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. ;)
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.