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Math 53 (Spring 2019)


This semester, I am leading two discussion sections for Prof. Zworski's Math 53, the course website for which can be found here.
As this course uses bCourses, time will tell whether I actually need to make use of this page.

Announcements

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Meeting Times

If you would like to meet but cannot make it to my listed office hours, please send me an email so we can arrange a time.
Section Meeting Times Location
23031 Lecture 002 TT 15:30-17:00 Dwinelle 155
23061 Discussion 214 MWF 15:00-16:00 Evans 5
25666 Discussion 218 MWF 14:00-15:00 Evans 87
My Office Hours Mon 16:00-17:00 & Thurs 13:00-14:00 Evans 834
Prof. Zworski's Office Hours Wed 14:00-16:00 Evans 801

Materials

Note that my solutions are a lot more detailed than yours needed to be!
Link Comments
Quiz 12 Solutions Solutions to the (very hard) quiz administered on 2019/05/01 on Stokes' theorem. The raw statistics for this quiz were as follows: across my two sections, 13 students picked Problem 1 (average score of 2.5), 27 students picked Problem 2 (average score of 2.9), 28 students picked Problem 3 (average score of 2.9), and 10 students picked Problem 4 (average score of 4.8).
Quiz 12 Quiz 12, problems only. The first three problems should be good practice/review. The last problem is just for fun because that's the kind of stuff I'm into.
Quiz 11 Solutions Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/04/24 on surface integrals. Problem 2 had slightly different numbers on the DIS 214 variant but the approach is the complete same.
Quiz 10 Solutions Mean score = 8.91/12, standard deviation = 2.33. Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/04/17 focusing on vector calculus operations.
Midterm 2 Difficult Topics This is NOT a comprehensive study guide for the midterm, but it gives very in-depth procedures for how to do some of the more challenging types of problems we've encountered in this segment of the course.
Quiz 8 Solutions Mean score = 9.56/12, standard deviation = 1.41. These are the statistics after curving (which was a flat +2/12 to all scores, capped at 12). Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/03/20 focusing on change of variables.
Quiz 7 Solutions Mean score = 8.73/12, standard deviation = 2.55. Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/03/13 on double integrals. I forgot to include pictures but it's just a triangle for the first problem, and a disk of radius 1 centered at (0,1) for the second.
Quiz 6 Solutions Mean score = 9.1/12, standard deviation = 2.1. Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/03/06 focusing primarily on optimization.
2019-02-29 (No notes) Optimization, part I
Quiz 5 Solutions Mean score = 8/12, standard deviation = 2.19. Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/02/27 covering the (multivariate) chain rule and its applications.
2019-02-22, 2019-02-25 (No notes) Chain rule
2019-02-20 (No notes) Midterm solutions
Notes from 2019-02-15 Vector derivation of the tangent plane equation (we'll see another derivation via gradient later, I hope). Review of miscellaneous topics.
Quiz 4 Solutions Mean score = 9.4/12, standard deviation = 2.18. Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/02/13 covering lines, planes, and vector-valued functions in R^3.
Notes from 2019-02-08 Parametric curves in R^3 (13.1, 13.2). Also: how to analyze a pair of lines (to figure out if they're parallel, skew, etc.) in R^3.
Quiz 3 Solutions Mean score = 8.4/12, standard deviation = 2.37. Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/02/06 covering sections 12.1-12.4 on vector arithmetic.
Notes from 2019-02-06 Lines and planes (12.5).
Quiz 2 Solutions Mean score = 10/12, standard deviation = 1.68. Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/01/30 covering parametric equations and polar coordinates.
Quiz 1 Solutions Solutions to the quiz administered on 2019/01/23 reviewing simple univariate calculus.

Grading

Homework is graded on a completion-based 0-2 point system.

Quizzes will be administered on Wednesdays and will be graded carefully for correctness. I will decide curving for quizzes on a quiz-by-quiz basis.