The course looks hard, but half of the more complicated crap will never show up on an exam. The profs just like scaring you into thinking you actually need to calculate the derivative of the hyperbolic cosine, or some crap like that.
Also, GET THE OLD EXAMS! They can be hard to find, but people usually manage to find them, and they usually follow the same format from year to year.
HAHAHA so true NukeChem. They teach you all the complicated stuff and long way to do things then they...here's the easier way to solve this question. They totally mess with you! But jokes aside its good to know the foundations behind questions if you really wanna do well and make sure you do practice everyday and you should be fine.
Sorry to hi-jack the thread but to those who have finished the course or have experience with how the curving/scaling works. How does it work usually in the calc classes?? In my class the average atm is 55-60% and I am getting around 48% *sigh. Both the midterm's averages were pretty consistent so I'm guessing the Final will be the same too, so does anyone know how the marks would be scaled if the class avg stays arond the same?
i think it was two classes ago, Prof J said he's not scaling the marks because the average is right where he expects it to be (or maybe he's just not scaling the midterms, now I'm not sure)
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Speaking of curving, if you're used to business curving, don't worry. Science curving rewards the lazy, not the cuttthroat.
Here's why: Assume that your mark on an exam is about 60%, and you and everybody else did a half-ass job of studying. Well, if the average is 55%, you just scaled up to a B.
Proof? I suck at the theoretical crap in linear algebra (MATH 232). Don't ask me what a polynomial space is because I have NFC. I know how to calculate determinants, inverses, do matrix row operations, reduce matrices using the Gauss-Jordan elimination and do eigenstuff. That's probably half the course material.
Guess what, I got a 57% in the course and scaled myself a B- because everybody else did an equally crap job in the course.
PS. If you are planning anything at all to do with quantum mechanics, learn the eigenstuff in MATH 232. It will be a pain, but it will pay out rewards for a long time to come. :)
One of the reasons why is that you pick up some tricks that will help you figure out if you're "doing it right" or not. It turns out that any symmetric matrix always has mutually orthogonal eigenvectors, and in quantum mechanics this turns out to be true when you extend the vector space to include imaginary numbers. :)
Another thing is appreciating the physical significance of the eigenstuff - what you're doing is rotating the axes of your coordinate system onto at least one of the vectors you're playing around with. This is what diagonalizing the moment of inertia tensor in physics does, for example.
I hope I pass 151, I'm pretty worried about that at the moment. My gpa is pretty solid atm so I'm not worried about going on AP/Dropping out but does a fail or 2 in your first couple of years affect your chances of getting into a graduate program? I'm hoping this class won't screw me over too badly if I fail =s
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Also, GET THE OLD EXAMS! They can be hard to find, but people usually manage to find them, and they usually follow the same format from year to year.
so above that u should be in the B range, and below that C range etc
and if ur at the tail end, then ur gettin A or D's and Fs
it depends how the curve is, but a 48 off a 55-60 avg, would b c- range im guessin.. depends on how the disribution of the class scores is tho
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Here's why: Assume that your mark on an exam is about 60%, and you and everybody else did a half-ass job of studying. Well, if the average is 55%, you just scaled up to a B.
Proof? I suck at the theoretical crap in linear algebra (MATH 232). Don't ask me what a polynomial space is because I have NFC. I know how to calculate determinants, inverses, do matrix row operations, reduce matrices using the Gauss-Jordan elimination and do eigenstuff. That's probably half the course material.
Guess what, I got a 57% in the course and scaled myself a B- because everybody else did an equally crap job in the course.
PS. If you are planning anything at all to do with quantum mechanics, learn the eigenstuff in MATH 232. It will be a pain, but it will pay out rewards for a long time to come. :)
One of the reasons why is that you pick up some tricks that will help you figure out if you're "doing it right" or not. It turns out that any symmetric matrix always has mutually orthogonal eigenvectors, and in quantum mechanics this turns out to be true when you extend the vector space to include imaginary numbers. :)
Another thing is appreciating the physical significance of the eigenstuff - what you're doing is rotating the axes of your coordinate system onto at least one of the vectors you're playing around with. This is what diagonalizing the moment of inertia tensor in physics does, for example.
End math geekage. :P