## Thursday, April 20, 2017

### exam three is over!

Exam three is totally over. The exam covers sections 13.1 through 13.7No electronic devices are allowed at the exam.

We will provide you with this equation sheet. Be careful, some facts are not on the equation sheet. You need to know how to find limits of integration and how to integrate. You need to know how to calculate areas using double integrals and how to calculate volumes using double or triple integrals. You should also know the cosine and sine of common angles like $0$, $\pi/6$, $\pi/4$, $\pi/3$, $\pi/2$, $\pi$, and $2\pi$ radians.
Your exam room is a function of the first three letters of your last name.

• Aaa through Iri, go to CR 302
• Jag through Rac, go to CR 306
• Rai through Zzz, go to CR 310

• Once again, we are sharing the rooms with Calculus II (or I) students. Don't sit next to another Calculus III student.

To practice for the exam, use the problems from MyMathLab, your discussion section, and the mock exams (problems from 13.7 appear on mock exams 4a, 4b, and 3c) and examples from the text. If you don't understand something ask questions at your discussion section and during our office hours.

How to prepare for this exam?
... I didn’t just do a math homework problem and turn it in. Instead, particularly if it was an important homework problem, I would work it and rework it fresh, spacing the practice out over several days. I wouldn’t peek at the answer unless I absolutely had to. That ensured I really could solve the problem myself—that I wasn’t just fooling myself that I knew it. After I was comfortable that I could really solve the problem by myself on paper, I then “went mental,” practicing the steps in my mind until the solution could flow like a sort of mental song. I could perform this kind of mental practice at times people often don’t think to use for studying—like in the shower, or when I was walking to class. I found that this attention to chunking eventually gave me sort of magic powers—I could glance at many problems, even ones I’d never seen before, and know virtually instantly how to solve them. ... Sometimes people think they suffer from test anxiety when they perform poorly on [a] test, but surprisingly often, they don’t. They’re simply experiencing panic as they suddenly realize they don’t know the material as well as they thought they did. They haven’t created neural chunks.