[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Calculus BLOWS!!! (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/1/2009 6:24:37 PM EDT
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That is all. So I thought as well, before Applied Statistics. I had Elementary Stats, Intermediate Stats, and Applied Multiple Linear Regression at my last university before transferring to Auburn. Those were cake compared to this Business Calc class I just finished... and to think, I still have to take Busi Calc 2 this summer. 
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Calculus...when you've passed all 3 semesters, no matter what you do for a living...you're an engineer.
For example, an ordinary person shoveling shit for a living is just a simple shit shoveler, but after 3 semesters of calc your job title is Fecal Matter Movement Engineer. |
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Cal I = lots of algebra
Cal II = lots of Trig Cal III and Cal IV = can't really remember because it was a long time a go and it was very abstract. Overall all 4 sucked, but I passed all of them. Just study alot(in a group if you can) and do the homework You'll make it though. |
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Calculus...when you've passed all 3 semesters, no matter what you do for a living...you're an engineer. For example, an ordinary person shoveling shit for a living is just a simple shit shoveler, but after 3 semesters of calc your job title is Fecal Matter Movement Engineer. You seem to be forgetting Differential Equations |
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Frankly I never learned it. Derivatives and integrals completely baffle me. But I know that calculus is essential to higher learning in many technical skills. Electronics is heavily dependent on calculus once you start getting into the microwave world, where Maxwell's Equations are pretty near the foundation of every microwave circuit design. CJ |
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Calculus was the best class I ever had and I've had plenty. I finished with a 100 average.
I really think that calculus explains how most everything in the world works. I loved it and have helped several engineering students get through it. I wish everything in life was as easy as calculus. But you have got to stay on top of it. Let it slide a day or two and you will never catch up. PS: My major was mechanical engineering. |
I still have no clue how I passed calc 3, I remember on finals week a couple days before the final I realized that I didn't really learn anything the entire quarter(semester for you slow learning folks)! The first half of discrete math 2 was like that too. All those different degrees of infinity and the like. 
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Frankly I never learned it. Derivatives and integrals completely baffle me. But I know that calculus is essential to higher learning in many technical skills. Electronics is heavily dependent on calculus once you start getting into the microwave world, where Maxwell's Equations are pretty near the foundation of every microwave circuit design. CJ A friend of mine applied for a reseach job with Bell Labs many years ago. As part of the interview they gave him a few hours to restate Maxwells Equations using the laws of thermodynamics. |
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Calculus...when you've passed all 3 semesters, no matter what you do for a living...you're an engineer. For example, an ordinary person shoveling shit for a living is just a simple shit shoveler, but after 3 semesters of calc your job title is Fecal Matter Movement Engineer. You seem to be forgetting Differential Equations Yes-that is the only class I took when I got my B.S.M.E. where the issue was in doubt-I still don't know how I ever managed to pass that one.
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Calculus was the best class I ever had and I've had plenty. I finished with a 100 average. I really think that calculus explains how most everything in the world works. I loved it and have helped several engineering students get through it. I wish everything in life was as easy as calculus. But you have got to stay on top of it. Let it slide a day or two and you will never catch up. PS: My major was mechanical engineering. Really?......when was the last time you had to find a point on a sine wave where a line that passed through it travelled to infinity....yesterday? 
