General Info

• Syllabus: For the official course syllabus, go to www.math.psu.edu/yee/math231/231_fall07.html
• Section Policy: The policy for my section is prepared in PDF format; Click here to download it.
• Website: For section 002, 004, 006 we will use ANGEL.
• Classes: Tue, Thu 9:05am-9:55am (112 Osmond, Section 002)
  Tue, Thu 10:10am-11:00am (111 Tyson, Section 004)
  Tue, Thu 11:15am-12:05am (108 Tyson, Section 006)
• Text: Calculus, 5th Edition, by James Stewart, published by Thomson (Brooks/Cole).

Goals and Objectives

In this course you will learn basic vector operations, multi-variable vector valued functions and their derivatives. More specifically, the student will,

• efficiently perform scalar and vector product of 3-dimensional vectors;
• succinctly describe a geometric object by a vector equation and vice versa;
• correctly calculate the gradient of a function with several variables;
• accurately solve a maximum/minimum problem, using the method of Lagrange multipliers if necessary.