MATH 22
CALCULUS OF SEVERAL VARIABLES
Summer Session I, 2002



Updated detailed lecture schedule

Week 1
  • Visualization of geometric notions: points, lines, planes,
    surfaces, regions.
  • Distance formula and the method of completing the square.
  • Vectors: representation, magnitude, direction, properties.
  • Dot and cross products: properties.
  • Dot and cross products (review).
  • Equations of lines and planes.
  • Cylinders and quadric surfaces.
  • Cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
  • Lines and planes (review).
  • Cylinders and quadric surfaces (review).
  • Functions and curves: vector functions, domain, range.
  • Limit and continuity of a vector function.
Week 2
  • Limit and continuity of a vector function (review).
  • Derivatives and integrals of vector functions: tangential, normal
    and binormal vectors, arclength.
  • Functions of several variables(scalar functions): domain, range,
    graph.
  • Domain of functions of several variables (review)
  • Graph of functions of two variables, level curves and level surfaces (review).
  • Limit and continuity of functions of several variables.
  • Partial derivatives.
  • The chain rule.
  • Implicit differentiation and Implicit function theorem.
  • Higher derivatives, directional derivatives and the gradient vector.
  • Maximizing the directional derivative.
Week 3
  • Tangent planes.
  • Linear approximations.
  • Differentiability of a function of two variables.
  • Tangent plane to level surfaces, normal line.
  • Quick Review
  • Midterm
  • Holiday
Week 4
  • Tangent planes (review).
  • Maximum and minimum values (review).
  • Lagrange multipliers.
  • Double integrals over rectangles.
  • Double integrals over rectangles (review).
  • Iterated integrals, computations.
  • Double integrals over general regions.
  • Double integrals in polar coordinates.
  • Review of maximum and minimum values (homework problems)
  • Triple integrals over boxes.
  • Triple integrals over general solids.
  • On the total differential of a function.
Week 5
  • Triple integrals in cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
  • The Jacobian of a transformation.
  • Change of variables in multiple integrals.
  • Review
  • Evaluations
  • Final