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calc 2 is hard

what specifically? i thought it was ok.. i heard from many that it was the hardest from the calc series, but i found 1 to be the hardest for me.. go figure.. 😕
 
It's kinda fun to sit down and just do hundreds of integrals.

But tests suck, because you forget everything when you just see 15 integrals (all hard) and you need to go at it.
 
It sucks taking it during the summer because you are introduced a new incredibly hard/tedious/weird section evaryday.

Monday, integration by parts
Tuesday, Trig Sub
Wed... etc....
 
there are a lot of integration techniques that can bite you in the ass. but once you see the pattern and get the hang of it, it becomes easier. i loved series and sequences 😛
 
ya. taking courses in the summer sucks. right now im taking both calc 3 and linear algebra / ode. ODE's and Lin Alg to me seems pretty easy. just playing with matrices and with stuff i played with before in calc 1 and 2.
 
I took a lot of the beginning of calc 2 in calc 1, so it made the first couple weeks at least a little easier. Being in chem, it was nice to see simple differential equations solved and then see that carried directly over to rate laws of chemical reactions.
 
Originally posted by: fatty4ksu
Originally posted by: SinNisTeR
i loved series and sequences 😛
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Not even there yet. Seriously, that stuff doesn't look so hard. What makes it so hard?
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the only hard part i found to it was the remainder portion of taylor series, where you used that for error checking. my teacher never really went over that, so it left me confused. a lot of people have hard times recognizing different form of series. power series, geometric series, their properties, 1/p^k and what happens when k >= 1 k < 1, etc
 
calc 3 is the easiest imo. you have limits again, partial derivatives fx(x,y) and fy(x,y). polar coords, vectors galore, spherical coords, cylindrical coords, a lot of graphing in the 3rd dimension (x,y,z) and finding area, etc. not too hard.
 
i attend the university of utah in slc. some classes allow you to use whatever you wanted. my calc 1 teacher was some uber smart guy who worked for nasa doing research on micro ice fractures and whatever else he did, doctorate from princeton, he told us we could bring laptops with maple and matlab installed. people still did bad. lol.

my linear alg/ ode teacher says no way to any graphing calc. my calc 2 teacher didnt allow ANY calculator. my calc 3 doesnt care. so its all teacher's preferences. they can make it easy or hard even with or without a calc.
 
I found out on Wednesday that CALC OF ANY SORT IS NOT REQUIRED BY MY MAJOR.

I did a doubletake, and asked the department head.

Still gonna take it anyway, might as well since I spent all that damn time on it in HS 😛
 
Originally posted by: SinNisTeR
i attend the university of utah in slc. some classes allow you to use whatever you wanted. my calc 1 teacher was some uber smart guy who worked for nasa doing research on micro ice fractures and whatever else he did, doctorate from princeton, he told us we could bring laptops with maple and matlab installed. people still did bad. lol.

my linear alg/ ode teacher says no way to any graphing calc. my calc 2 teacher didnt allow ANY calculator. my calc 3 doesnt care. so its all teacher's preferences. they can make it easy or hard even with or without a calc.
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Laptops with maple or matlab, eh? No mathematica? 😛
 
Originally posted by: SinNisTeR
i attend the university of utah in slc. some classes allow you to use whatever you wanted. my calc 1 teacher was some uber smart guy who worked for nasa doing research on micro ice fractures and whatever else he did, doctorate from princeton, he told us we could bring laptops with maple and matlab installed. people still did bad. lol.

my linear alg/ ode teacher says no way to any graphing calc. my calc 2 teacher didnt allow ANY calculator. my calc 3 doesnt care. so its all teacher's preferences. they can make it easy or hard even with or without a calc.
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You are so screwed....
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: SinNisTeR
i attend the university of utah in slc. some classes allow you to use whatever you wanted. my calc 1 teacher was some uber smart guy who worked for nasa doing research on micro ice fractures and whatever else he did, doctorate from princeton, he told us we could bring laptops with maple and matlab installed. people still did bad. lol.

my linear alg/ ode teacher says no way to any graphing calc. my calc 2 teacher didnt allow ANY calculator. my calc 3 doesnt care. so its all teacher's preferences. they can make it easy or hard even with or without a calc.
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Laptops with maple or matlab, eh? No mathematica? 😛
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mathematica too. he said anything but your neighbors. no wireless communications either. but he forgot to mention esp... 😛
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: SinNisTeR
i attend the university of utah in slc. some classes allow you to use whatever you wanted. my calc 1 teacher was some uber smart guy who worked for nasa doing research on micro ice fractures and whatever else he did, doctorate from princeton, he told us we could bring laptops with maple and matlab installed. people still did bad. lol.

my linear alg/ ode teacher says no way to any graphing calc. my calc 2 teacher didnt allow ANY calculator. my calc 3 doesnt care. so its all teacher's preferences. they can make it easy or hard even with or without a calc.
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You are so screwed....
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😕 why?
 
Here at KSU (heavy engie school) they don't allow calculators.

It's a bitch not having my baby (ti-89) on the calc 2 test.

Utah is a sweet campus, school.

 
Originally posted by: SinNisTeR
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: SinNisTeR
i attend the university of utah in slc. some classes allow you to use whatever you wanted. my calc 1 teacher was some uber smart guy who worked for nasa doing research on micro ice fractures and whatever else he did, doctorate from princeton, he told us we could bring laptops with maple and matlab installed. people still did bad. lol.

my linear alg/ ode teacher says no way to any graphing calc. my calc 2 teacher didnt allow ANY calculator. my calc 3 doesnt care. so its all teacher's preferences. they can make it easy or hard even with or without a calc.
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You are so screwed....
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😕 why?
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Calc 2 without a calc is nearly impossible. Calc 3 is supposed to be a breeze compared to Calc 2
 
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