet access are required.
- Go to Canvas to get the slides.
- You need to go to CASA Campus Services to get textbook, exercises, and etc.
Grading policy
- Exams:
There will be three mid-exams and one comprehensive final exam. There will be no online exams.
Calculators are not allowed while taking all exams.
- Homework assignments:
After each section is covered in lecture, you better do the PROBLEMS POSTED AT THE BOTTOM of this page.
Problems on lab quizzes will be chosen from those postted problems.
Homework assignments (posted on Canvas) will be collected.
- Quizzes: In-class lab quizzes will be given almost every week (see below).
- Exam Dates (All exams will be given at SEC 101):
- Seating map
- Mid-Exam 1: 12 PM - 12:50PM, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024.
- Mid-Exam 2: 12 PM - 12:50PM, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.
- Mid-Exam 3: 12 PM - 12:50PM, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024.
- Final Exam: 12 PM - 1:50 PM, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024.
(Don't leave UH before the scheduled final exam.)
- The total of lab quizzes and HW assignments is worth 100 points. Each mid-exam is worth 100 points. Comprehensive
Final exam is worth 200 points. Some of the LOWEST SCORES OF QUIZZES and HW assignments will be DROPPED.
The total score = 2 best Mid-Exams (200)+ max(one of the lowest mid-exam scores, 1/2 of the Final Exam score) (100)
+ Final Exam (200) + [In-class Quizzes and HW assignments (100) ] = 600.
Be aware: *** Lower total score of quizzes and HW assignments hurts your course grade. ***
Important Notes and Connections
- Do not miss too many quizzes and HW assignments. Lower total score of quizzes and HW assignments hurts your course grade.
- You are allowed to miss only one mid-exam due to the fact that one of the lowest mid-exam scores can be
replaced by the half of the Final Exam score.
- Math Help: you also can get help at
the CASA tutoring center .
- Syllabus Changes:
Please note that the instructor may need to make modifications to the course syllabus.
Notice of such changes will be announced as quickly as possible through your email account at CougarNet.UH.EDU.
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Schedule and homework problemss
**Lecture slides will be available on Canvas website.
**Homework assignments are posted on Canvas under lecture session.
**Lab quiz will be given almost every week, but not on the same day.
**The following course schedule is subject to change.
Week 1: Don't use calculators when working on listed problems since you are not allowed to use them to take exams.
Aug. 19: 11.1: 2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12,13,16,17,18,20,21,25,27,29,30.
Aug. 21: 11.1 (continued)
11.2: 1,3,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,16,19,20,21,22,23,24.
Aug. 23: 11.2: (continued)
Week 2: HW/Quiz 1 (11.1 & 11.2) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems since you are not allowed to use them to take exams.
Aug. 26: 11.3: 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,23,24,25,30.
Aug. 28: 11.4: 3,5,6,7,9,10,11,13,15,18,20,22,28.
Aug. 30: 11.4: (continued)
11.5: 1,2,3,4,6,9,13,15,21,25.
Week 3: HW/Quiz 2 (11.3 & 11.4) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems since you are not allowed to use them to take exams.
Sept. 2: Labor Day (no class)
Sept. 4: 11.5: (continued)
Sept. 6: 11.6: 1,3,6,7,8,11,12,17,22,26.
Review I for Exam I is available on Canvas.
Solutions of Review I is available at the "Canvas" under the lecture session on Sep. 20, 2024.
(i). a unit circle, (ii). a line segment, and (iii). a circular helix.
Week 4: HW/Quiz 3 (11.5 & 11.6) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Sept. 9: 12.1: 1,4,6,7,13,15,16,18,22,23,24,26.
Sept. 11: 12.2: 1,2,4,9,14,15.
Sept. 13: 12.3: 1,3,4,5,6,7,13,18,21,22.
Week 5: HW/Quiz 4 (12.1-12.3) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Sept. 16: 12.3 (continued)
Sept. 18: 12.4: 1,2,3,4,9.
12.5: 15,19,23,24.
