MAT 235Y Calculus II Section 301
Instructor: Stefan Dawydiak
Lecture times: Mondays 12:00–13:00 and Thursdays 12:00–14:00 Toronto time (GMT-4)
Office hours: Thursdays 15:00–16:00 Toronto time (GMT-4)
This is the homepage for our section. Due to COVID19, all lectures and the course office hours will be held online, via Zoom. As a precaution, the Zoom meeting number
and password are available on our section page on Quercus, and will be the same throughout the year.
No other information specific to our section will be posted on Quercus. All material and announcements specific to our section will be posted here, and not on Quercus.
For information relating to the course in general, such as the syllabus, see the main course page on Quercus.
Announcements:
- The first semester is now over! The recording of the makeup lecture will be available indefinitely. Thank you for your participation in the course so far!
- Course evaluations are now open. You can fill them out via the Course Evals tab in Quercus or via the link you should have received via email.
- As decided by a poll in lecture, we will have a make-up lecture Thursday December 10, 12:00--14:00 Toronto time. That will be the final lecture of the course.
- Monday, November 9 to Friday, November 13, is Fall Reading Week. We will not have lecture this week. Our next lecture is Monday, November 16.
- The term test is scheduled for Friday, November 6, 7:10pm--9:00pm Toronto time. It will cover 10.1--10.5, 12.1--12.6, and 13.1, 13.2, 13.4.
- Monday, October 12, is Thanksgiving, a holiday in Canada. The university will be closed and we will not have lecture.
- There is a volunteer notetaking position available for this course. You have received an email with information on how to apply.
- For more information about Recognized Study Groups (RSGs) and the Meet to Complete program , please follow the links.
- The deadline to register in all F and Y courses in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including ours, is tomorrow, Wednesday September 23.
- Following the feedback from the first lecture, I will try to have access to an HD camera starting at least for next Thursday.
Lecture summaries:
- Thursday September 10:
We covered sections 10.1 and 10.2 from the textbook. On Monday, we will cover section 10.5, Conic sections. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Monday September 14:
We covered section 10.5 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will cover section 10.3 and a bit of 10.4, Polar coordinates and using them to compute areas and lengths. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday September 17:
We covered section 10.3 and 10.4 from the textbook, and also parameterized an ellipse. On Monday, we will finish section 10.4. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Monday September 21:
We covered more of section 10.4 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will discuss computing arc lengths in polar coordinates further, and then move on to sections 12.1 and 12.2. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday September 24:
We covered finished sections 10.4 and 12.1 from the textbook, and started section 12.2. On Monday, we will finish section 12.2. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week. Due to a technical glitch, only the second hour of the lecture is recorded. From now on, I've configured Zoom so that this won't happen again.
- Monday September 28:
We finished section 12.2 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will move on to section 12.3 and 12.4, the dot product and cross product. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday October 1:
We covered sections 12.3 and 12.4 from the textbook. On Monday, we will finish 12.4 and move on to section 12.5, equations of lines and planes. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Monday October 5:
We covered more of section 12.4 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will move on to section 12.5, equations of lines and planes. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday October 8:
We covered section 12.5 from the textbook. Next Thursday, we will finish 12.5 and move on to section 12.6, cylinders and quadric surfaces. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday October 15:
We finished section 12.5 and started section 12.6 from the textbook. Next Thursday, we will finish 12.6 and move on to section 13.1, vector functions and space curves. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Monday October 19:
We finished section 12.6 and started section 13.1 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will finish section 13.1 and move on to section 13.2, derivatives and integrals of vector functions. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday October 22:
We finished most of up to section 13.4 from the textbook. Next Monday, we will discuss integrals of vector-valued functions and more about particle motion, finishing all of chapter 13. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Monday October 26:
We finished all but one example from 13.4 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will finish section 13.4 and move on to section 14.1, functions of several variables. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday October 29:
We finished sections 13.4 and 14.1 from the textbook and started section 14.2. Next Monday, we will finish section 14.2 and move on to section 14.3, partial derivatives. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Monday November 2:
We finished section 14.2 and started section 14.3 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will finish section 14.3 and have a review session in the second hour. On Monday, we will move on to section 14.4, Tangent planes and linear approximation. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday November 5:
We covered parts of 14.3 and 14.4 from the textbook and had one hour of review. Next Monday, we will finish sections 14.3 and 14.4. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Monday November 16:
We covered more of 14.3 and 14.4 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will finish section 14.3 and 14.4 and move on to section 14.5, the Chain Rule. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday November 19:
We finished sections 14.3 and 14.4 from the textbook and stared section 14.5. On Monday, we will continue with section 14.5. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available at here for one week.
- Monday November 23:
We covered more of 14.5 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will finish section 14.5 and 14.4 and move on to section 14.6, Directional Derivatives and the gradient. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday November 26:
We finished section 14.5 and covered most of 14.6 from the textbook. On Monday, we will finish section 14.6 and move on to section 14.7, Maximum and Minimum Values. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available at here for one week.
- Monday November 30:
We covered finished section 14.6 from the textbook and started section 14.7. On Thursday, we will finish section 14.7. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday December 3:
We started section 14.7 from the textbook. On Monday, we will finish section 14.7 and move on to section 14.8, Lagrange Multipliers. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available at here for one week.
- Monday December 7:
We finished section 14.7 from the textbook. On Thursday, we will start section 14.8, Lagrange Multipliers. The lecture notes will be available for one week at this link.. Note that there is a typo on pg. 73; for the open disk of points x of magnitude strictly less than one, "no boundary points" should read "no boundary points are in D." A recording of the lecture will be available here for one week.
- Thursday December 10:
We finished section 14.8, Lagrange Multipliers. The lecture notes will be available indefinitely at this link.. Likewise a recording of the lecture will be available at here indefinitely. This was the final lecture of this semester.