MATH2028 - Honours Advanced Calculus II - 2024/25

Announcement

• No class on September 2; no tutorial on September 4.
• Course Syllabus [Download file]
• Please be reminded that the Midterm Exam will take place on October 23, Wednesday 10:30-12:00 in the usual tutorial/lecture room (WHM 301). This is a closed-book exam covering all material up to the topic of Change of Variable (corresponding to Lecture Notes 1-3).

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General Information

Lecturer

• Zhongtao WU
  • Office: LSB 216
  • Tel: 3943-8578
  • Email:
• Wenbo LIAO (TA)
  • Office: LSB 232
  • Tel: 3943-5294
  • Email:
• Ke LIU (Grader)
  • Office: SC 333B
  • Email:

Time and Venue

• Lecture: Mo 10:30AM-12:15PM, Mong Man Wai Bldg 710; We 11:30AM-12:15PM, Wu Ho Man Yuen Bldg 301
• Tutorial: We 10:30AM-11:15AM, Wu Ho Man Yuen Bldg 301

Course Description

This is a continuation of MATH2018. The following topics will be discussed: multiple integrals in n-dimensions: areas and n-volumes, surface areas, volumes of submanifolds and hypersurfaces in n-space, change of variables; vector analysis: line integrals, surface integrals, integration on submanifolds, Green theorem, divergence theorem and Stokes theorem in n-dimensions.

References

• "Thomas' Calculus" by Hass, Weir, Bogacki, & Heil, Pearson
• "Calculus on Manifolds" by M. Spivak, CRC press

Lecture Notes

• Note 1 (Overview and Definition)
• Note 2 (Fubini, Polar coordinates, etc)
• Note 3 (Change of variables, Partition of unity)
• Note 4 (Line integral, Gradient Field, Green's Thm)

Tutorial Notes

• Tutorial Notes 25. Sep.
• Tutorial Notes 2. Oct.
• Tutorial Notes 9. Oct.
• Tutorial Notes 16. Oct.
• Tutorial Notes 30. Oct.

Assignments

• Problem Set 1, due Sep 20
• Problem Set 2, due Oct 4
• Problem Set 3, due Oct 18
• Problem Set 4, due Nov 1

Solutions

• Solution to Homework 1
• Solution to Homework 2
• Solution to Homework 3

Assessment Scheme

Homework Assignments		10%
Midterm (10:30-12:00, Oct. 23)		40%
Final Exam		50%

Useful Links

• MATH2020A

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Last updated: October 28, 2024 14:07:03