Calculus II – APSC 172

Calendar Description: This course continues calculus concepts from APSC 171, including space curves, speed, and velocity. Functions of several variables, partial derivatives, differentials, error estimates, gradient, maxima and minima. Double and triple integrals, polar and cylindrical coordinates; applications to mass, center of mass, moment. Series, power series; Taylor polynomial approximations, error analysis.

The workbook used in lectures is copyright Peter Taylor, Queen’s University Department of Mathematics and Statistics; used with permission.

Videos are lecture-capture videos from Winter 2023 or Winter 2024.

Week 1 – Parameterized Lines and Curves, Planes, Reflection in a Plane

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Week 1 Lec 3 – Sec 102
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Week 1 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 2 – Surfaces, Contour Diagrams, Partial Derivatives

NotesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
Full week notes (PDF)Week 2 Lec 1 – Sec 101

Week 2 Lec 2 – Sec 101Week 2 Lec 3 – Sec 101

Week 2 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 3 – Tangent Planes, Chain Rule, Linear Approximation

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Full week notes (PDF)
Week 3 Lec 1 – Sec 101

Week 3 Lec 2 – Sec 101

Week 3 Lec 3 – Sec 101

Week 3 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 4 – Gradient and Slope

NotesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
Full week notes (PDF)Week 4 Lec 1 – Sec 102
Week 4 Lec 2 – Sec 102

Week 4 Lec 3 – Sec 102

Week 4 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 5 – Optimization: Max and Min

NotesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
Full week notes (PDF)Week 5 Lec 1 – Sec 101Week 5 Lec 2 – Sec 101Week 5 Lec 3 – Sec 101

Week 5 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 6 – The Parent Game, Cone Mountain

NotesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
Full week notes (PDF)Week 6 Lec 1 – Sec 102Week 6 Lec 2 – Sec 101No lecture

Week 7 – Infinite Series, Alternating Series, Power Series

NotesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
Full week notes (PDF)Week 7 Lec 1 – Sec 102Week 7 Lec 2 – Sec 102Week 7 Lec 3 – Sec 102

Week 7 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 8 – Taylor series, Maclaurin series, Taylor’s Inequality

NotesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
Full week notes (PDF)Week 8 Lec 1 – Sec 101Week 8 Lec 2 – Sec 101Week 8 Lec 3 – Sec 101

Week 8 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 9 – Double Integrals, Iterated Integrals

NotesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
Full week notes (PDF)Week 9 Lec 1 – Sec 101Week 9 Lec 2 – Sec 101Week 9 Lec 3 – Sec 101

Week 9 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 10 – Integration with Polar Coordinates, Centre of Mass

NotesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
Full week notes (PDF)Week 10 Lec 1 – Sec 101Week 10 Lec 2 – Sec 101Week 10 Lec 3 – Sec 101

Week 10 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 11 – Triple Integrals

NotesLecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3
Full week notes (PDF)Week 11 Lec 1 – Sec 101Week 11 Lec 2 – Sec 101Week 11 Lec 3 – Sec 101

Week 11 Practice Problems: Questions, Solutions

Week 12 – Review

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