General Information

Instructor: Shizhang Li (sl3744 at columbia dot edu)
Office Hours: By appointment
Lecture: Mon - Thu, 6:15 - 7:50 pm
Classroom: Math 417

TA: Wenhua Yu (wy2227 at columbia dot edu)
TA Office Hours: Thu, 10-12 am and 1-5 pm.
Textbook: James Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 8th edition.

Prerequisites: Calculus I or equivalent is required, Calculus II or equivalent is recommended.

Help Room: If you need help with your assignments or with the material of the course, you are encouraged to visit the help room, 406 Mathematics. At least one graduate student is always on duty in this room Monday through Friday during business hours. You may drop by whenever the help room is open. Please check this page for the help room schedule.

Lectures

The topics covered in the class include: Vectors and the Geometry of Space (Chapter 12), Vector Functions (Chapter 13), and Partial Derivatives (Chapter 14).

Schedule:

Week 1: Chapters 12.1 - 12.4
Week 2: Chapters 12.5 - 12.6, 13.1
Week 3: Chapters 13.2 - 13.4, 14.1
Week 4: Chapters 14.2 - 14.4
Week 5: Chapters 14.5 - 14.7
Week 6: Chapters 14.8

Homework

Instructions:

All HWs are due in class by 6:15pm. If you are unable to attend class on time, scan and send your HW by email to the TA.
All problems are from the textbook.
If your work is handwritten, please only use a pencil or a black/blue pen.
Please attach the cover page to your submitted hw (and staple the pages!).
Solutions are posted on courseworks (resources page) after the due date.

Problem Sets(now it's just an example of last year, I'll make my own problem sets):

Due date: July 11th Cover Page
Due date: July 18th Cover Page
Due date: July 25th Cover Page
Due date: August 1st Cover Page
Due date: August 8th Cover Page

Exams

On both exams you are allowed to have one two-sided notes sheet.

Midterm: covers material from the first three weeks.
Date: Thu. July 21st, in class

Final: covers all the material with emphasis on the 2nd half of the course.
Date: Thu. August 11th, in class

Grading

Homework = 30%, Midterm = 30%, Final = 40%.
You may "challenge" any grade you receive. However, you must contact the TA within three days of the grade release date. We'll scan some answer sheets randomly so don't do anything stupid(you know...)
Contact the instructor if you are unable to reolve the issue with the TA.