Sept. 20: 13.1:1,2,3,4,6,13,14,15 (find domain only for all problems).
13.2: Identify the level curves of problems 2,4,6 and 9.
Identify the level surface of problems 10 and 11.
14,15.
Matlab codes: (1) An upper circular cone and its level curves,
(2) A circular paraboloid and its level curves.
(3) A saddle surface and its level curves.
(4) A smooth surface and its level curves.
(5) A surface has a discontinuity at the point (0,0) and its level curves.
(6) Another surface has a discontinuity at the point (0,0) and its level curves..
Week 6: HW 5 (12.4, 12.5) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Sept. 23: 13.3: 1,2,3,10,11,13,14,16,18,19a,19b,19c,20a,20b,20c,21,23,24,26.
Sept. 25: Discuss Review problems at your Lab. No lecture (see announcement posted on Canvas.)
Sept. 27: Friday, Mid-Exam I: 12 PM - 12:50 PM, SR1 116 (Bring your ID).
Mid-Exam I covers Ch. 11 and Ch. 12: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6,
12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5 (curvature only).
Week 7: HW/Quiz 6 (13.1,13.2,13.3) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Sept. 30: 13.4: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,12,16,20,23,30,31.
Oct. 2: 14.1: 1,4,6,9,10,14,16,23(a) 23(b).
Oct. 4: 14.2: 1,2,6,9,11,16,17,18.
Review for Exam II is available on Canvas .
Week 8: HW/Quiz 7 (13.4, 14.1) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Oct. 7: 14.3: 3,6,7,8,9,11,15,18,20.
Oct. 9: 14.4: 1,4,7,8,10,11.
Oct. 11: 14.5: 3,4,5,6,9,15,18.
Solutions of Review II will be available at the "Canvas" under the lecture session after 8AM on Oct. 18, 2024.
Week 9: HW/Quiz 8 (14.2-14.4) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Oct. 14: 14.6: 1,2,3,7,10,12,13.
Oct. 16: 14.7: None.
Oct. 18: 15.2: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,16,18,19,22.
Week 10: HW 9 (14.5,14.6) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Oct. 21: 15.2 (continued)
Oct. 23: Problem discussion
Oct. 25: Friday, Mid-Exam II: 12 PM - 12:50 PM, SR1 116 (Bring your ID).
Mid-Exam II covers 13.1-13.4, 14.1-14.6
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Week 11: HW/Quiz 10 (15.2) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Oct. 28: 15.2 (continued)
Oct. 30: 15.3: 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,12,18,19,20.
Nov. 1: 15.5: None.
15.6: 1,2,3,4,6,7,11,12,13,14,15,20,23.
Week 12: HW/Quiz 11 (15.3, 15.6) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Nov. 4: 15.6 (continued)
Nov. 6: 15.7: 1,3,5,6,7,14,15.
Nov. 8: 16.1: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.
Solutions of Review IIIwill be available at the "Canvas" under the lecture session at noon on 11/15/2024.
Week 13: HW/Quiz 12 (15.7, 16.1) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Nov. 11: 14.9: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,17.
Nov. 13: 16.2: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.
Nov. 15: 16.3: 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10,12,13,14,15.
Week 14: HW/Quiz 13 (14.9, 16.2, 16.3) Don't use calculators when working on listed problems.
Nov. 18: 16.4: 2,5,17.
16.5: 1,4,12,13.
Nov. 20: 16.6:1,4,6.
16.7:1,4,9,10.
16.8: none.
Nov. 22: Problem discussion.
Week 15:
Nov. 25: Monday, Mid-Exam III: 12 PM - 12:50 PM, SR1 116 (Bring your ID).
Mid-Exam III covers 14.9, 15.1-3, 15.5-7, 16.1-3.
Nov. 27-29: Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Week 16: Final week
Week 17:
Dec. 9: Monday, Final Exam: 12 PM - 1:50 PM, SR1 116 (Bring your ID)
Final Exam covers all sections covered by three exams this semester.
(Don't leave UH before the scheduled final exam.)