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Most course materials can be found at the right of the page. If you have a question, please contact me or your TA, directly or by e-mail.

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Announcements:

Announced 6/9/2010: The grades submitted and posted.
- The final exam Median was 73.5 out of 90 (81.7 percent). There were two perfect exams. The quartiles were 80 out of 90 (88.9 percent), 73.5 out of 90 (81.7 percent), and 66 out of 90 (73.3 percent).
- The final gradescale has been curved in a leanient way to give a median of 2.9. Almost everyone had there grade go up significantly from their posted midterm grade.
- I will not debate grades, so don't email me about your grade.
Announced 5/27/2010: Here are my review notes from class. So I broke them into three separate documents:
- Final Review Lecture Notes for Ch. 13, 14 and 15.
- Final Review Lecture Notes for Ch. 10 and 12.
- Final Review Lecture Notes for the Taylor Notes.
- Also note that there have been major updates and additions to my recent exam archive.
- And remember that any and all of the exams in the math department old 126 final archive are good to study.
Announced 5/23/2010: Here are the solutions for Exam 2. Grades and exam statistics will be given by the end of the week. Here are several other helpful postings:
- Here is a Long Example of Standard Taylor Series Questions. It contains 6 fundamental types of questions which thoroughly review what we have done. I spotted a typo (I am looking for the originals to fix it, but haven't found them yet). TYPO: The third, fourth and fifth derivatives have obvious errors in their computation. This does not change the process, but it does change the values of M and the errors at these steps. I encourage you to correctly compute the third, fourth, and fifth derivatives and find the resulting errors.
- Here is a detailed Overview of Taylor Notes 1, 2, and 3.
- Here is a detailed Overview of Taylor Notes 4 and 5.
Announced 5/19/2010: We are starting on start Taylor Polynomials and using the Taylor Notes, here is what you need:
- Taylor Notes: http://www.math.washington.edu/~m126/TaylorNotes.pdf.
- A detailed Overview of Taylor Notes 1, 2, and 3.
Announced 5/6/2010: Here is a list of helpful resources for the current homework and the next exam:
- A long list of individual old exam problems that you can practice based on topic for the next midterm (which is on Tuesday, May 18th).
- Here are the overheads I used for the review for Exam 2.
- I also created a recent exam archive which contains exams and problems from the last year.
- Once again here is the overview of 15.1 and 15.2.
- Here is an overview of 15.3 and 15.4. In particular, the review of 15.3 contains a little quiz you can take to see if you understand how to switch the order of integrations.
Announced 5/4/2010: Here is an overview of 15.1 and 15.2.
- Here are the lecture overheads for 2D Riemann Sum overhead and 3D Riemann Sum overhead.
Announced 4/31/2010: Here is an overview of 14.3 and an overview of 14.4 and 14.7. In addition, I have posted all the recent lecture overheads for you to look at and/or put with your lecture notes:
- Here are the Lecture Overheads from 14.1, Lecture Overheads from 14.3, Lecture Overheads from 14.4, and Lecture Overheads from 14.7 (several of these pictures I did not use, but you may find interesting).
Announced 4/26/2010: Here is an overview of 13.3, 13.4, and 14.1 (you can ignore the comments at the end about level surfaces for functions of three variables if you wish, there is no assigned homework problem of this type any more).
- Also, here are the solutions for Exam 1.
Announced 4/14/2010: I have posted a recent exam archive at the right of this page. These are exams from the last year (since the ordering of material was changed), so they mostly match up with the coverage of our first exam. Please use this archive and your homework for studying. You are welcome to look at the general 126 course page for more exams to study, but you will need to look at both exam 1 and exam 2 from that page since the material coverage used to be different (2008 and before).
- Here is a overview of 10.2, 10.3, and 13.2. You are not required to know the formulas for Surface Area, so you can ignore these in the posted review. Also, note a small correction, the "Applied Project about Kepler's laws" that is referred to on the second page of this review can be found on pages 848 and 849 of the book (not 880 and 881). With this review material and the previous, I have now posted reviews for all the material up to Exam 1.
Announced 4/10/2010: A few more documents for your perusal:
- A basic introduction to polar coordinates: We will start discussing polar coordinates on Wednesday (10.3) and you will do a worksheet on polar coordinates on Thursday. You might want to read this documents before then.
- Here is some big sized polar coordinate graph paper which you can use for your polar graphing if you wish (I suggest you print a few copies of this and bring them to Thursday's quiz section). Also here is polar graph paper that is smaller in size (two per page).
- As promised here are the Lecture Overheads from 12-6 and the Lecture Overheads from 13.1.
Announced 4/7/2010: Here are a few more postings and extra examples to help you along the way:
- Overview of basic facts from 12.5, 12.6, 10.1, and 13.1 (Typo correction: The page number for the basic quadric surfaces is page 808, not 836. This is incorrectly listed on second page of this review.)
- Two more examples with lines and planes. Specifically, the two examples show (1) how to find the intersection of two planes and (2) how to find a plane through a given line and another point. This was written by Dr. Matt Conroy (Thanks Matt!).
- An old worksheet that discusses ellipses and hyperbolas and an old worksheet about hyperbolas and 3D graphs. Try working through these if you are unfamiliar (or rusty) with the equations for hyperbolas and ellipses (or if want to know more about them). These were written by Prof. Don Marshall.
Announced 3/31/2010: Here are several review postings that I hope you find useful:
- Overview of basic facts from 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, and 12.4
- A review of basic calculus 1 facts.
- A review of Calculus 2: Foundations of Integration and Volumes and Calculus 2: Integration Techniques.
Announced 3/20/2010: Welcome to Math 126. This webpage contains the course syllabus, the homework schedule, a course calendar and links to Math 126 material. Throughout the quarter I will also be posting review sheets and announcements. Please check back regularly. For now, you should get the required texts which include:
- Multivariable Calculus, by James Stewart (this is a custom text for UW -- you may also use Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 6th Edition, by Stewart)
- Taylor Notes (available to print off from my website, or directly at http://www.math.washington.edu/~m126/TaylorNotes.pdf.)

Essential Resources:

Course Syllabus (pdf)

Homework Schedule

Course Calendar

Grades

Grading Scale

Supplemental Review Material

12.1-12.4 Overview

12.5-6, 10.1, 13.1 Overview

10.2, 10.3, and 13.2 Overview
Ignore surface area

13.3, 13.4, and 14.1 Overview

14.3 Overview

14.4 and 14.7 Overview

15.1 and 15.2 Overview

15.3 and 15.4 Overview

TN 1,2,3 Overview

TN 4,5 Overview

Final Review Lecture Notes for Ch. 13, 14 and 15

Final Review Lecture Notes for Ch. 10 and 12

Final Review Lecture Notes for the Taylor Notes

Old Exams and Course Material:

The archive below contains exams from the last year which cover the same material that our first exam covers:

Recent Exam Archive

WARNING!!! The ordering and coverage of material has changed in the last two years. So the older exams in the general exam archive below may contain material that has not been covered yet in class. I will discuss this as the exams approach.
Math 126 materials website (Contains Old Exams and Course Material)

A note to Math 126 Students (Please Read)

Dr. Loveless Math 125 Review and Reference Material Archive
This last link includes all the review material that I created and use when I teach Math 125. Several students have told me that they have found the various integral technique review sheets helpful. Please glance through them to see if there is anything you can use.

Miscellaneous/Challenge Material:

Sums of Powers (pdf)

Other UW resources:

Math Study Center

Center for Learning
and Undergraduate
Enrichment (CLUE)

Student Counseling Center

Information for Students
of International TAs

Math 126 E: Spring 2010

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