It's not differential calculus, right? That I found pretty confusing. Too much remembering. I suck at deliberately remembering things. And the explanations that take 8 whiteboards full of math (seriously) didn't help any.
Regular calculus though, I don't remember there being so much to remember. Though it might be relative - I may have thought differently when taken the class, but after differential calculus, it as was piece of cake.
Overall, linear algebra and discrete math are more my thing. Graph theory always seemed interesting, but the 7am class made it an unrealistic pursuit - I signed up but had to drop it because I didn't make it to a single class the first two weeks. (maybe I made one, but late)
ummm..... good question... i dunno LOL. Is differential calculus the same as differential equation? We went over a little bit of differential equation in calc 2 and its supposed to be on the exam.So i'm assuming there is going to be differential equation in calc 3
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yes, I meant "differential equations" I forget nearly all of diffeq. I know the "Laplace transform" was pretty key. Though there were a bunch of other transforms. And the class was basically just memorizing them and knowing which to use when. Understanding was pretty much an infeasible.
where sin and cos are at various key points I'd guess was expected of me. Since when they're 0/1/-1, you can easily remove them.
Yeah, I'm not sure what was up with it being that early. Maybe prof was part-time and had a 9-5 job? (But then why not make it evening? I had problems making the evening classes.) Normally earliest is 8am. And my one 8am class I was late to a lot, but I don't think I ever missed it.
I'll keep the laplace transformation in mind. I'm assuming taylor series and some series stuff is important as its the last thing we learned and it had differential equation... But it'd probably be a good idea and try to understand the differential equation stuff of calc 2 before calc 3 starts... My friend literally taught it to me a few hours before the exam. The teacher did a HORRENDOUS job of teaching it...
i could not understand the circle for cos and sin (which is used to figure out cos0 or sin 0, sin(pi/2) etc... just forgot what it was called...)during precalc for whatever reason... i just could not grasp the idea... and i still don't don't fully do either. And it just keeps coming back and biting me in the ass....
Maybe they couldn't fit the class anywhere else in the schedule? I had a few 8am/8:30 am classes... its a pain to wake up that early but i usually didn't miss them... but have due to oversleeping...was late a few time def...
Some teachers do an amazingly bad job. I got a better understanding of digital signal processing in the one week a quick review of it for my compression class, than I did in the whole DSP class. (Compression prof was pretty good. One of the best I've had. DSP Prof was one of the worst I've had. Maybe the worst
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Yea there are some amazingly bad teachers...My friends had the unfortunate experience of having a few of them for their chem and physics (for engineering) classs as they are engineering majors. They are also the only professors who teaches some of those classes unfortunately.
If it works it works LOL. There are always more than one way to do a problem... If it works it works and thats all that matters. My friend who helped me out/semi tutored me in calc knows most of the small and random shortcuts to get to the answer faster. But i'd much rather go the way i know and will work and am comfortable with. As long as you get to point A to point B correctly i really could care less which way i do it.
Now that i think about it i don't think my precalc teacher in high school explained the circle that well. When my friend had reviewed it to me it made sense. It was the same way you said it.
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Regular calculus though, I don't remember there being so much to remember. Though it might be relative - I may have thought differently when taken the class, but after differential calculus, it as was piece of cake.
Overall, linear algebra and discrete math are more my thing. Graph theory always seemed interesting, but the 7am class made it an unrealistic pursuit - I signed up but had to drop it because I didn't make it to a single class the first two weeks. (maybe I made one, but late)
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where sin and cos are at various key points I'd guess was expected of me. Since when they're 0/1/-1, you can easily remove them.
Yeah, I'm not sure what was up with it being that early. Maybe prof was part-time and had a 9-5 job? (But then why not make it evening? I had problems making the evening classes.) Normally earliest is 8am. And my one 8am class I was late to a lot, but I don't think I ever missed it.
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i could not understand the circle for cos and sin (which is used to figure out cos0 or sin 0, sin(pi/2) etc... just forgot what it was called...)during precalc for whatever reason... i just could not grasp the idea... and i still don't don't fully do either. And it just keeps coming back and biting me in the ass....
Maybe they couldn't fit the class anywhere else in the schedule? I had a few 8am/8:30 am classes... its a pain to wake up that early but i usually didn't miss them... but have due to oversleeping...was late a few time def...
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If it works it works LOL. There are always more than one way to do a problem... If it works it works and thats all that matters. My friend who helped me out/semi tutored me in calc knows most of the small and random shortcuts to get to the answer faster. But i'd much rather go the way i know and will work and am comfortable with. As long as you get to point A to point B correctly i really could care less which way i do it.
Now that i think about it i don't think my precalc teacher in high school explained the circle that well. When my friend had reviewed it to me it made sense. It was the same way you said it.
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