Section 205 meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am in 748 Evans.
Office hours (tentative): Wednesday 11am-12pm in 869 Evans and Wednesday 7pm-8pm in the SLC. I will also occasionally monitor Piazza.
Quizzes will happen in section each Tuesday (true/false questions) and Thursday (longer quizzes simulating exam problems).
Midterm 1 will be Wednesday, October 2 from 8-10pm.
Midterm 2 will be Wednesday, November 13 from 7-9pm.
The final exam will be Wednesday, December 18 from 7-10pm (location TBD).
Student learning center drop-in tutoring in Cesar Chavez Atrium 10am-4pm Monday through Thursday starting the third week of class.
Some useful trigonometric identities.
Desmos, a nice online 3D graphing tool.
My webpage from Fall 2018 in Math 53 (note that it was with a different professor).
My webpage from Spring 2018 in Math 53 (note that it was with a different professor).
My webpage from this past summer in Math 53 (note that as a summer class, I was in charge of the entire course and not just leading discussion sections).
Various past Math 53 exams.
Even more past Math 53 exams and solutions.
Some study strategies I like using (your mileage may vary):
Thursday, August 29 -- Syllabus; basics of parametric curves | Problems | Selected solutions |
Tuesday, September 3 -- Calculus with parametric curves | Problems | Selected solutions |
Thursday, September 5 -- Polar coordinates, curves, and tangent lines | Problems | Selected solutions |
Tuesday, November 5 -- Triple integrals; triple integrals in cylindrical and spherical coordinates | Problems | Selected solutions |
Thursday, November 7 -- Triple integrals in cylindrical and spherical coordinates; change of variables | Problems | Selected solutions |