Struggling with unisa calculus

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Patty

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Does anybody know of a reputable place on a budget that does extra university maths lessons in Jozi?
 
My place, if you're female and hot :) Otherwise, uhm, I can only think of forming study groups or scheduling an appointment with the lecturer.
 
You could try mathhelpboards.com for specific problems you're struggling with. They don't do lectures or do your homework for you, but they will explain a problem to you if you show some effort too, and they're all pretty clued up.
 
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Kitty09 said:
I'm an UNISA student too :) I passed Calculus last year (85%).

Calculus is not that hard, actually. If your basic algebra/trigonometric background is weak, then you will definitely find Calculus so difficult. That's it.

Hope the following links will help you understand a lot of Calculus concepts.

A Gentle Introduction To Learning Calculus

http://betterexplained.com/articles/category/math/calculus/

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/

http://www.khanacademy.org/
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We can see from your sig that you're really proud knowing the chain rule for e^x :)

@OP: Post here, some of us are good at it as Kitty mentioned.
 
UnUnOctium said:
We can see from your sig that you're really proud knowing the chain rule for e^x :)

@OP: Post here, some of us are good at it as Kitty mentioned.
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Chain Rule is easy :D

The most difficult maths module I have ever taken - Numerical Methods 1. It's tougher than Calculus 1 and 2, seriously.
 
Patty said:
Does anybody know of a reputable place on a budget that does extra university maths lessons in Jozi?
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If you want a good book, try Engineering Mathematics by K A Stroud. It is written in a programme learning style so it leads you through step by step and has plenty of examples and tests as you go along. Perfect for those of us who aren't naturals at maths. It was required reading for all the engineering and physics courses when I was at uni and has several chapters on calculus.
 
Bar0n said:
Even though it's a horrible form of writing the n-th derivations of it, when n > 2 :p
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Indeed, more appropriately: d[SUP](n)[/SUP]/dx[SUP]n[/SUP] (e[SUP]x[/SUP]) = e[SUP]x[/SUP] for n E N[SUB]0[/SUB]
Kitty09 said:
Chain Rule is easy :D

The most difficult maths module I have ever taken - Numerical Methods 1. It's tougher than Calculus 1 and 2, seriously.
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Can't be that bad, newton-raphson and searching, gg. In engineering I found all of them easy except sequences and series, for some reason I struggled with that one but IMO the mathematics subjects were not the difficult bit by any means.
 
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Kitty09 said:
The most difficult maths module I have ever taken - Numerical Methods 1.
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That's easy, basically just a bunch of algorithms. PDEs and Abstract Algebra is where it starts getting a bit tricky.
 
UnUnOctium said:
Indeed, more appropriately: d[SUP](n)[/SUP]/dx[SUP]n[/SUP] (e[SUP]x[/SUP]) = e[SUP]x[/SUP] for n E N[SUB]0[/SUB]


Can't be that bad, newton-raphson and searching, gg. In engineering I found all of them easy except sequences and series, for some reason I struggled with that one but IMO the mathematics subjects were not the difficult bit by any means.
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That's the easiest stuff (root-finding techniques). The ones I'm still trying to figure out how they work - The Jacobi/Gauss-Seidel (including one of its variants - SOR relaxation) Iterative techniques (they are used to find the true solution of the system of linear equations iteratively starting with some initial vector X).
 
khan academy is excelent to understand the basics.

Thanks kitty09 for http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/

I always did terribly with math in school. Once I changed my attitude towards it, I now look forward to those 8am math lectures. :P
 
Matric maths happened 17 years ago.

I wonder if I'd make it if I tried to continue where I hoped I had left it dead and buried.
 
Kitty09 said:
That's the easiest stuff (root-finding techniques). The ones I'm still trying to figure out how they work - The Jacobi/Gauss-Seidel (including one of its variants - SOR relaxation) Iterative techniques (they are used to find the true solution of the system of linear equations iteratively starting with some initial vector X).
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that are just as easy, you just need to know how to work out the 'spilry' (I think the english is a pivot row or point or something like that). I found iterative methods more boring than anything else, it is basically get the formula apply etc. proving them can be a bit of a trick.
 
samr1wp said:
and how does this help you when you work :p
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That's ridiculous. Being able to browse the internet thanks to protocols that rely on graph theory, proper encryption and memory management with algebra, being able to play 3D games using linear algebra, etc... All this relies on mathematics. Every single thing you work with everyday is the result of the major sciences: mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Viewing a .jpg, (good quality and small filesize) is the result of mathematics and probably months of research.

To simply dismiss the sciences because the only thing you do all day is punch numbers into a calculator - or lick stamps or something - is pathetic.
 
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