The topics will include partial derivatives, multiple integrals and the calculus of vector-valued functions. During a typical week there will be several hypermedia presentations, covering the text material. There will also be lab assignments each week in the form of lab handouts, whose completion will result in written lab reports on your findings. Most students leave the traditional calculus sequence with very little sense as to the role that calculus plays in the modern world. Calculus is useful in the social sciences, as well as the biological and physical sciences.
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It is hoped that you will leave this course with the perception that calculus is useful, exciting, and alive in the modern world. These ABC's of the course will be covered through the completion of projects, computer labs and regular homework problems. This is the last course in the calculus sequence. You will be asked to solve application problems, which can be just as difficult as the calculus concepts. You will have to think hard to understand the problems in this course and to be able to see how to apply what you are learning to new situations.