Please contact me at
kawski@asu.edu
if you are interested in this class.
Personally, I am very engaged with the material of this class,
and I urge everyone to play with and explore my
JAVA
vector field analyzer II
(follow the link on the top right of that sample page, or
launch
the program from here.)
While this was originally written for MAT 200 level courses (272, 274, ..),
I am sure that most everyone will still get a much better
feeling for many objects of vector analysis when supported
with such interactive, visual accessories.
I am very excited about this class, and hope you will join, share
the enthusiasm, and even advertise the course in other departments,
and bring your friends!
Of course, do not hesitate contacting me
at any time.
The main course objective is that all students develop a deep
and complete understanding of Stokes' theorem (in its many forms).
Typically, the MAT 272 classes never have enough time to
address more than a few formal aspects.
Our goals include a complete intuitive understanding in terms
of many applications (electro-magnetic fields, fluid dynamics,
numerical methods, ...), practice how to actually use the
results to solve problems, and, appropriate for an applied
MAT 400-level course, also develop the formal background to
a reasonable level of sophistication.
I am excited that I again managed to reserve the fully mediated, state-of-the-art classroom ECG 320 for this class --- this will make a big difference!!!! Feel free to visit the WWW-site of the spring 2003 class if you'd like to get some idea what the class might be like.
Aside: Most likely we will use a new text -- very different from the one used last year.