James Cook's Multivariable Calculus Archive
James Cook's Multivariable Calculus Archive

I: Miscelaneous:
  • Additional Lagrange Multiplier Examples

  • III. Test reviews and solutions from other semesters:
    Our course will not be identical, but these give you some idea of the basic sort of questions I have asked on tests before. I'd like to think this semester will be more interesting. Here are a the tests from Spring 2009's 3hr calculus. Here are some tests from a 4-hr calculus III I taught in 2006. We do not cover certain topics that appear on these tests.

    IV. Worked Problems:
    You have a variety of resources below. I would recommend browsing through them from time to time. You should be able to find an example of most any standard question. To start, the following are the "Homework Projects" from Fall 2008 math 231.
    The solutions posted below were originally given as homework problems for the Fall 2008.

    What follows are my solutions to some of your homework. I have tried to select at least one of each type of problem you will encounter. These serve as additional examples to those given in lecture. You are of course free to ask me for further clarification if you find my solution to terse. Some of these problems are more advanced than the typical level of this course, I include those problems for your edification and my amusement (wait, maybe switch that). I have tried to include little remarks to alert you to the fact my solution is optional (meaning I don't expect you to do it the way I do it, for example anywhere I use the repeated index notation or "Einstein" notation you may ignore it if you like, but you should think about how to do it in your own brute-force way). Generally speaking you may choose the notation that you find most natural, sometimes I will use a notation that all of you find obtuse and obscure. I have my reasons, perhaps some of you will appreciate them. Those things which are "optional" are likely to show up as bonus questions on test ( just a point or two)

    note: problem numbers probably do not match your text. These solutions were written originally for Calculus and Concepts which is a different, somehow, version of your text. You can look at the other version during office hours if you so desire. Additionally, I should mention that these solutions may in places use notation which I am avoiding in lecture. The main distinction is that I have made an effort to adorn every vector with the vector symbol. Strictly speaking this is just notation so leaving the vector off is no big deal so long as you say somewhere "HEY THIS IS A VECTOR". Of course, students are not always so careful and I will admit that my omission of the vector symbol has likely confused a few students. Some professors are not as open minded as I am on this point. For example, my Junior-level Mechanics professor started his whole class with an proclaimation that failure to write the vector over vectors would be graded as incorrect. Strict adherence to the vector notation can in principle help avoid making silly mistakes like dividing by a vector (almost never makes sense).


    V. My 2006 Version of Course Notes for Calculus III:
  • WARNING: these notes sometimes refer to the homework solution. Those numbers refer to problems from James Stewart's Calculus and Concepts. That text is nearly identical to your text, but the section numbers are different. If you are confused about which version is being referenced don't hestitate to stop by office hours or email me about it, I have both versions in my office.




  • VII. Further Practice Homework List:

    These homeworks are not collected in the current course. You have been assigned "Problem Sets" which better reflect my vision for multivariable calculus. Stewart is a good starting point and this is why I leave these here to supplement my notes/lecture since additional examples usually help interested students.

    Notice I have indicated which portion of my lecture notes as well as which part of the textbook is most relevant to the assigment. Beware, sometimes the homework is not exactly matched up with the lecture notes link, sometimes you need to look at the next few pages. The pdf's of my lecture notes are chopped up section by section, usually you can find what you need somewhere in that chapter. If you are lost send me an email, I'll try to point you in the right direction.

    Section # My Notes . Assignment Description / Hints
    Sec. 13.1 236-239 . 11, 13, 15, 20, 23-31(odds) 3d-Cartesian Coordinates
    Sec. 13.2 240-250 . 7, 13, 17, 21, 24, 31, 35, 37, 39, 40, 42 vectors
    Sec. 13.3 240-250 . 3, 8, 12, 13, 16, 20, 24, 23, 36, 40, 45, 50, 54, 56, 60 dot product
    Sec. 13.4 240-250 . 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 20, 23, 25, 33, 39, 43, 45, 49 cross product
    Sec. 13.5 251-256 . 3, 6, 9 (no symmetric equation required for 6 or 9), 14, 16, 17, 18, 25, 26, 28, 32, 40, 55 lines and planes
    Sec. 13.6 257-262 . 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 34, 36 functions of several variables
    Sec. 14.1 263-268 . 8, 14(use Mathematica to graph curve, can pencil in direction if you wish), 25, 36, 38, 41, 42, 43 (use definition 1) vector-valued functions
    Sec. 14.2 263-268 . 3, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 27(use Mathematica), 28(use Mathematica), 33, 34, 43, 46, 49 calculus of vector-valued functions
    Sec. 14.3 269-279 . 1, 13, 43(you may use Mathematica to help calculate this if you wish) arclength and moving TNB-frame
    Sec. 14.4 280-283 . 9, 15, 19, 21, 35, motion in space
    Sec. 15.1 . . 21-26 graph with Mathematica, 36, 39, 43, 62, 64 graphing, functions of several variables
    Sec. 15.2 290-291 . 5, 7, 9 limits and continuity
    Sec. 15.3 292-295 . 16, 22, 32, 36, 37, 40, 43, 50, 51, 61, 70a-b, 76 basic partial derivatives
    Sec. 15.5 296-299 . 1, 2, 7, 14, 22, 25, 39, 40, 45, 53 chain rule for several variables
    Sec. 15.4 311-313, 317-319 . 1, 3, 11, 17, 29, 30, 42(we define the tangent plane at P to be the union of all tangent vectors at P) tangent plane and linearization
    Sec. 15.6 311-319 . 7, 12, 15, 20, 25, 28, 41a, 63 directional derivative
    Sec. 15.7 320-324 . 8, 11, 18, 29, 41, 55*** extrema in functions of several variables
    Sec. 16.2 330-342 . 6, 12, 13, 16, 22, 31 basic double integrals
    Sec. 16.3 330-342 . 8, 13, 15, 16, 22, 46 double integrals over general regions
    Sec. 16.6 339-343 . 3, 8, 12, 13, 14, 39 triple integrals
    Sec. 16.9 343-359 . 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 13 the Jacobian
    Sec. 16.4 343-359 . 2, 9, 10, 16, 23, 25, 29, 36*** double integrals in polar coordinates
    Sec. 16.7 343-359 . 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 23a, 28 triple integrals in cylindrical coordinates
    Sec. 16.8 343-359 . 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 20, 21, 22, 27, 30, 40 triple integrals in spherical coordinates
    Sec. 17.1 360-365 . 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 (use Mathematica to plot vector fields in 2,4,6,8,10), 21, 23, 35** vector fields
    Sec. 17.5 366-368, 369-372, 373-374 . 1, 2, 5, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 26, 27, 29, 32(use 31 and 30's results if helpful), 37, 38, 33**, 34**, 39*** curl and divergence
    Sec. 17.2 385-394 . 1, 3, 4, 18, 20, 21, 32(use Mathematica), 45, 48 line integrals
    Sec. 17.3 395-401, 400-401 . 12, 15, 20, 21, 26, 30, 32, 33**, 34** FTC for line integrals, conservative forces
    Sec. 17.6 402-406 . 2, 5, 8, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 37, 43, 46, 55, 56, 57 parametrized surfaces and surface area
    Sec. 17.7 402-406 . 7, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29, 44, 47 surface integrals
    Sec. 17.4 412-419 . 1, 5, 8, 29** Greene's Theorem
    Sec. 17.8 412-419 . 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 16, 19*,20*** Stoke's Theorem
    Sec. 17.9 421-423 . 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 25*, 26*, 27*, 28*, 29*, 30** Divergence Theorem

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