Time:                     M W F, Section 1, 8:30-9:20AM, at 237 Lockett Hall; Section 4, 12:30-1:20PM, at 239 Lockett Hall

Instructor:           Hongchao Zhang
                               Lockett, Room 220 / TEL: 225-578-1982
                               email: hozhang@math.lsu.edu
                               web page : http://www.math.lsu.edu/~hozhang/Math2057

Office Hours:     Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9:30AM – 11:00AM, or by Appointment, or Anytime you stop by and I am in office

Text:                     Calculus, Early Transcendentals 7th Edition by James Stewart, ISBN 978-0-538-49790-9,
                               Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning

Prerequisites:     MATH 1552 (Calculus II), being able to take limits, continuity, take derivatives of complicated functions,
                               using derivatives, calculate the definite integral, integration techiniques and applications of integration

Contents:             We will cover most the materials in Chapter 14 through Chapter 16. We will discuss the limits, continuity,
                               partial derivatives and directional derivatives of functions with several variables; understand of linear
                               approximation and optimization of multi-variable functions using Lagrange Multipliers; be able to evaluate
                               iterated integrals and use multiple integrals to calculate areas, volumns, etc.; introduce the line integrals,
                               path-independence, potential functions and surface integrals and understand the Green's Theorem, the
                               Divergence Theorem and Stoke's Theorem. For more details: http://www.math.lsu.edu/courses/2057.

Homework:      Homework will be assigned and posted on the web page after each lecture. Homework will not be collected.
                           However, you may see very similar or the same problems on quizzes. So, reading class material and
                           completion of the assignments on time is VERY ESSENTIAL to your success in this course and
                           is one of the BEST ways to understand the class materials and prepare for quizzes and exams.

Quizzes:           There will be weekly quizzes (each worth 10 points) at the beginning of every Friday's class, of which one
                           lowest quiz scores will be dropped. There will NOT be any make-up quizzes. Quiz problems are very similar or
                           will be the same to the homework problems. Quiz scores will be accumulated to count 20% of your final grades.

Tests:                There will be two mid-term in-class exams, each worth 20% of your final grades. The exams will tentatively take
                           on September 26th and October 31st. The final comprehensive exam will count 40% of your final grade.

Grade:                Quizzes: 20%
                             Midterm Exams: 40% (20% for each midterm exam)
                             Final Exam: 40%
                             Course grades may be curved, but in any case, 90-100% is assured an A, 80-89% a B, and so on.

Important Note: Except for unforeseen reasons, students must obtain advance approval from the instructor for
                             missing any assignments including Quizzes and Exams, etc. Under this case, any excuse
                             for missing an assignment must be properly documented and any missed assignment must be
                             made up within three days.

Calculator Policy: The use of calculators without programmable memory is allowed for the quizzes.
                             However, I recommend not using calculators and all the problems could be done by hand calculations.

Cell phone Policy: The use of cell phones during class is prohibited. All cell phones must be turned off prior to class.