MATH 2601: WEEK 13

Topics for this week are:

• Tangent planes
• Finding local and absolute extrema
• Lagrange multiplier method

Text coverage:

    Sec 15.4-15.6 from [S.H.E], Web-note: Note on the Hessian and second derivative test

Online resources:

• Online notes
  • Web note on the Hessian and second derivative test
• Answers to selected problems
• Maple worksheets
  • Tangents and normals (by J. A. Ziegler)
  • Maximization (by J. A. Ziegler)
  • Absolute Extrema (by J. A. Ziegler)
  • Lagrange Multipliers (by J. A. Ziegler)

Assignment for this week:

• Problems:
  • Section 15.4: 3, 11, 23, 29, 35
  • Section 15.5: 13, 17, 25, 29, 47, 59
  • Section 15.6: 11, 23, 33

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