Math 280 B

Fall 2009

Exam 2 Review

Disclaimer: I have attempted to be comprehensive in the following, but important items may have been omitted by mistake. If you see such an omission, please let me know, but you are responsible for all of the lecture material to date.

The second hour exam for Math 280 will be held on Friday, October  23, and will cover section 10.6 through section 12.1 (skipping section 11.6) of the textbook.  In particular, be prepared to:

• Be able to identify and roughly sketch quadric surfaces.
• Be able to differentiate and integrate vector functions
• Be able to calculate arc length.
• Be able to define curvature and torsion, and to calculate the Frenet frame of a vector function.  The table on Page 693 is particularly useful for review.
• Be able to define and calculate curvature and define (but not calculate) torsion.
• Be able to give definitions of interior points, boundary points, open sets, closed sets, and bounded sets.
• Be able generally to solve problems such as appear in the homework assignments, including problems in the current homework assignment (assignment #6)

Any questions? Please ask!