Basically I have a test friday on series and I don't know a damn thing about them. I know that's my fault, but just teach me everything about series, or point me to sites that explain how to do it with relative clarity. Textbooks don't help because they're all WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS.
Help.
i can't do numbers :(
Quote from: Socks on November 18, 2009, 01:16:23 PM
i can't do numbers :(
Good news! Calculus is mostly letters from
two different alphabets!
Quote from: Man of Popsicle on November 18, 2009, 01:17:03 PM
Good news! Calculus is mostly letters from two different alphabets!
i cant do numbers with letters either :(
Just use the textbook sheesh.
EDIT: Or at least give us examples and specific topics from the book so we can help you understand it.
i can't do math
i bet socks is better at it than I am n___n
I'm not kidding when I say I need to learn everything.
What are the different kinds of series? What are the equations I need to know? What are the methods to solving them? You don't have to go in depth I just need enough to do fairly well on a quiz.
And again, if you even know of a site that can teach me this, that would be good too. I just need to learn this.
Quote from: Man of Popsicle on November 19, 2009, 02:29:21 PM
I'm not kidding when I say I need to learn everything.
What are the different kinds of series? What are the equations I need to know? What are the methods to solving them? You don't have to go in depth I just need enough to do fairly well on a quiz.
And again, if you even know of a site that can teach me this, that would be good too. I just need to learn this.
What kind of series? Series of infinite rectangles to find area? Power series to represent functions based on chains of antiderivatives?
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 19, 2009, 02:32:50 PM
What kind of series? Series of infinite rectangles to find area? Power series to represent functions based on chains of antiderivatives?
Chapter 12: Infinite sequences and series
I know she was teaching power series but it all went over my head so just start there because I know that will be there.
Sections in the chapter are sequences, series, integral test and estimates of sums, comparison tests, alternating series, absolute convergence and the ratio and root tests, strategy for testing series, power series, representations of functions as a power series, taylor and maclaurin series, applications of taylor polynomials.
Do what you can.
Quote from: Man of Popsicle on November 19, 2009, 02:37:32 PM
Chapter 12: Infinite sequences and series
I know she was teaching power series but it all went over my head so just start there because I know that will be there.
Sections in the chapter are sequences, series, integral test and estimates of sums, comparison tests, alternating series, absolute convergence and the ratio and root tests, strategy for testing series, power series, representations of functions as a power series, taylor and maclaurin series, applications of taylor polynomials.
Do what you can.
I'm tired, so instead I'm going to tell you the tool that got my classmates through what was an essentally self-taught calculus class: MIT OCW.
Watch these videos while taking serious notes:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-01Fall-2006/VideoLectures/detail/embed37.htm
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-01Fall-2006/VideoLectures/detail/embed38.htm
And revel in the fact that you now know what the fuck is going on.
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 19, 2009, 02:46:57 PM
I'm tired, so instead I'm going to tell you the tool that got my classmates through what was an essentally self-taught calculus class: MIT OCW.
Watch these videos while taking serious notes:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-01Fall-2006/VideoLectures/detail/embed37.htm
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-01Fall-2006/VideoLectures/detail/embed38.htm
And revel in the fact that you now know what the fuck is going on.
I love you but he just went off for a second about higher mathematics in the first video about when 1 is not greater than 0 and my head exploded so I think I'm done.
[spoiler]not really. this is actually pretty damn helpful[/spoiler]
Quote from: Man of Popsicle on November 18, 2009, 01:17:03 PM
Good news! Calculus is mostly letters from two different alphabets!
But those letters represent numbers.
So even though I was sort of prepared today, it turns out the test is on Tuesday. HILARIOUS!
At least I have time to adequately prepare.
Are you using the Larson textbook?
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on November 20, 2009, 01:23:20 PM
Are you using the Larson textbook?
My textbook says it was written by James Stewart. I've never heard of a single-author textbook before. Odd.
Quote from: Man of Popsicle on November 20, 2009, 04:05:50 PM
My textbook says it was written by James Stewart. I've never heard of a single-author textbook before. Odd.
There were a thousand ghostwriters, believe you me. Anyway, keep watchin' those vids.
Ask felt, he loves posting ab out math.
Quote from: Hank Hill on November 21, 2009, 01:18:03 AM
Ask felt, he loves posting ab out math.
He's helped me immensely in the past but I swear whenever he talks to me it's HEY HERE'S A MATH PROBLEM WANNA DO IT BECAUSE IT'S FUN LOL and it's like ok cool he likes math and that's great but holy shit it's all he ever talks about.
He's been talking to me a lot about multivariable calc recently, which is frustrating because I don't know it. I'd be happy to dive into things once we really get into things, but right now we're just reviewing vectors and stuff. :/
Also: I think I wrote an extraordinarily elegant program in BASIC to do the cross product of any dimension (I don't care that it's only defined for 3 and 7).
ClrList L2
Input "VECTOR=", L1
dim(L1)->B
If dim(L1)=2
stop
List>matr(L1, [C])
2->Q
While Q<B-1
Input "VECTOR=", L1
List>matr(L1, [D])
augment([C],[D]) -> [C]
Q+1 -> Q
End
Disp [C][sup]T[/sup]
For(Z,1,B,1)
seq(0,U,1,B)-> L1
1 -> L1(Z)
List>matr(L1, [E])
det(augment([E],[C])[sup]T[/sup]) -> L2(Z)
End
Quote from: Man of Popsicle on November 21, 2009, 01:20:13 AMit's like ok cool he likes math and that's great but holy shit it's all he ever talks about.
Sometimes he talks about Disneyland or gay bears.