Calculus

[Leader]

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What don't you understand? What have you done so far? Are you doing integration yet or just derivatives?

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People do integration in Calc I in some schools?

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I never took calc I in college. I took AP calc in HS and passed out of I and II.

[CheckRaise]

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What don't you understand? What have you done so far? Are you doing integration yet or just derivatives?

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People do integration in Calc I in some schools?

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Yes I did, we also did vector stuff in Calc II which I don't believe is standard.

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People still take Calc 1 in college?

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Some of us were slackers in HS and didn't take AP classes.

[Amerzel]

The Complete Idiots Guide to Calculus
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Gu...6163153?ie=UTF8

Believe it or not it actually does a great job teaching Calculus. I'm using it as a recommended supplement to my textbook and I am finding it very handy.

Amerzel

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I'll look for that book tomorrow thx.

yeah, I basically got behind and it's kicking my ass right now.

[lippy]

I wouldn't start new threads, but if you post questions that are really stumping you I'm sure one of us will go through the problem for you.

[evank15]

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Calculus 4 is significantly easier than Calculus 1, at least in terms of the grades I managed in them.

Get a tutor.

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Calc 4 is touted as the hardest course offered at my university. I don't know if it actually is, but that's what they say. I suppose it is the hardest mainstream class (interdepartmental), as opposed to something like advanced quantum mechanics, which only physics students would take.

And fwiw, my calc 1 class had integration, my calc 2 class had power series, and we didn't touch vector calculus until calc 3.

I have my calc4 midterm on wednesday. Ugh. Sets of zero content, implicit function theorem, boundaries, Stokes' theorem, blah blah blah. And what's even funnier is that our teacher is omitting a section, and that section happens to be div/curl and its application to physics, something I'm actually good at! Something about an "unfair advantage" for the physics students. Total bs.

[pkr2k5]

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The Complete Idiots Guide to Calculus
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Gu...6163153?ie=UTF8

Believe it or not it actually does a great job teaching Calculus. I'm using it as a recommended supplement to my textbook and I am finding it very handy.

Amerzel

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What year in calculus did this book help you for? I'm in calc 3 (titled 'calculus in three dimensions')
and its kicking my ass, is this limited to the typical first year of calc in college or what?

[thedarknight]

i've never really heard of calc 4,but i've seen advanced calculus..from my understanding I thought Calc 4 was just DFQ..differential equations.

[MelchyBeau]

I took calc 1 in college. We didn't have AP classes at our school.

Now I have fallen into the black hole that is grad school in math