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Post by FantasticDamage on Jan 19, 2006 14:28:22 GMT -5
Yeah so its like week 2 of school and I already feel behind in Calculus  Math sucks! |
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Post by squirrel on Jan 19, 2006 14:52:40 GMT -5
Don't feel bad I squeezed 4 semesters of Calculus into 6. second and third semester calc are extremely difficult. The good thing is you will probably never use it after you get through the class!
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Post by Trigga Nometry on Jan 19, 2006 15:06:30 GMT -5
Don't feel bad I squeezed 4 semesters of Calculus into 6. second and third semester calc are extremely difficult. The good thing is you will probably never use it after you get through the class! It really depends what type of job you find yourself in after school. About 3 years after college, I actually had to use calculus to calculate something that needed to be integrated. I was freaking shocked that I had a use for it! Anyway, yeah, I found the 2nd semester of CAlc the absolute worse! Just be thankful you don't have to take differential calculus. Now THAT was hard. |
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Post by BMFer on Jan 19, 2006 15:11:29 GMT -5
True, not much use for it outside of school, unless you get into a advanced science or applied math field.
However, if you've got further math requirements in college, study hard. You don't want to get left behind in calc 1. A LOT of the topics learned in calc 1 spring up in later calc courses, diff eq and others.
I missed a lot in calc 1, during a few semester breaks I had to go back on my own and re-learn all that I had missed before calc 2 and 3. Not fun.
But then again, if this is your last calc recquirement, just shoot for the grade.
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Post by 99GenX on Jan 19, 2006 19:01:36 GMT -5
We do the entire college corse (AP) of calc in 1 semister (and it actually counts as college credits) - suck on that  To bad I won't be taking it as pre-calc/nazi teacher hammered me pretty hard. Good luck bro, I know it can be tough! |
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Post by Vashthestampede on Jan 19, 2006 19:19:04 GMT -5
It doesn't count as college credit unless you get a 4 or 5 on the exam. Also I love being in the life sciences because after MA231 this semester I'm done with math.
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Post by MNewman15 on Jan 19, 2006 20:38:32 GMT -5
...i hate you all for scarying the **** outta me :-\
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Post by squirrel on Jan 20, 2006 14:19:52 GMT -5
Don't worry Calc for most majors are just some of those classes you have to get through. 2nd and 3rd semester calc are the toughest. 4th semester calc at my school was intro to differential equations which was a breeze for me. I showed up so little to that class that I had to stop by the professors office to pick up my grades for the last two tests in the class. I was ashamed that he knew my name  ! I am a Civil engineer and I have never used calc and probably couldn't do any of it now if my life depended on it  . |
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Post by Decker on Jan 21, 2006 3:53:58 GMT -5
Wow, I dont even know my times tables (no seriously)
My school has a poor math program, but a good football one.
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Madman
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Post by Madman on Jan 24, 2006 1:24:37 GMT -5
I'm a college grad, an Air Force Officer and a Pilot Candidate on my way to UPT and I've never had to take a Calc class.
I've had ONE trigonometry class. Seriously, unless you're going into a science/computer/engineering major in college dont even worry about it. Even better, dont even take it.
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Post by pk on Jan 24, 2006 3:31:00 GMT -5
I'm in Calc II right now, I had to drop the class my first time around because i was just taking too many credit hours to do the work of all my classes. For me the hardest thing for calculus is actually the algebra. There are just too many tricks that I never learned because our high school alegebra & adv algebra wasn't very helpful, plus people wouldn't understand a section so we'd spend way too much time doing the same thing over and over again...and trig (pre calc) was more confusing than calculus. Eitherway, I was still able to place in to calculus my first semester without taking the SAT.
If you are looking at a degree that requires calculus, my advice is get the Ti-89 as soon as you can. Just learning how to use this calculator when you've been using a 89 for a few years will take a lot of adjusting; it can however, easily solve algebra & calculus problems if you know how to use it. In calculus the final answer isn't as important as setting up the sollution and simply understanding what you're trying to do.
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Post by jestertls on Jan 25, 2006 2:21:16 GMT -5
College drop out, yeah baby!!!!!
Good luck, I fell math in High School.
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Post by squirrel on Jan 25, 2006 10:33:28 GMT -5
I would respectfully disagree with the TI-89 recommendation. The HP 48-g or 49 are much more powerful calculators. The have awesome capabilities, I have gone through 3 of the 48-gs. I love mine.
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Post by geologist on Jan 26, 2006 23:44:00 GMT -5
Calc can suck my dingaling. I passed the AP, got the college credit, sweated my way through Calc 2 in college, and ran like a thief. Calc 2 is all I would need for my masters, so I am offically done with Calc for life. Have yet to have an application for it, even in the real world. 'Sides, these days, someone else has already done it, and a quick google search will give you the answer.  |
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