Math 2433     Honors Calculus III         Spring 2003

Important dates and facts

Course Handouts and Links

• Information Sheet
• There's a good Famous Curves Index on the MacTutor server at St. Andrews
• Good geometric pages on conic sections and some more good pages here.
• Millennium Prize Problems We just learned what the 3-sphere is,
  so check out the Poincare Conjecture!

Messages/Assignments

[12]. Due Thursday, May 1

• Section 12.8: 7, 12, 16
• Section 12.9: 4, 6, 16, 22, 24
• Section 12.10: 22, 24, 26, 28, 38, 44

[11]. Due Thursday, April 24

• Section 12.6: 6, 8,22, 24, 34
• Section 12.7: 26, 28, 30, 34

[10]. Due Thursday, April 17

• Section 12.3: 9, 10, 22, 25
• Section 12.4: 6, 10, 12, 26, 29, 30, 31
• Section 12.5: 4, 10, 16, 24

[9]. Due Thursday, April 10

• Section 12.2: 20*, 34*, 36*, 65, 68*

[8]. Due Thursday, March 27

• Section 14.3: 12*, 16*, 24*, 26, 46*.
• Section 14.4: Just look at misc questions from this section.
  Extra Hwk III gives you lots to think about.

There is a quiz (Quiz II -- really!) on Tuesday March 25, covering lines and planes in 3-dimensions
(so you may also need to know about dot and cross products).

Extra Homework III takes you through a derivation of
Newton's inverse square law of gravitation from Kepler's Laws.
This is due on the second Tuesday after spring break.

[7]. Due Thursday, March 13

• Section 14.2: 6, 10, 19, 24

[6]. Due Tuesday, March 11

• Section 13.7: 14, 20, 39, 40, 54
• Section 14.1: 7 through 12 (match the 6 graphs)

Due Thursday March 6. Extra Homework II asks you to do all three parts of the discovery project on
page 845 of the text, and to prove a generalized version of the law of cosines.

[5]. Due Thursday, Feb 27

• Section 13.4: 10, 26, 32, 34*
• Section 13.5: 30*, 34, 48*, 52*, 54, 60, 62*

There will be an additional office hour on Wednesday Feb 12
(this replaces the Thursday office hour). It is at from 2pm until 3pm.

Midterm I is on Thursday Feb 13 in class.
It covers all of chapter 11 (except 11.6) and 13.1--13.3.

[4]. Due Thursday, Feb 13

• Section 13.1: 18*, 20
• Section 13.2: 27, 28*, 29, 30
• Section 13.3: 11, 12, 18*, 28*, 40*

[3]. Due Thursday, Feb 6.

• Section 11.5: 6*, 8, 22*, 25*, 40, 46*
• Section 11.7: 1, 2, 3, 10*

[2]. Due Thursday, Jan 30.

• Section 11.3: 8, 10*, 25, 30*
• Section 11.4: 38*, 46*, 56, 60*, 68

[1]. Due Thursday, Jan 23.

• Section 11.1: 12*, 22*, 35*, 37
• Section 11.2: 8, 20*, 28*, 35, 36*

Extra Homework I asks you to prove that the cycloid is a tautochrone (isochrone).
Hints/sketch will be given out in class on Tuesday Jan 21.
The project is due in class on Thursday Feb. 04.
People are encouraged to work together on these projects. Talk to some of last semesters people.