I've been attempting to hold off on doing this, but it really would be great if I could run a question or two past some of you from time to time. You see, I happen to currently be at a community college (it was close, and offering free books and tuition for 2 years and with the sort of access to money I have it would have been hard to turn up). The problem is that I'm more or less taking it independent study.
This isn't a new experience. Calc II conflicted with a course that the university I want to transfer to deemed necessary. I took that under a system where I read through the book and worked through the problems myself, and took tests in a testing center. I managed to do decently in Calc II, but the study aids I used when working through the homework (mainly Wolfram|Alpha) to get a better understanding of how to work a problem from time to time when I ran into a wall aren't working as well for the subjects in Calc III (which I'm similarly having to take under an independent study sort of system).
I do still have my professor to ask questions when necessary, but I'd really appreciate it if from time to time I could ask one of you for some help, especially at times when I can't get a hold of him, though I certainly don't want to impose.
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He wasn't there again today. Oh how I wish he'd go away.
I would happily take such questions, although my calculus has gotten rusty. I'm very fond of analysis, which is concerned with much the same topics, but it involves little computation per se, so one tends to get foggy on the details of trigonometric substitution and the like.
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"You blockhead!" -Cheez
I would, but I never took Calc III. I guess I came in here to really say, don't be too shy... PMS is full of helpful people and I'm sure nobody considers you an imposition.
Alright, thank you!
I actually did have a problem right now, but as I was typing it up and explaining the approach I had taken which had failed to result in a correct answer, I noticed an error in how I had worked the problem, which when resolved, made everything fall into place. But I'm glad to know that I can come here in the future with such problems.
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He wasn't there again today. Oh how I wish he'd go away.
I could help. I'm a math teaching assistant (for geometry...which is only three years before calc III, right?) for an accelerated learning program at the U of Minnesota. I also took calc III through the program. Honestly, if you survived calc II you shouldn't have too many problems with III.
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I would say that I would help, but Calc III is the one course I don't seem to remember much about. Calc II, sure, Calc IV, I did great, Calc III....
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Calc III is always the outlier because all of the stuff in there gets shunted aside.
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x is an irrational number if and only if the set { nx mod 1 | n is a natural number } is dense in [0,1].
I took the history of Math in college >_>
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I'm not exactly sure what topics Call III will cover, but I should be able to help with anything up to multi-variable calc, although I'm not expert at it.
So yeah, come to us with anything you need!
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I did AP Calc in high school and did really well and placed into UW's Calc 3 for my first quarter there, where I busted my ass because I jumped into a class that had foundational material that I had literally never learned how to do. I look through the notes that I took in that class and wonder how on earth I ever knew how to do the stuff in that I did by the end of it, because I don't think I remember how to anymore.
Thus, I will be unhelpful yet supportive in this topic.
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From: Jacehan | Posted: 9/19/2010 9:56:15 PM | #006
…Calc IV…
Up until this point, I thought I was on the same page as everyone with respect to the numbering scheme, but I've never heard of a fourth calculus class. In my experience, Calculus I is an introduction to differentiation and integration, Calc II discusses more integration techniques along with applications of differentiation to limits and series, and Calc III is about vectors. What then generally appears in a fourth course?
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"You blockhead!" -Cheez
According to my Uni's website, it is "a basic introduction to differential equations."
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In my experience, anything beyond calc III is subjective and can mean almost any kind of higher math, even if it has nothing to do with calculus.
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