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Honors Engineering Calculus: Home Fall 2001
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General Administrative Information

Web:
http://www.esam.nwu.edu/riecke/Vorlesung/252-2/2002//home.html

TAs:
Elaine Spiller, Scott Kukuck

TA hours:
Available online

Textbook:
Calculus: An Introduction to Applied Mathematics, by H. P. Greenspan and D. J. Benney. Available at Norris.

Class hours and location:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 10:00 a.m., L361

Recitation hours and location:
Thursday, 10:00 a.m., L361 and L160

Grading:
40% midterm, 30% final, 30% homework.


Syllabus:

Week 1: Review of Differential and Integral Calculus, Chapters 1-4

  1. Review of limits and differentiation
  2. Applications of differentiation
  3. Review of integration
  4. Applications of integration
  5. Numerical integration techniques

Weeks 2-4: Vectors, Chapter 5

  1. Introduction to vectors
  2. Differentiation of vector functions
  3. Scalar and vector products
  4. Higher order products
  5. Curvilinear motion
  6. Planetary motion

Weeks 5-10: Partial Differentiation, Chapter 6

  1. Partial derivatives
  2. Differentials
  3. Directional derivatives and the gradient
  4. The chain rule
  5. Functions with parameters
  6. Implicit functions
  7. Maxima and minima problems