Anyone here good With Calculus?

[Bud Manley]

Anyone here know how to do Calc? This is the easy stuff. I'm looking to check my answers if your interest is peaked or if your bored and want something to do check it out.

FINAL EXAM PDF

[Ken Talbot]

Ooh, bad flashbacks to tech school and the days of using a circular slide rule. I barely got by then, but this stuff looks like a different language now...

[TopCatGr58]

No thankyou! Calc, and physics were 2 of the 4 courses I was taking the last semester that I attended college 2.5 years worth, along with full time job, dropped out of both , but got "A's" in the other 2 classes....Social Psychology and Advanced Human Biology! Then I joined the Navy!
T.C.

[Bud Manley]

Well, I'm done with Calc now.
I won't get my grade till later this week sometime when he posts it but I'm pretty confident I made that test my bitch.

I'll be extremely disapointed if I get less than 90% on it.

I haven't felt this good about a math test since 4th grade.

[Bud Manley]

Got my test grade back.
An 87. Not the 90 I was hoping for but a B nonetheless.

Although its a B its still the highest score on a math test I've gotten since I was in 4th grade Wayyy back in 1979.
Coincidentley, its the same year my XS was made.

[RS Thornton]

So did you get the extra credit question, I am sure that one was on a midterm i did in 1st year calc way back in 83.

I have 4 text books called "calculus and analytical geometry" I always annoyed the crap out of me that every year a new expensive textbook, and all of the stuff L'Hopital, Gauss and Euler had done hadn't changed since before my professors went to grade school.

congrats on finishing, you will never integrate by parts again!!

[Bud Manley]

Nope, I do know that it uses the method of bisections though.

Actually thats the only question I never got an answer for.

[RS Thornton]

Bud,

I'd be using the Pythagorean Theorem to set up the equation for the distance and then take a derivative, set to zero and solve for x.

think about starting with a circular dot at the point (3,4) and if you slowly made the circle larger and larger until it just touches the curve. At that point a line from the center of the circle at (3,4) to the tangent point is the radius of the circle. the equation for the radiius is:

r^2= delta x^2 + delta y^2

delta x is (x-3) and delta y is (x^2-4)

sub in and r is now a function of X

Find R prime (the derivative is a little messy and I'd use power rule, but hey it's the bonus question so what do you expect). Set R prime to zero and ta-daa

but it is summer and you probably had enough of this.

Regards,

Scott "Fermat's your daddy" Thornton

[Snow]

I got a 'C' in Calc and a 'D' in Calc2...which I will be repeating next year :/

[MAXIMAN]

I actually made "A"s in calculus. There are a couple varieties. The garden variety business calc and the "FUN" variety...engineering calc. As a geology major we obviously had to take two semesters of engineering calculus and analytical trigonometry. In addition we were require to take two semesters of multivariate statistical analysis. ---->puke1

I'm certain Mr. Manley knows this, but the calculus was invented by Sir Isaac Newton. He could not define planetary physics and orbital theories via algebraic methods. Algebra deals with simple rates of change like speed.

He needed a mathematical system to definite the rate of a RATE. Think acceleration. Speed (velocity) is a simple rate....being unit length per unit time. Acceleration deals with unit length per unit time squared...or the rate at which a rate changes.

As you well know this is fundemental to the sport of drag racing. It "ain't" about speed. It IS about acceleration...or how quickly one can get from 0 to 150 mph.

Glad to hear you did well. Just think...now you have the fun stuff to look forward to... differential equations and maybe even matrix algebra. -------> again I say ...puke!

[trbig]

Back in school, I hated math... (Actually still do.. lol) After algebra started, I just figured I'd never use this crap in real life, and lost interest. Now that I survey and have to use the stuff every day... I'm kicking myself. But you still lost me after the Sine-Cosine-tangent stuff! LOL.. that's about the only english I saw in that foreign language! Get deep enough into that stuff, and you could prove that 2+2 doesn't always make 4! Congrats on the grade.

Tod