Inspired by a page in a shitty textbook, I felt inspired to write a calculus journal. (http://www.keypress.com/documents/ALookInside/Calculus/Calculus_SE_Ch01.pdf)
Yesterday, I reviewed using the first derivative test to find relative extrema on a closed interval. I wanted to try it with trig functions, but my teacher has not went over the derivatives of the trigonometric functions. I should get to know them today.
Quote from: KEEEEN LEEEE on March 28, 2008, 04:31:58 PM
...but my teacher has not went over the derivatives of the trigonometric functions.
whuh doodthing;
Quote from: Commodore Guff on March 28, 2008, 04:43:42 PM
whuh doodthing;
Yes, my teacher uses this text that introduces it late in the course.
Quote from: KEEEEN LEEEE on March 28, 2008, 06:09:04 PM
Yes, my teacher uses this text that introduces it late in the course.
have you at least gone over exponentials and logarithms doodthing;
Quote from: Commodore Guff on March 29, 2008, 07:57:34 AM
have you at least gone over exponentials and logarithms doodthing;
I know the properties of them, but not the calculus. How the textbook is structured, we learn the basics of differentiation and integration first with polynomials and some other elementary functions, and then we do the calculus with the transcendental functions. The course is a high school level calculus course, so it's not really difficult.
Quote from: KEEEEN LEEEE on March 29, 2008, 09:00:36 AM
I know the properties of them, but not the calculus. How the textbook is structured, we learn the basics of differentiation and integration first with polynomials and some other elementary functions, and then we do the calculus with the transcendental functions.
sounds silly doodthing;
my class of course started differentiation with polynomials, but then went on to the others
same with integration
the thing is, though, we never actually learned
how to find the derivatives of the transcendentals, we were just told what they are which was stupid
eventually i read a textbook that showed how to differentiate a logarithm of arbitrary base and from there you can derive just about all the others with implicit differentiation
I've decided to withdraw from AP Calculus next year due to the teacher being abrasive on me.
I'm now trying to figure out where I should learn my further calculus studies. doodthing;
Quote from: Felt Reborn on April 02, 2008, 03:04:20 PM
I'm now trying to figure out where I should learn my further calculus studies. doodthing;
i've heard tales of wandering vagabonds hopping from train car to train car with nothing but the shirts on their backs and advanced to intermediate calculus texts
Quote from: Commodore Guff on April 02, 2008, 04:13:23 PM
i've heard tales of wandering vagabonds hopping from train car to train car with nothing but the shirts on their backs and advanced to intermediate calculus texts
I should learn the calculus myself. Thanks for inspiring me. doodthing;
Don't you boring bastards have anything more interesting to talk about?
Quote from: Title on April 02, 2008, 04:41:28 PM
Don't you boring bastards have anything more interesting to talk about?
What kind of language is this?
What kind of language is this?
I canââ,¬â,,˘t hear a word youââ,¬â,,˘re saying
Tell me what are you singing
Quote from: Title on April 02, 2008, 04:41:28 PM
Don't you boring bastards have anything more interesting to talk about?
NO YOU FOOL DON'T YOU SEE
calculus is beautiful :'(
Today, I found a solution for my future calculus education: distance learning after school. What extra courses should I take instead of AP Calculus? I'm thinking two years of Latin.
Quote from: Felt Reborn on April 03, 2008, 06:20:14 PM
Today, I found a solution for my future calculus education: distance learning after school. What extra courses should I take instead of AP Calculus? I'm thinking two years of Latin.
complex analysis
I just learned antidifferentiation/indefinite integration/another silly name for working backwards. My only problem with this is that I cannot write the integral sign correctly.
Quote from: Felt Reborn on April 08, 2008, 04:39:00 PM
My only problem with this is that I cannot write the integral sign correctly.
It's a tricky little bastard. baddood;
I've mastered its smooth curves, but sigma notation still never fails to come out looking uneven.
Quote from: Commodore Guff on April 08, 2008, 05:38:25 PM
It's a tricky little bastard. baddood;
I've mastered its smooth curves, but sigma notation still never fails to come out looking uneven.
My radicals and my non-reform notation for division look like the same.
also something something about position functions something something something
I learned something Friday: seniors do not know what sigma notation is.
Quote from: Felt Reborn on April 13, 2008, 01:43:27 PM
I learned something Friday: seniors do not know what sigma notation is.
why not
Quote from: JMV on April 13, 2008, 03:06:32 PM
because they dont spend all day on wikipedia
i figured either that or because they're not taught it doodthing;
Today, we continued our study of definite integrals. On a side note, my teacher wants me to stop asking her questions and to encourage child literacy by making me read the textbook.
Quote from: Felt Reborn on April 16, 2008, 03:16:03 PM
On a side note, my teacher wants me to stop asking her questions...
you should be ashamed of yourself baddood;
Quote from: Commodore Guff on April 16, 2008, 04:04:37 PM
you should be ashamed of yourself baddood;
Yes, I should. doodthing;
Finding areas under curves using the method of exhaustion can be confusing though. doodthing;
Quote from: Felt Reborn on April 16, 2008, 04:31:35 PM
Finding areas under curves using the method of exhaustion can be confusing though. doodthing;
why would you do that doodthing;
What the fuck is going on in here?
Quote from: V on April 16, 2008, 07:57:49 PM
What the fuck is going on in here?
occult rituals and a tupperware party
Quote from: Commodore Guff on April 16, 2008, 04:46:01 PM
why would you do that doodthing;
I don't know, I guess they love using rectangles to approximate areas under curves in my textbook. doodthing; That's why I'm glad they have the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to evaluate definite integrals.
Quote from: Felt Reborn on April 17, 2008, 03:55:42 PM
I don't know, I guess they love using rectangles to approximate areas under curves in my textbook. doodthing;
wow, that's almost not entirely useless doodthing;
Quote from: Commodore Guff on April 17, 2008, 04:48:52 PM
wow, that's almost not entirely useless doodthing;
It's really silly to use it only on polynomials. doodthing;
Oh, I'm also drafting my English paper on the history of calculus. I hate research papers. baddood;
i'm so unfocused i can't find my thesis statement
Calculus is the study of change. It allows us to solve problems that algebra alone wouldnââ,¬â,,˘t solve. For example, with algebra you can only find the average rate of change from point A to B. With the tools of differential calculus, we can find the rate of change at an instant. The mathematics behind calculus was developed over centuries, starting from the Greeks to the 17th century. Two men, Issac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, put all these ideas into fruition. The two men were involved in a bitter dispute over who developed calculus. Today, Newton and Leibniz are both credited as independent developers of calculus.
Quote from: Commodore Guff on April 17, 2008, 12:10:32 PM
occult rituals and a tupperware party
tupperware party always meant dildo party. i never understood it