General Info

• Syllabus: For the official course syllabus, go to www.math.psu.edu/belmonte/math231syll_Spr08.html
• Section Policy: The policy for my section is prepared in PDF format; Click here to download it.
• Website: For section 001 we will use ANGEL.
• Classes: Tue, Thu 9:05am-9:55am (101 Osmond)
  
• Text: Calculus, 5th Edition, by James Stewart, published by Thomson (Brooks/Cole).

Goals and Objectives

In this course the student will learn basic vector operations, vectur-valued functions, real-valued multivariable functions, and directional 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.