SCHEDULE
MTH 255H — Winter 2014


This is a rough schedule showing which topic we will cover when. All dates are subject to change.
The topic links refer to my online book.

  Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Week 1
(Jan)
6
No class
7  
 
8
No class
9  
 
10
No class
Week 2
(Jan)
Which Way is North? 13  
Vectors, Dot Product,
Law of Cosines
14  
 
 
15
Differentials I,
Differentials II
16  
 
 
Line Elements 17
Coordinates,
Vector Differentials (more)
Week 3
(Jan)
20
MLK Day
 
21  
 
 
The Puddle 22
Gradient, Properties,
Directional Derivatives
23  
 
 
The Hill 24
Gradient
 
Week 4
(Jan)
Chocolate 27
Line Integrals I
 
28  
 
 
The Valley 29
Vector Fields
Line Integrals II
30  
 
 
31
Use What You Know
 
Week 5
(Feb)
The Wire 3
Path Independence
4  
 
Visualization 5
Conservative Vector Fields
6  
 
7  
No class
Week 6
(Feb)
10  
Finding Potentials
11  
 
12
Review
13  
 
14
Midterm
Week 7
(Feb)
17
Cross Product,
Surfaces
18  
 
 
The Cone 19
Surface Elements
 
20  
 
 
21
Flux
 
Week 8
(Feb)
24
Surface Integrals I,
Surface Integrals II
25  
 
 
The Fishing Net 26
Divergence
 
27
 
 
28
Divergence Thm
 
Week 9
(Feb)
Curl and Divergence 3
Curl
Other Coords
4  
 
 
5
Curl and Divergence
 
6  
 
 
Stokes' Theorem 7  
Stokes' Theorem
 
Week 10
(Mar)
10
Product Rules
Second Derivatives
11  
 
 
Change of Variables 12  
Change of Variables
 
13  
 
 
14  
Review
 
Finals
(Mar)
17  
 
 
18  
 
 
19  
Final
(12–1:20 PM)
20  
 
 
21