Parametric Equations
Polar Coordinates
Sketch the following polar curves without using a computer.
Sketch the following sets of points.
Calculus in Polar Coordinates
Find points where the following curves have vertical or horizontal tangents.
Sketch the region and find its area.
Vectors and Dot Product
Cross Product
Find and
Find the area of the parallelogram with sides and .
Prove the following identities or show them false by giving a counterexample.
Calculus of Vector-Valued Functions
Motion in Space
Length of Curves
Find the length of the following curves.
Parametrization and Normal Vectors
Equations of Lines And Planes
Limits And Continuity
Evaluate the following limits.
At what points is the function f continuous?
Use the two-path test to show that the following limits do not exist. (A path does not have to be a straight line.)
Partial Derivatives
Find the four second partial derivatives of the following functions.
Chain Rule
Find
Find
Tangent Planes
Find an equation of a plane tangent to the given surface at the given point(s).
Maximum And Minimum Problems
Find critical points of the function f. When possible, determine whether each critical point corresponds to a local maximum, a local minimum, or a saddle point.
Start with a candidate point , and envision that the and coordinates are changing at rates of and respectively: and . The rate of change in is .
- is a local minimum only if for all . This occurs iff .
- is a local maximum only if for all . This occurs iff .
Points where are "critical points" and may contain a local minimum, a local maximum, or a saddle point. It is then needed to classify the critical point.
The second derivative is .
- A critical point is a local minimum iff for all .
- A critical point is a local maximum iff for all .
- A critical point that is neither a local minimum nor a local maximum is a saddle point.
While it will not be shown here, can attain both positive and negative values iff .
- A critical point is a local minimum if and
- A critical point is a local maximum if and
- A critical point is a saddle point if
The quantity will be called the "discriminant".
Find absolute maximum and minimum values of the function f on the set R.
Let denote the function for which the absolute minimum and maximum is sought. Let the domain be constrained to all points where where is an appropriate function over .
Start with a candidate point where , and envision that the and coordinates are changing at rates of and respectively: and . The rate of change in is . Since it is required that , it must be the case that .
is a local minimum or maximum only if for all where . This occurs iff the gradient is parallel to the gradient . This condition can be quantified by where factor is a "Lagrange multiplier".
Points where and for some are candidate points for the absolute minimum or maximum. If the domain has any corners, then these corners are also candidate points.
Consider two surfaces and in 3D space defined by the equations and respectively. Given a point from and a point from , if and are the points that minimize the distance between and , then it must be the case that the displacement is perpendicular to both surfaces. The gradient vector is orthogonal to , and the gradient vector is orthogonal to . The displacement vector must be parallel to both gradient vectors: for some and .
Candidate points for the shortest distance between two surfaces must satisfy the following 8 equations: for some and .
Double Integrals over Rectangular Regions
Evaluate the given integral over the region R.
Evaluate the given iterated integrals.
Double Integrals over General Regions
Evaluate the following integrals.
Use double integrals to compute the volume of the given region.
Double Integrals in Polar Coordinates
Triple Integrals
In the following exercises, sketching the region of integration may be helpful.
Cylindrical And Spherical Coordinates
Center of Mass and Centroid
Vector Fields
One can sketch two-dimensional vector fields by plotting vector values, flow curves, and/or equipotential curves.
Line Integrals
Conservative Vector Fields
Determine if the following vector fields are conservative on
Determine if the following vector fields are conservative on their respective domains in When possible, find the potential function.
Green's Theorem
Divergence And Curl
Surface Integrals
Stokes' Theorem
where , is the upper half of the ellipsoid , and points in the direction of the z-axis.
where , is the part of the sphere for , and points in the direction of the z-axis.
Divergence Theorem
Compute the net outward flux of the given field across the given surface.