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Gradients and Directional Derivatives
| Date | Activity | Notes |
| Fri 1/22/2016 | Intro; Review Families of Functions | 1.2,1.3,1.4, 1.5, 1.6 |
| Mon 1/25/2016 | Functions of Several Variables; Mathematica for 1-variable functions | 12.1, 12.2 |
| Wed 1/27/2016 | Mathematica: 3D Plots, Contour Plots, and Cross Sections | 12.2,12.3 |
| Fri 1/29/2016 | Functions of several variables continued | 12.4, 12.5 |
| Mon 2/1/2016 | Review: Derivatives, Multipliers | 2.2, 2.3, 3.1-3.6 |
| Wed 2/3/2016 | Partial Derivatives | 14.1, 14.2 |
| Fri 2/5/2016 | Partial Derivatives, Mathematica | 14.1, 14.2, Project 1 Due |
| Mon 2/8/2016 | Linear approximations | 14.3 |
| Wed 2/10/2016 | The Chain Rule | 3.4, 14.6 |
| Fri 2/12/2016 | Second order partial derivatives | 14.7 |
| Mon 2/15/2016 | EXAM 1 | |
| Wed 2/17/2016 | Taylor Polynomials | 10.1 |
| Fri 2/19/2016 | Taylor Polynomials in Two Variables | 14.7 |
| Mon 2/22/2016 | Extrema, Saddle Points, and Optimization | 15.1, 15.2 |
| Wed 2/24/2016 | Vectors, dot product | 13.1-3 |
| Fri 2/26/2016 | Directional derivatives and the gradient | 14.4 |
| Mon 2/29/2016 | The Gradient Search | |
| Wed 3/2/2016 | Lagrange Multipliers | 15.3 |
| Fri 3/4/2016 | Problem solving day | 15.3 |
| Mon 3/7/2016 | Review: derivatives, gradient descent, least squares fitting | |
| Wed 3/9/2016 | EXAM 2 | |
| Fri 3/11/2016 | Introduction to Definite Integrals | 5.1-5.2 |
| SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | NO CLASS |
| Mon 3/21/2016 | Interpretations of the Definite Integral | 5.1-5.3 |
| Wed 3/23/2016 | Fundamental Theorem of Calculus | 5.3, 6.2 |
| Fri 3/25/2016 | Algebraic antidifferentiation (substitution, integration by parts) | 7.1-7.2 |
| Mon 3/28/2016 | Practice | |
| Wed 3/30/2016 | Probability | 8.7, 8.8 |
| Fri 4/1/2016 | Probability | 8.7, 6.4 |
| Mon 4/4/2016 | Second Fundamental Theorem | 7.5 |
| Wed 4/6/2016 | Numerical integration, Error Estimates in Integration | |
| Fri 4/8/2016 | Double Integrals | 16.1 |
| Mon 4/11/2016 | Iterated Double Integrals over Rectangles | 16.2; thru p 877 |
| Wed 4/13/2016 | Capstone Day – Attend Capstone talks | NO CLASS, attend talks |
| Fri 4/15/2016 | Problem solving day | |
| Mon 4/18/2016 | EXAM 3 | |
| Wed 4/20/2016 | Differential Equations, the exponential equation | 11.1, 11.2 |
| Fri 4/22/2016 | Separable Equations, Mathematica | 11.3, 11.4 |
| Mon 4/25/2016 | The Logistic Model | 11.5 |
| Wed 4/27/2016 | Numerical solutions | 11.7 |
| Fri 4/29/2016 | Problem solving day | |
| Mon 5/2/2016 | Backward Glance | |
| Thur 5/5/2016 | Final Exam 4-6pm, Olin/Rice 350 |
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