Wednesday & Friday 8:30-9:30 a.m.
In fact, you can attend any recitation instructor's office hours. Here is the schedule
If you are not able to attend any of them, we can talk about your question over email.
Quizez and their solutions are posted at 2:30 p.m. every Tuesday. You can also find your session's simple score statistics here.
| Date | Contents to be Covered | Quiz | Section 021 | Section 022 | Some Fun | ||||||
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| Mean | Median | Highest | Lowest | Mean | Median | Highest | Lowest | ||||
| January 11 | Lecture: The Cross Product/ No quiz | ||||||||||
| January 18 | Dot Product and the Cross Product | Quiz 1 | 19.25 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 19.3 | 20 | 20 | 12 | tetrahedron, nb file |
| January 25 | Planes and Quadric Surfaces | Quiz 2 | 16.5 | 17 | 20 | 10 | 16.5 | 17 | 20 | 10 | How to draw a hyperbolic parabloid (See Page 2-5) |
| February 1 | Derivative, Curvature and Arc Length | Quiz 3 Solution | Snow day! Quiz done at home (optional). Note that Lession 10 is dropped from the syllabus and so is Homework 10! | perimeter of an ellipse | |||||||
| February 8 | Velocity, Speed and Acceleration; Graph of a Multivariate Function | Quiz 4 | 18.25 | 19 | 20 | 15 | 18.25 | 18 | 20 | 14 | position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop... |
| February 15 | Partial Derivative;Tangent Plane | Quiz 5 | 16.9 | 18 | 20 | 11 | 16 | 16.5 | 20 | 8 | an alternative resource (most comprehensive in the web format as of Spring 2011) | Exam I statistics | 60.797 | Std: 23.663 | 100 | 10 | 60.000 | Std: 26.186 | 100 | 20 | A 90-100,B 70-80, C 50-60, D 40, F 0-30, Total mean: 58.7 |
| February 22 | Implicit Differentiation; Directional Derivative | Quiz 6 | 19.3 | 20 | 20 | 12 | 18.2 | 20 | 20 | 12 | Implicit Function Theorem |
| March 3 | Local Extremum; Absolute Extremum | Quiz 7 | 14.5 | 14 | 19.5 | 9 | 14.8 | 15 | 20 | 10 | Robert Ghrist: Funny Little Calculus Text |
| March 8 | Lagrange Multiplier Method; Double Integral | Quiz 8 | 15.86 | 16 | 20 | 10 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 20 | 12 | |
| March 15 | Spring Break | ||||||||||
| March 22 | Double Integral in Polar Coordinates; Triple Integral | Quiz 9 | 16.5 | 17 | 20 | 10 | 16.15 | 17 | 20 | 9 | The official study guide for Exam II |
| March 29 | The recitation meeting today is cancelled; Exam II statistics | 59.189 | Std: 21.779 | 100 | 10 | 62.059 | Std: 19.814 | 100 | 20 | A 90-100,A/B 80, B 70, B/C 60, C 50, D 40, Total mean: 58.9 | |
| April 5 | Integrating a scalar function and a vector field over a smooth curve | Quiz 10 | 17.4 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 18.8 | 20 | 20 | 12 | MA261 done in another way: Prof. Arapura's Introduction to Differential Forms |
| April 12 | Fundamental Theorem of Line Integral; Green's Theorem | Quiz 11 | 16.2 | 16.5 | 20 | 10 | 16.7 | 16 | 20 | 12 | |
| April 19 | Curl and Divergence; Surface Area | Quiz 12 | 17 | 18.5 | 20 | 8 | 16.2 | 17 | 20 | 6 | |
| April 26 | Dead Weak. No quiz. | Official Review I, Review II and Review III. Good Luck! | |||||||||