The required text for this course is Chapters 12-16 of the
6th edition of Stewart's Calculus: Early Transcendentals
together with access to
WebAssign for homwork.
The chapters we need from the Stewart text are available from the University Book Store as a custom text, Multivariable Calculus. If you have the full 6th edition of the "early transcendentals" book, that will also work. (You need either the custom text or the full book, not both!)
The 6th edition of the "regular" (not "early trancendentals") book will work, except that the chapter and page numbers are different: you'll have to add one to the chapter number I say to get the chapter number in your book. So for instance, multiple integrals are in Chapter 15 in the "early transcendentals" book, but chapter 16 in the "regular" book.
If you have a different edition, for instance the 5th or 7th edition, the information in the book is probably mostly the same, but you will need to compare periodically to the official text. I believe the 5th edition is different from the 6th in the middle of Chapter 16 (and has different problems, but you'll get the homework from WebAssign anyway). I haven't looked at the 7th edition to see if there are significant changes (besides changing the problems).
There is a two week "grace period" at the start of the quarter when you can use WebAssign for free. After that you will have to have an access code.
If you used WebAssign for a calculus course from the 6th edition of the Stewart calculus book (for instance, for Math 124, 125, or 126 at UW), then your access code should still work for our class. If you don't already have an access code,
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