Vector Calculus & Electromagnetics

Resources for Vector Calculus & Electromagnetics - for more information about the courses, please see course outlines.

MLC Drop-In Centre

Students from Vector Calc & Electromag can use the drop-in centre, but we will give priority to first year students. If you see every other table has students, then we would appreciate it if you found another place to sit so that there is room for new students.

Please note that not every staff member in the MLC knows all of the content in Vector Calc & Electromag, there will be times when we can only give general study advice for this course.

Assumed knowledge

Resources that you can use to help you revise assumed knowledge for Vector Calc & Electromag. The various topics in the course are taught assuming you know this information.

Vector Calculus

The course Vector Calculus & Electromagnetics was new in 2020, and so there are no revision seminars designed specially for this course. However, the old course Engineering Mathematics IIB, and the course for Maths/Physics students Multivariable & Complex Calculus II have similar content, so the revision seminars made for those courses should be helpful.

In Semester 1 2019, David did a revision seminar on integrals for students in MCC II. He talked about each of the nine kinds of integrals in the course, comparing their features and finding where the various integral theorems connect them together. He finished off with a couple of examples of using the theorems to make some integrals easier. (David thinks this is one of his best revision seminars for any course ever.) He also turned his paper-and-play-dough diagram from the seminar into a handout, which is linked below.

In Semester 1 2021. David gave a revision seminar for MCC II where he discussed setting up and doing integrals in order to calculate volumes.

In Semester 1 2018, David did a revision seminar for MCC II where he talked about path, surface and volume integrals, working through an exam question involving all of them. He then finished off with a description of parameterisations of various curves and surfaces (starting at 1h40m30s).

In Semester 1 2017, David did a revision seminar for MCC II which contained examples of doing the path, surface and volume integrals that are mentioned in Stokes' Theorem and Gauss' Divergence Theorem.

In Semester 2, 2013, David gave a revision seminar on Vector Calculus including different types of derivatives and integrals (and some aspects of Complex Calculus) to Engineering Maths IIB students. 

In Semester 2 2018, David did a revision seminar for Engineering Maths IIB students, whose middle section (starting at 25m46s) consisted of several examples of exam-style questions on multivariable integrals.

In Semester 2, 2019, David gave a revision seminar for Engineering Maths IIB where the last section (starting at 1h17m45s) was about line and flux integrals.

In 2017, David did a fully worked example for an engineering course about calculating the integrals involved to verify Green's Theorem in the plane. (Note this version of Green's Theorem might be slightly different to the one presented in your course, but the integral techniques are the same.)