Math 53 Fall 2019, Sections 205

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.

Important dates and deadlines

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).

Helpful links and other notes

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):

Section handouts

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