For the Math Impaired: The definition of a Derivative

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Volingatorland said:
I feel a new thread stemming from this:

Volingatorland's "let me learn you something today" thread.
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OrangeEmpire said:
Yeah, the thread would be those people who live in their parents basement and crunch numbers.......
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Volingatorland said:
lol I love Calculus, it's probably one of my favorite classes, actually one of the reasons I'm changing from biochemistry to Chemical Engineering. However, I have not yet reached integration, but will soon. We are currently covering critical numbers and extrema. My purpose of this post was to explain a little what a derivative was mathematically, not practically. That's the reason I left out implicit differentiation and the likes.
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Double integration and partial differentiation are pretty interesting. I wouldn't get too excited about lin alg, though. That class was awful...not to mention (as an engineer), anything past the first month in that class, you'll probably never see again. n-dimensional spaces and all that crap.

My favorite math classes were probably Differential Equations and Calc 3. Calc 3 is so easy compared to 2 (integration).

I took Linear about 1.5 years ago, and the most I've used it is in this class I'm taking now called Analysis - ME391.

Anyways, good look with Chemical!
 
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wbailey7 said:
Double integration and partial differentiation are pretty interesting. I wouldn't get too excited about lin alg, though. That class was awful...not to mention (as an engineer), anything past the first month in that class, you'll probably never see again. n-dimensional spaces and all that crap.

My favorite math classes were probably Differential Equations and Calc 3. Calc 3 is so easy compared to 2 (integration).

I took Linear about 1.5 years ago, and the most I've used it is in this class I'm taking now called Analysis - ME391.

Anyways, good look with Chemical!
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agreed on the linear algebra. Eigen Values and matrices don't have a helluva lot to do with chem.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
agreed on the linear algebra. Eigen Values and matrices don't have a helluva lot to do with chem.
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LUD, Eigenvalues, and n-dimensional vectorspaces....those were my least favorite parts.

I don't know if anyone has taken an abstract math course, but it's as equally awful.

I'll never forget this, because it was the day I changed from Math to Mechanical Engineering, but we spent the better part of class defining functions using Venn diagrams (from English class), and I asked myself...what in the hell is the point?

Best decision I've ever made :)
 
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wbailey7 said:
LUD, Eigenvalues, and n-dimensional vectorspaces....those were my least favorite parts.

I don't know if anyone has taken an abstract math course, but it's as equally awful.

I'll never forget this, because it was the day I changed from Math to Mechanical Engineering, but we spent the better part of class defining functions using Venn diagrams (from English class), and I asked myself...what in the hell is the point?

Best decision I've ever made :)
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Yeah, I'm not looking forward to lin. alg.

I have calc 2 over the summer, then my first official class at UT is Calc 3. I know those will be interesting.
 
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Volingatorland said:
Yeah, I'm not looking forward to lin. alg.

I have calc 2 over the summer, then my first official class at UT is Calc 3. I know those will be interesting.
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Take Xia Chen if you can (for Calc 3). He is amazing! And....avoid John Long at all costs.
 
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wbailey7 said:
LUD, Eigenvalues, and n-dimensional vectorspaces....those were my least favorite parts.

I don't know if anyone has taken an abstract math course, but it's as equally awful.

I'll never forget this, because it was the day I changed from Math to Mechanical Engineering, but we spent the better part of class defining functions using Venn diagrams (from English class), and I asked myself...what in the hell is the point?

Best decision I've ever made :)
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When I went back to school and got my Masters to teach high school level math, I had to take a class in non-euclidean geometry to fulfill a requirement (My BS was in ME.) Talk about some funky abstract stuff...

5 years later, I cannot even describe what the material was about.
 
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