Syllabus for Math 1512
Honors Calculus II
Fall 2012

The timing of topics in this syllabus is approximate and may change during the semester.

Below, Bx means Chapter x of Bretscher and Sy means Chapter y of Spivak.

• Linear Equations
  • Text: B1
  • Lectures: 8/21, 8/23
  • Homework due: 8/28
• Linear Transformations
  • Text: B2
  • Lectures: 8/28, 8/30, 9/4
  • Homework due: 9/4 and 9/11
• Subspaces of Rⁿ
  • Text: B3
  • Lectures: 9/6, 9/11, 9/13
  • Homework due: 9/11 and 9/18
• Linear Spaces
  • Text: B4
  • Lectures: 9/18, 9/20
  • Homework due: 9/25
• Exam 1 on 9/25 covering B1-B3
• Orthogonality and least squares
  • Text: B5
  • Lectures: 9/27, 10/2, 10/4
  • Homework due: 10/2 and 10/9
• Determinants
  • Text: B6
  • Lectures: 10/9, 10/11
  • Homework due: 10/18 (Thursday)
• Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
  • Text: B7, S25
  • Lectures: 10/18, 10/23, 10/25
  • Homework due: 10/23 and 10/30
• Exam 2 on 11/6 covering B1-B7, S25
• Sequences and series, possibly with complex coefficients
  • Text: S20, S22-27
  • Lectures: 10/30 through 11/20
  • (Exact topics and dates will depend on performance up to this point and how much you remember from the AP course.)
• Linear differential equations
  • Text: B9, instructor notes
  • Lectures: 11/27, 11/29, 12/4, 12/6
  • Homework due: 12/4