Teaching

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Spring 2026: Math 2500 – Accelerated Calculus III for Engineering Students
(CRN 67930 & 73134)

Instructor: Ruiwen Shu

Email: ruiwen.shu@uga.edu

Office Hours: WF 14:45-15:45

• Location: Boyd Grad Rsch Ctr 541

Lecture time/location:

• Time: (CRN 73134) WF 11:35-12:55; (CRN 67930) WF 13:15-14:35
• Location: Boyd 303

Textbook:
OpenStax Calculus Volume 3
https://openstax.org/details/books/calculus-volume-3/

Syllabus: (updated Jan. 1, 2026)

Lecture notes

Format: lecture_DATE_CHAPTER_SECTION

Week 2:

Week 3:

Week 4:

Week 5:

Week 6:

Suggested textbook problems

Section 2.3: 125, 127, 129, 143, 169

Section 2.4: 183, 189, 191

Section 2.5: 243(a)(b)(d), 251, 281(a), 285, 289, 291

Section 3.2: 41, 49, 51, 55

Section 3.3: 103

Section 3.4: 157, 179 (range: horizontal displacement of the projectile when it hits ground. You can use g=9.8m/sec^2)

Section 4.3: 119, 121, 135, 139, 143

Section 4.4: 171, 207

Section 4.6: 267, 281, 299

Section 4.7: 319, 321 (in the textbook, ‘saddle point’ refers to the case D<0 in second derivative test), 344 (answer: max=0, min=-12)

Section 4.8: 361 (only write the algebraic system for x,y,lambda)

Section 5.1: 21, 35

Section 5.2: 75, 79, 81

Quiz solutions

Formula sheets for exams

Exam solutions