Re:Calculus in 20 Minutes
by abstractbill on Friday June 13, 2008 @06:36PM
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Out of interest, I've never heard this naming scheme (calc 1, calc 2, etc?) back in the UK but it seems quite common in the US. Is the content of these courses very standardized? How far does the sequence go?
Re:Calculus in 20 Minutes
by bkovitz on Friday June 13, 2008 @11:36PM
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It's very standard.
Calc 1: Differentiation up to the Chain Rule, with applications like maximization problems. Basic integration, up to the Substitution Rule.
Calc 2: More-difficult integration techniques (integration by parts, trigonometric substitution, partial-fraction decomposition), infinite series. Most people find Calc 2 the toughest because of the infinite series.
Calc 3: Multivariate calculus, partial derivatives, lots of 3D stuff. Easy, intuitive, spatial.
Re:Calculus in 20 Minutes
by bluelu on Saturday June 14, 2008 @07:25AM
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These are highschool courses or? We did that in highschool (allthough it was repeated in university as well). I suspect the russians are learning that in primary school, because they are so good at math. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OkFTDG4fY&feature=relat...
I am learning calculus from this book on my own. It's great if you already know a lot of logic.
Plus, calc 1 was a breeze, calc 2 is where the brain-pain started.
Calc 1: Differentiation up to the Chain Rule, with applications like maximization problems. Basic integration, up to the Substitution Rule.
Calc 2: More-difficult integration techniques (integration by parts, trigonometric substitution, partial-fraction decomposition), infinite series. Most people find Calc 2 the toughest because of the infinite series.
Calc 3: Multivariate calculus, partial derivatives, lots of 3D stuff. Easy, intuitive, spatial.