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Newby:
--- Quote from: deadly7 on December 18, 2009, 03:02:01 am ---
--- Quote from: Falcon on December 18, 2009, 02:11:08 am ---Differential equations.... have fun Newby lol
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If his diffEQ class was anything like the one for which I took a final today, that class is a joke. Rather than get into any theory as to how to describe a relationship and why the differential is what it is, you take for granted that the diffeq is what they give you and you go about solving it.
Snooze.Fest.
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If the professor is anything like fall quarter's professor... we'll be all theory, little application.
And I'm surprised you commented on the diffeq versus the QM... lol.
deadly7:
--- Quote from: Newby on December 18, 2009, 06:05:46 am ---If the professor is anything like fall quarter's professor... we'll be all theory, little application.
And I'm surprised you commented on the diffeq versus the QM... lol.
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Well mine was an IT-based math class, so they wanted us to learn how to solve them. I don't know how UC-Davis works but you'd probably encounter the same at any institution that has separate IT math classes.
Haven't taken QM. *Hate* physics. Learning the concept of why something works how it does is fine. From what I've seen in physics they love abusing math though.
Newby:
--- Quote from: deadly7 on December 18, 2009, 10:43:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Newby on December 18, 2009, 06:05:46 am ---If the professor is anything like fall quarter's professor... we'll be all theory, little application.
And I'm surprised you commented on the diffeq versus the QM... lol.
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Well mine was an IT-based math class, so they wanted us to learn how to solve them. I don't know how UC-Davis works but you'd probably encounter the same at any institution that has separate IT math classes.
Haven't taken QM. *Hate* physics. Learning the concept of why something works how it does is fine. From what I've seen in physics they love abusing math though.
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It's all concepts thus far in honors. In fact, they give us formula sheets just to prove it's the concepts that'll get ya, not the formulas.
zorm:
--- Quote from: deadly7 on December 18, 2009, 03:02:01 am ---If his diffEQ class was anything like the one for which I took a final today, that class is a joke. Rather than get into any theory as to how to describe a relationship and why the differential is what it is, you take for granted that the diffeq is what they give you and you go about solving it. We learned two general ways to solve diffeqs (laplace transforms and the "assume a solution" method) and then various subsects of them.
Snooze.Fest.
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This is pretty much how my diff eq. class was, except we had Fourier series in there too. Partial diff eq. which I just took ended up being much more of the same, assume and solution and then turn the crank on the problem.
And having a formula sheet doesn't mean its concepts based... in my PDE class we were given a "generously provided reference" sheet with solutions to everything.
Ergot:
CS61BL: Data Structures and Programming Methodology
CS70: Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory
Physics 7C: Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Electromagnetic waves, optics, relativity, and quantum physics.)
Psych 130: Clinical Psychology
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