ARG! i have a calc 2 midterm tomorrow!!!!! i really despise calculus. remembering all these tan,cos,sin,sec,ect... is so annoying an tedious. needed to vent anger of calc.
+1 million. I hate integrals. Please change one little bit of it and make it a completely different problem. <== Glad I never have to take another math class.
i thought i was done after calc 1, 2yrs ago but nope i got suckered in for another round of hell. you guys have any secrets for mastering parametric eqns and converting polar coords to cartesian?
I forget what parametric equations are. But for polar coords: soh-cah-toa and a^2+b^2=c^2 are your friend. you have an angle and a length which just translates to the hypotenuse of a triangle. That's all I got.
Why in the world are you doing that in Calc II I haven't seen that yet and I passed it last year at umd.
does your prof allow a small cheat sheets? otherwise, a graphing calculator and programmable memory are your friend.
thats kinda weird. its ch10 in our calc book. we busted out of intergrals and into parametric eqns and polar coords. no cheat sheets, and no graphing calcs :-( i wish i could use my Ti-86, but instead i am using a financial calculator :eep: i know! thats why this is so painful. if it was something useful it would be better, but since i will never use this again its worthless.
BOOOO! I did my whole engineering degree with this bad boy! Order of operations FTW!! By the way, if any of you guys got one of this things sitting around I want it.
which one was calcII? eh no matter, all i use now is linear algebra and differential equations (although now i do all that with laplace transforms).
That was a bad a$$ claculator. I know it isn't that old, but I kind of feel like that calculator is the Nintendo of calculators. Never broke, everyone had one, and I "sure" everyone still loves them. As far as calc II goes... TI-89 is almost cheating, but use it if they let you. You still have to show your work, but you can at least know what the answer is and work towards that. Plus, you'll have one when you start working, so if you can solve the problem with the calculators assistance, you are set if you ever need it in the real world.... wait, is there such thing as a real world were you do calc II on a regular basis....hmmmm... hell is the only place I can think of
BUMP! i got another calc midterm tommorow and i dont wanna study. lol same situation as last time. hopefuly it works out the same way. last midterm i got a 94% on. maybe this thread is good luck.
yeah but you most likely didnt have to memorize the taylor series for sin,cos,tan-1,e^x, ln x, ect.... just messing with ya. how did thermo go? was the test endothermic or exothermic?
^ i wish, we cant use graphing calculators or calculators which can store text. so i am stuck using a financial calculator :eep:
^ yeah, i took calc 1 at NHCC. i could use a graphing calculator there, and it was great. i wish i had taken calc II right after i took calc 1, but i figured i was done with math. and then i changed majors :-(
Martin, your final will be the worst...trust me...I think its like 3 hrs on 4 problems? LOL I remenber those days....
i think it went alright, coulda used another half hour but, i got stuff down for mostly everything. the test was on the 2nd law of thermo, entropy, gas cycles (otto, diese, Braytonl) and vapor cycles (Rankin). there was questions on engine knock, i better have aced that ****. im pretty happy with it, since several people i talked to said they hardly got anywhere on some of the questions. but yea, i paid my dues on the calc crap, and unlike the others, i thought calc 3 was way worse than 1 or 2, but then again, i did have a year and a half gap between, 2 and 3.
^ i have a 1.5 year gap between 1 and 2, so it blows. the test went alright. i did not get in as much studying as i would have liked. but i think i did alrgiht. it was mostly on taylor and maclaurin series. there was some stuff on finding eqns for spheres too (easy stuff). i hope i did alright, i think having a can of vault before the exma got me thinking.
