Math 203: Calculus III
Daily Schedule

MW 11-12:15, F 11-11:50

Date Assignment
January 30
  • Read our syllabus on ella and read sections 12.1 and 12.2 of the text. Please let me know if you have any questions about course structure.
  • Discussion problems for 2/2: 12.1: 6, 34, 12.2:1, 20. There are ella questions regarding these problems due Monday. Please see ella for further details.
February 2
  • Read section 12.3.
  • Discussion problems for 2/4: 12.3: 9, 11, 16. (See ella.)
February 4
  • Read section 12.4.
  • 15 minute quiz on calculus skills. You should be familiar with the chain rule, the product rule, the quotient rule, derivatives of exponential functions, logarithms, sine and cosine, and polynomials. You should also be familiar with finding antiderivatives using u-substitution and integration by parts. These are the skills from Calculus I and II that you need to be successful in this course. Here are some sample problems. I will hand the quizzes back on Friday. If your score indicates that you need to review some topics, please see me. You may take a make-up quiz after class on 2/13 and I will count the higher of the two scores.
  • Discussion problems for 2/6: 12.4: 4, 6, 30. (No ella work.)
February 6
  • Read section 12.5.
  • Discussion problems for 2/9: 12.5: 3, 17, 29. (See ella.)
  • Homework 1 due. 12.1: 22, 24, 28, 32, 12.2: 2, 22, 24.
February 9
  • Read 13.1-13.2.
  • Discussion problems for 2/11: 13.1:1, 3, 5, 13.2: 15. (See ella.)
February 11
  • Read 13.3.
  • Quiz 2: sections 12.1-12.5.
  • Discussion problems for 2/13: 13.3: 13, 29, 51.
February 13
  • HW 2 due. 12.3: 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 12.4: 10, 14, 26, 12.5: 28, 34.
February 16
  • Read section 13.4.
  • Make sure that you could do problems 1-7 in section 13.4. Do problems 13 and 16 for our discussion on 2/18. (See ella.)
February 18
  • Read sections 14.1 and 14.2.
  • Quiz on sections 13.1-13.2.
  • Make sure that you could do problems 3-35 in section 14.2.
  • Discussion problems for 2/20: 14.1: 6, 8.
February 20
  • HW 3 due. 13.1: 2, 6, 8, 12, 16, 30, 44 (a), 13.2: 10, 16, 26, 13.3: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 50.
  • Read section 14.3.
  • Discussion problems for 2/23: 14.3: 18, 32. (See ella.)
February 23
  • Read section 14.4.
  • Discussion problems for 2/25: 14.4: 5, 15, 25, 30, 32, 34, 36, 42. (See ella.)
February 25
  • Read section 14.5.
  • Quiz on sections 13.4-14.3.
  • Discussion problems for 2/27: 14.5: 9, 13, 19, 25.
February 27
  • HW 4 due. 13.4: 14, 22, 26, 28, 14.1: 18, 20, 26, 14.2: 36, 38, 40, 14.3: 4, 20, 22.
  • Study for Exam I next week.
March 2
  • Read section 14.6.
  • The take-home portion of the exam will be given out today. You are on your honor not to discuss the exams with anyone with me. You may study for the exam with others and discuss old quizzes, old homeworks, class notes, and the sections of the course text that we have covered. Updated 3/2: The exam is due in class on Friday at 11am. (You have a grace period until 1pm Friday to hand it in.)
March 2
  • We'll review in class today. See the resources link on ella for a list of review topics.
March 6
  • The in-class portion of Exam I will be given in Clapp 402. You will have from 11 until 12:15 for the exam.
  • Exam I covers the following sections: 12.1-12.5, 13.1-13.4, 14.1-14.4. No notes, books, or computational aids are allowed.
  • Discussion problems for 3/9: 14.6: 32, 34. (See ella.)
March 9
  • Read section 14.7.
  • Discussion problems for 3/11: 14.7: 13, 19, 45. (See ella.)
March 11
  • Read sections 15.1-15.2.
  • Quiz on sections 14.5-14.6.
  • More TBA.
March 13
  • HW 5 due. 14.4: 70, 72, 76, 80, 14.5: 42, 58, 60, 14.6: 20, 30.
March 23
  • Read sections 15.1 and 15.2.
  • Discussion problems for 3/25: 15.1: 7, 15.2: 15. (See ella.)
March 25
  • Read section 15.3.
  • Quiz on section 14.7.
March 27
  • Read section 16.1.
  • HW 6 due. 14.7: 16, 26, 34, 44, 15.1: 12, 14, 18, 20, 34.
  • Discussion problems 16.1: 1,5. (See ella.)
March 31.
  • Read section 16.2.
  • Discussion problems 16.2: 17, 21. (See ella.)
April 1.
  • Read sections 16.3-16.4.
  • Quiz on sections 15.1-15.3.
April 3.
  • Skim section 16.5.
  • HW 7 due. 15.2: 16, 20, 24, 28, 15.3: 2, 6, 12, 18, 22, 30.
  • Discussion problems 16.3: 9, 13, 33. (See ella.)
April 6.
  • Read sections 17.1-2.
  • Discussion problems 17.1: 60, 63, 17.2: 28. (See ella.)
April 8.
  • Read sections 17.3.
  • Quiz on sections 16.1-16.4.
April 10.
  • Read section 17.5.
  • HW 8 due. 16.1: 28, 16.2: 22, 36, 46, 16.3: 18, 22, 16.4: 8, 10.
  • Plan to come to class on Monday with questions for our review. Look over the homework problems from chapters 14-16. Here are some additional problems to go over for Monday. 15.2: 17, 23, 15.3: 11, 19, 17.3: 20, 26. Your ella assignment for Monday is to let me know which ones you could do and which ones you have questions about.
April 13.
  • Review for Exam II.
April 15.
  • Read sections 18.1-2.
  • Discussion problems TBA.
April 17.
  • The in-class portion of Exam II will be given in Clapp 127. You will have from 11 until 12:15 for the exam.
  • Exam II covers the following sections: 14.5-14.7, 15.1-15.3, 16.1-16.4, 17.1-17.3. No notes, books, or computational aids are allowed.
April 20
  • Read section 18.3.
  • Discussion problems 18.3: 3-8, 35. (See ella.)
April 22
  • Read sections 19.1-19.2.
  • Quiz on sections 18.1 and 18.2.
April 24
  • HW 9 due. 18.1: 2, 22, 28, 18.2: 8, 14, 24, 30, 18.3 10, 14, 34, 36, 38.
  • Discussion problems 19.2: 3, 18.
April 27
  • Read 20.1.
  • Discussion problems 20.1: 12, 19, 41. (See ella.)
April 29
  • Read 20.2.
  • Quiz on sections 18.3, 19.1, 19.2.
May 1
  • Read 20.3
  • HW 10 due. 19.1: 40, 42, 44, 19.2: 2, 10, 14, 20.1: 6, 18, 20, 36.
  • Discussion problems 20.3:3, 11-16.
May 4
  • Read 20.4.
  • The final exam for this course is self-scheduled. It is cumulative, including all sections covered on the exams plus sections 18.1-18.3, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1-20.4.
May 6
  • Last day of class.
  • We will review for the final. Here are some practice problems for sections 20.2-20.4. 20.2: 7, 9, 11, 33, 20.3: 21, 27, 20.4: 19, 21.
  • You are allowed to bring one handwritten 3x5 notecard to the final exam. You must turn in the card along with any scratch work with your exam.