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I almost got my Anton book out recently to refresh my memory. But instead I just rubbed some of the black stuff from under my bench grinder in my eyes. Not really. First semester is not too bad. Areas under curves, simple volumes, the basics of integrals and derivatives. Second semester was hard for me - especially when it got into convergence/divergence, Fourier series, and so on. Third semester was the most fun - multidimensional surfaces, multivariable integrals . . . Oh the memories - it's been at least 15 years and I'm not sure how much of it I could still do . . . I'll have to refresh to start teaching my kids before too long. In all my years of engineering, I've actually used calculus one time to solve a problem. I worked at a medical products company and we had to make a whistle in a breathing apparatus that would make noise at a particular frequency in a specific air-flow range. The whistle was there to alert the user to slow down their breathing. What it came down to was calculating the resonant frequency of a beam ( the reed in the whistle ) given its material properties and geometry and then matching that frequency to the frequency at which the air flow could create and sustain a pressure wave in the area around the reed. The company had been having a problem with their whistles working for over 10 years, and the solution we came up with using real math worked and solved that problem forever. They had been chasing it by way of material changes and other things that really didn't matter. Now I do electronics design and the vast majority of what I work with has been simplified to equations that work in most cases well enough to be practical in everyday use. hang in there. It's worth it. -grommet |
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Calculus...when you've passed all 3 semesters, no matter what you do for a living...you're an engineer. For example, an ordinary person shoveling shit for a living is just a simple shit shoveler, but after 3 semesters of calc your job title is Fecal Matter Movement Engineer. You seem to be forgetting Differential Equations Didn't get that far, but I hear the diff EQ guys get to design the shovels the FMMEs use. 
Toughest math class I ever took was probability theory. I suppose I would have understood it had I taken intro to proofs BEFORE prob theory but it was only "recommended" by the math department. |
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isnt all math easy as long as you dedicate time to studying?
i mean seriously. other classes i bitch and moan when i have to actually study more than what i usually do to get a decent grade. Math? I have friends that tell me they dont study for math at all, just sit in class, browse the book and take the test the next day and pull an A easily. Me in math = I sit in class, dont learn a fucking single thing in class, Ill walk in after getting a 100% on my last test and have no clue how to do anything in the next chapter at all. i have to take my book home, study for 6+ hours per chapter to get an A on the test... Is this norm or do i have a mental problem? |
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Calculus was the best class I ever had and I've had plenty. I finished with a 100 average. I really think that calculus explains how most everything in the world works. I loved it and have helped several engineering students get through it. I wish everything in life was as easy as calculus. But you have got to stay on top of it. Let it slide a day or two and you will never catch up. PS: My major was mechanical engineering. Really?......when was the last time you had to find a point on a sine wave where a line that passed through it travelled to infinity....yesterday? Oh you will be glad you learned calculus when you are stranded on a desert island and you come across a pool of bacteria and you have to figure out how much longer you have to live before it takes over. 
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I took Cal I and college algebra together.
Then Cal II and Trig Then Cal III and Statics(Engineering mechanics I) Then Cal IV and Dynamics(Engineering mechanics II) Can barely remeber any of the calculus quit school in 97' so my wife could finish nursing....then she divorced me...never went back 
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Calculus was the best class I ever had and I've had plenty. I finished with a 100 average. I really think that calculus explains how most everything in the world works. I loved it and have helped several engineering students get through it. I wish everything in life was as easy as calculus. But you have got to stay on top of it. Let it slide a day or two and you will never catch up. PS: My major was mechanical engineering. Really?......when was the last time you had to find a point on a sine wave where a line that passed through it travelled to infinity....yesterday? Oh you will be glad you learned calculus when you are stranded on a desert island and you come across a pool of bacteria and you have to figure out how much longer you have to live before it takes over. I must have really forgotten...dont remember the parts about bacteria  ..i bet calculus is just a wright of passage....all the old school guys had to do it so everyone else has to also? surelly computer do all that stuff now?
I have heard anyone^^^^^^^that actually uses it 
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I must have really forgotten...dont remember the parts about bacteria ..i bet calculus is just a wright of passage....all the old school guys had to do it so everyone else has to also? surelly computer do all that stuff now?
I have heard anyone^^^^^^^that actually uses it That's pretty much what I think. It's been in the curriculum so long that everyone has to do it. Whatever... if that's what it takes to get the piece of paper, I'll do it. I can say if I'll ever use it... I haven't really been in the workforce at the professional level yet, so I can't say. Somehow though... I'm thinking not. |