MATH-2080-WBP01

Welcome to the permanent home page for Section WBP01 of MATH-2080 (Calculus 3) at Southeast Community College in the 10-week Summer session of 2026. I am Toby Bartels, your instructor.

Course administration

Contact information

Feel free to send a message at any time, even nights and weekends (although I'll be slower to respond then).

Readings

The official textbook for the course is the 4th Edition of University Calculus: Early Transcendentals by Hass et al published by Addison Wesley (Pearson). You automatically get an online version of this textbook through Canvas. This comes with access to Pearson MyLab, integrated into Canvas, on which many of the assignments appear. There is also a packet of course notes (DjVu).

Try to read this introduction for the first day of class:

Unit 1: Vectors and curves

The different kinds of quantities that we'll use throughout this course.
  1. Review of vectors:
  2. Parametrized curves:
  3. Integrating parametrized curves:
  4. Matrices:
  5. Polar coordinates:
Discuss Unit 1 on Canvas. Try to mention at least one thing that you like or grasp well, and at least one thing that you don't like or understand yet. Feel free to reply to others' posts (but keep these replies positive and helpful). Quiz 1, covering the material in Problem Sets 1–5, is available on May 29 Friday and due on June 1 Monday.

Unit 2: Multivariate functions

Sometimes the value of a quantity depends on several independent quantities, not just one.
  1. Functions of several variables:
  2. Limits and continuity in several variables:
  3. Vector fields:
  4. Linear differential forms:
Discuss Unit 2 on Canvas. Try to mention at least one thing that you like or grasp well, and at least one thing that you don't like or understand yet. Feel free to reply to others' posts (but keep these replies positive and helpful). Quiz 2, covering the material in Problem Sets 6–9, is available on June 5 Friday and due on June 8 Monday.

Unit 3: Differentiation

Differentiating scalar fields.
  1. Differentials:
  2. Partial differentiation:
  3. Gradients:
  4. The Chain Rule:
Discuss Unit 3 on Canvas. Try to mention at least one thing that you like or grasp well, and at least one thing that you don't like or understand yet. Feel free to reply to others' posts (but keep these replies positive and helpful). Quiz 3, covering the material in Problem Sets 10–13, is available on June 12 Friday and due on June 15 Monday.

Unit 4: Applications of differentiation

The applications from one-variable Calculus have to be done differently now that we have multiple independent variables.
  1. Tangent flats and normal lines:
  2. Linear approximation:
  3. Local optimization:
  4. Constrained optimization:
Discuss Unit 4 on Canvas. Try to mention at least one thing that you like or grasp well, and at least one thing that you don't like or understand yet. Feel free to reply to others' posts (but keep these replies positive and helpful). Quiz 4, covering the material in Problem Sets 14–17, is available on June 19 Friday and due on June 22 Monday.

Unit 5: Integration on curves

Most of the dates below are wrong!
  1. Arclength:
  2. Integration on curves:
  3. Integrating vector fields:
  4. Integrating scalar fields:
  5. Conservative vector fields and exact differential forms:
Discuss Unit 5 on Canvas. Try to mention at least one thing that you like or grasp well, and at least one thing that you don't like or understand yet. Feel free to reply to others' posts (but keep these replies positive and helpful). Quiz 5, covering the material in Problem Sets 18–21, is available on June 26 Friday and due on June 29 Monday.

Unit 6: Multiple integration

  1. Double integrals:
  2. Setting up multiple integrals:
  3. Areas, volumes, and averages:
  4. The area element:
  5. Coordinate transformations:
  6. Integration in polar coordinates:
Discuss Unit 6 on Canvas. Try to mention at least one thing that you like or grasp well, and at least one thing that you don't like or understand yet. Feel free to reply to others' posts (but keep these replies positive and helpful). Quiz 6, covering the material in Problem Sets 22–26, is available on July 2 Thursday and due on July 6 Monday.

Unit 7: Integration on surfaces

  1. Parametrized surfaces:
  2. Integrals along surfaces:
  3. Flux across surfaces:
  4. Integrals on surfaces:
  5. Moments:
Discuss Unit 7 on Canvas. Try to mention at least one thing that you like or grasp well, and at least one thing that you don't like or understand yet. Feel free to reply to others' posts (but keep these replies positive and helpful). Quiz 7, covering the material in Problem Sets 27–30, is available on July 10 Friday and due on July 13 Monday.

Unit 8: Stokes theorems

  1. Exterior differentials:
  2. Green's Theorem:
  3. Stokes's Theorem:
  4. Gauss's Theorem:
Discuss Unit 8 on Canvas. Try to mention at least one thing that you like or grasp well, and at least one thing that you don't like or understand yet. Feel free to reply to others' posts (but keep these replies positive and helpful). Quiz 8, covering the material in Problem Sets 31–34, is available on July 17 Friday and due on July 20 Monday.

Quizzes

  1. Vectors and curves:
  2. Multivariate functions:
  3. Differentiation:
  4. Applications of differentiation:
  5. Integration on curves:
  6. Multiple integration:
  7. Integration on surfaces:
  8. Stokes theorems:

Final exam

There is a comprehensive final exam at the end of the session. (You'll arrange to take it some time July 20–24.) To speed up grading at the end of the session, the exam is multiple choice and filling in blanks, with no partial credit.

For the exam, you may use one sheet of notes that you wrote yourself; please take a scan or a picture of this (both sides) and submit it on Canvas. However, you may not use your textbook, my notes, or anything else not written by you. You certainly should not talk to other people! Calculators are allowed (although you shouldn't really need one), but not communication devices (like cell phones).

The exam consists of questions similar in style and content to those in the practice exam (DjVu).

The final exam is proctored. If you're near any of the three main SCC campuses (Lincoln, Beatrice, Milford), then you can schedule the exam at one of the Testing Centers; it will automatically be ready for you at Lincoln, but let me know if you plan to take it at Beatrice or Milford, so that I can have it ready for you there. If you have access to a computer with a webcam and mike, then you can take it using ProctorU for a small fee; let me know if you want to do this so that I can send you an invitation to schedule it. If you're near Lincoln, then we may be able to schedule a time for you to take the exam with me in person. If none of these will work for you, then contact me as soon as possible!


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