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Posted here are useful links and documents that I composed while teaching or assisting in various math courses.
The documents are review and/or lecture notes, written for particular courses/exams/books.
The corresponding book titles are noted below.
These files may contain outdated information about websites, office hours, etc.,
or contain notes to myself about what to cover in my lectures.
But the math is still good!
These notes may not be comprehensive and may contain errors.
Please email errata information to: dambroise@math.umass.edu
These documents may be reproduced for personal use, but are not to be distributed or sold.
Topic Book Errata
Basic Math
   Binary and Other Bases
   Roman Numerals
   Percents
   Interest
   Installment Buying
   Mortgages
   Combinations and Permutations
   Probability and Odds
   Data and Statistics
   Measurements and Conversions
   Geometry
Thinking Mathematically
2nd edition, by Robert Blitzer
(Prentice-Hall)
Calculus I
   Old Exams From Umass Classes
Calculus: Early Transcendentals
5th Edition, by James Stewart
Calculus II
   Antidifferentiation, Integrals as "Area" and
the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

   6-3 Area Between Curves
   6-3 Cumulative Change, Average, Mean Value Theorem, Volume
   6-3 Arclength
   7-1 Substitution
   7-2 Integration By Parts
   Review
   7-3 Practicing Integration
   7-3 Integrating Rational Functions
   How To Set Up PFD
   7-4 Indefinite Integrals of Type 1 (x goes to infinity)
   7-4 Indefinite Integrals of Type 2 (y goes to infinity)
   8-1 Differential Equations
   8-1 Differential Equations continued
   7-6 Tables Of Integrals
   Integration Flow Chart & Tables Of Integrals
   8-2 Equilibria and Stability
   Systems of Differential Equations
Calculus for Biology and Medicine
2nd Edition, by Claudia Neuhauser
Calculus II
   Overview of Integration, Areas, Volumes and Series
   Trig Facts
   Step by Step Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
   Chart of Convergence Tests for Series
   Series Convergence Examples
   Power, Taylor and Maclaurin Series
Calculus: Early Transcendentals
5th Edition, by James Stewart
Calculus III
   12-1 Three-Dimensional Coordinate Systems
   12-2 Vectors
   12-3 The Dot Product
   12-4 The Cross Product
   12-5-1 Equations of Lines
   12-5-2 Equations of Planes
   Review Graphing Conic Sections
   12-6 Cylinders and Quadric Surfaces
   10-1 Curves Defined By Parametric Equations
   13-1 Vector Functions and Space Curves
   13-2 Derivatives and Integrals of Vector Functions
   Review Of Differentiation And Integration
   13-3 Arclength and Curvature
   13-4 Motion in Space Velocity and Acceleration
   Review Part 1a Vectors, Lines, Planes, Surfaces
   Review Part 1b Computations with Lines and Planes
   14-1 Functions of Several Variables
   14-2 Limits and Continuity
   14-3 Partial Derivatives
   Meaning Of Derivatives Chart
   14-4 Tangent Planes and Linear Approximations
   14-5 The Chain Rule
   14-6 Directional Derivatives and the Gradient Vector
   14-7 Maximum and Minimum Values
   14-8 Lagrange Multipliers
   Review Max/Min Values and Lagrange Multipliers
   15-1 Double Integrals over Rectangles
   15-2 Iterated Integrals
   15-3 Double Integrals over General Regions
   Review Part 2
   10-3 Polar Coordinates
   15-4 Double Integrals in Polar Coordinates
   15-5 Applications of Double Integrals
   16-1 Vector Fields
   16-2 Line Integrals
   16-3 Fundamental Theorem For Line Integrals
   16-4 Green's Theorem
   Summary of Line Integral Methods
   Calc III Overview
Calculus: Early Transcendentals
5th Edition, by James Stewart
Differential Equations Problems
   HW#1
   HW#2
   HW#3
   HW#4
   HW#5
   HW#6
   HW#7
   Course-Wide Review (very computational)
Elementary Differential Equations
8th Edition, by Boyce & DiPrima
Differential Equations
   Review Part I (both qualitative and computational)
   3-7 Trace-Determinant Plane
     (classifies all possible phase plane behaviours
     of constant-coeff second order homogeneous eqns)
   3-6 2nd Order Linear Constant Coeff Equations
   Some Problems 3-7, 4-1
     (4-1: NonHomog 2nd Order Linear Eqns,
     i.e. forced harmonic oscillators)
   6-1 Definition of Laplace Transforms
   List Of Laplace Transforms
   Some Laplace Transform Problems
   6-5 Convolutions
   6-6 Poles of Laplace Transform (qualitative results)
   Review Problems
Differential Equations
8th Edition, by Blanchard, Devaney and Hall


Old Course Websites

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