Question

Anyone else taking calc III over summer??

Answer 1

I am

Answer 2

Already taken xP However, I'm taking pellet-retricechemistry over the summer :/

Answer 3

General Chemistry?

Answer 4

calc 1; get to trudge thru calc 2 in the fall ...

Answer 5

Yeah, general.

Answer 6

Shush amistre.

Answer 7

I am not taking Chemistry until last semester before I graduate

Answer 8

I didn't realize so many responded even though i was checking -- this site has changed since the last time I was on it haha. Im taking it in Southern California at a local community college how about you?

Answer 9

Oh im guessing you meant "what are you learning right now"....right now i'm learning: calculus with vector functions, tangent normal and binormal vectors, arc length with vector functions, curvature, and a little bit of velocity and acceleration stuff....all withing two days this was taught...and have a test on all of this and some prior stuff on weds.

Answer 10

ewww chemistry..good luck!

Answer 11

I just got all with those stuff, now we are doing partial

Answer 12

Any advice for the test on that stuff? :P

Answer 13

Its rough for me to fully grasp cuz i never learned parametric equations in calc II.

Answer 14

If you have any questions just post it :P Thats my advice. I can help you with it if need be xP

Answer 15

My community had pretty easy test,

Answer 16

yeah i'm hopping it will b easy cuz i could see that a prof. could easily make the test extremely hard. But with learning this stuff in two class days, they can't make it too hard.

Malevolence: Thanks, yeah I'll let you know/post questions when I come across any problems. Right now I'm just reading through the sections

Answer 17

Magnitude will end up being 1 which will make it easier to find tangent, normal vector

Answer 18

yeah, makes sense

Answer 19

What major are you uphil? Just curious.

Answer 20

I'll be a soph. next semester so its still pretty early. And I still really want to take a Comp. Sci. class. But i'll most likely (and hopefully) decide after this spring semester. Because I'll be exposed to all the pre-upper division classes of the stuff that i'm considering.

Anyways, right now I am on track for a double major in Econ and Math. Whether I stick with that is up in the air. Like I said, by the end of spring i'll decide on either a double or a major in one and a minor in the other...or maybe something completely different?? Hope not :P

Answer 21

How about you?

Answer 22

You gonna be taking a lot more math classes if you are a math major

Answer 23

Lol I know that

Answer 24

I have to take differential eq and linear algebra then I am done with math

Answer 25

U doin physics?

Answer 26

who me?

Answer 27

yeah

Answer 28

no, elec engineering

Answer 29

Gotcha. I'm a math and physics double major. I'm a senior (as of this fall).

Answer 30

oh mal asked the question.. just realized

Answer 31

Grats thats sweet. What phys elective are u taking

Answer 32

I took Classical Mechanics last fall and it was hell

Answer 33

Grats on electrical though imran^^ Heard that wasn't too easy either haha.
uphil-As far as physics electives are concerned, I'm actually not taking alot of them. At the university I got to, any 3000-up math class counts as a physics elective. So I'm taking general relativity and intro particle physics, but other than that its just about all math (topology, complex analysis, number theory, real analysis, partial differential equations, etc). I want to focus more on math (opposite of what I expected going into college)

Answer 34

Heard physics 2 is worse

Answer 35

Its just so much more interesting to me.

Answer 36

Do You like applied math or pure math better?

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Pure. Absolutely. I'm taking partial diffeq because I should have "computational experience" when applying for grad school.

Answer 38

I have difficulty understanding something that is abstract ; helps me learn better if I know what something is used for.

Answer 39

Yeah, some people are like that. I'm more of a person where, I can study something whether its practical or not, useful or not, or it doesn't even have to exist. lol.

Answer 40

My calc III instructor from community is from last century. To plot 3 dimensional , she plot y and z axis on the board and x axis on a paper she hold against the board. That's make no sense to me.

Answer 41

Lol. Well thats odd haha.

Answer 42

she's never heard of wolfram alpha

Answer 43

But community college is much cheaper than my uni

Answer 44

haha thats dumb how she graphs ^

Answer 45

I really want to take geometry, topology, and i'll HAVE to take real analysis, not totally psyched for that htough

Answer 46

I don't know but I tune out because that confuses me and everyone else. She could use wolfram alpha make it easier for everyone

Answer 47

I don't have to take reals but its recommended, its either now or grad school :/ I've heard topo is just as hard as reals though.

Answer 48

How about abstract algebra?

Answer 49

I hate the guy who teaches it at my school >.>
I know that helps though :P

Answer 50

Abstract isn't too bad.