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Re: The Homework

Honeybunny — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:26:24 -0000

http://i34.tinypic.com/qrc6...
(Illustrated answer for pinkpau's question if anyone was curious. )

Just like having sex... the moment you fill yourself with despair and dissatisfaction of course you won't be able to solve the math problem... you go down the slippery mental slope.

Calm down and focus... things really aren't that hard once you take the despair out of the equation. o.o

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mei yueh — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:18:51 -0000

I hate my math textbook as well. I'm using James Stewart. And I can't use calculator here, no formula sheet, weird definition questions as homework and yes, I'm starting to hate math. =(

I'm running to my TA for help (tomorrow) and if can't... I'll run to my math tutor in my residence.

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sheon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:11:03 -0000

hahahaha.....i dare you not to step foot in KL Pavilion!!! and not use KL Putrajaya Highway!!! ahahha

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Grace Ong — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:28:36 -0000

eh calculus is fun wat! although i really shouldn't be saying this since i don't get to do math anymore. bah, majors.

that looks like exactly the kind of stuff i got while doing intro calc in cimp@sunway. fun fun fun fun fun. haha. stay strong su ann :D

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Rachelle — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:32:05 -0000

*pats back* I totally totally understand.
Stupid stupid Calculus. Heck, I even wrote an epic poem for it!
I took it last year, during senior year of high school and err.. didn't work out very well. As in, it was the first class I ever flunked. -__-lll Needless to say, it made me weep and get all stressed out too.
Get those Sparknotes or Calculus for Dummies (haha oxymoron much?) books, they might help a teeny bit. =) All the best though! Gambate! I cannot wait till I'll have to endure Calc again..

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anne — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:31:23 -0000

i used to do calculus in pre-u.
i tot i got over it, and now i need calculus in quantitative analysis and econometrics. (in the end we just use computer softwares to do it! life is so easy with technology can?)
it's quite useful to get the hang of basic calculus knowledge. =))
it's fun...and challenging.

btw, isn't it we use differentiation to get the slope of a line tangent to the secant?!!?! intergrating is the other way round. i am not too sure. hehe calculus is in the drain oredi!

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TheRealAnonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:11:32 -0000

If dunno i dun need to lansi u lah correct anot? LoL...

Maths is my thing okay! =p haha...

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Kevin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:43:55 -0000

See ah paus, one of the best advice given by my Structures lecturer was him saying "Don't think too hard or too much"
Though structures if you dont think hard sure kenot answer 1 haha

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pinkpau — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:01:01 -0000

jane doe : i would never dare say i am 100% right about any math problem :P

ceres : trust me i am very weak in anything to do with math! i have to pause just to total up a bill..

LJY : have to take it for higher level econ courses :(

jane doe : i think i have to find the average.. but i dont know if it's the average of the last two (since it says after 42 minutes) or all four

shaolin tiger : is it differentiation? if so, then not at this point, nope

makcik : see the thing is i dont know if im supposed to take the average of all four, or just the last two. my classmates seem to think it's the last two only.. and that was the answer i intuitively worked out as well. but of course i could be wrong

sheon : HAHAHA omg i dowan to be in any building u build!!

reallybites : must hand up of coz! and it's all graded

chimpanzee : i'm doing a liberal arts course where i can do anything and everything and then declare a major before my 3rd year =)

michelle : i'm 19 and i'm still crying over math.. sigh. i hate practice la.. i hate anything to do with math. ya chimpanzee said math is not like history

k0k : bleh :( you're one of those!

kevin : but why take average of 4? why not the last two because it says "AFTER 42 mins"

keong : lucky u :( iwish i could leave math behind forever too

nyrac : eh pre-med here got a lot of math to do wan.. even in the chemistry subjects there's like some high level math

jun : hahahahaha

rachel : i need to take at least two calculus courses before i can take intermediate microeconomics

chin : ahh. i would have loved to do mass comm...

lishun : eh wow same like nyrac up there! she said medicine dont need math. that surprises me!

ap : hey you're the second person to show me that link. thanks much! i will look it up in about two hours when i have to start on my math again

songjun : sowwy :(

therealanon : where got obvious? you know meh how to get the pulse after 42 minutes? i dont even know if it means between 42 and 44, or just ngam ngam at 42..

pik : huh?

carol : FASTER COMMEEE HEREEEEEE !!

laundry fan : i would love to fly home and avoid handing in my calculus homework :(

KY : stoopid =(

fern : good luck!!!

ok answer the rest later. gossip girl time!!

Re: The Homework

cooknengr — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:17:04 -0000

That's the beauty of American education system. The goal is to have you plot the graph and visually realize the slope is changing with time, knowing the rate of change in the steepness of line, you can calculate the answer. You can word the conclusions according to your understanding of the question.

Lets put it this way, my sister failed her first driving test because the examiner asked her to perform a side parking ( parallel parking/3 point parking) along a red curb on the street of San Francisco. She did it perfectly, but FAIL, because she was supposed to tell the examiner' " Can't park there, It's a no parking zone".

With time you'll notice that American's education system is not spoon fed like back home, but help you to really understand the concept and freely let you apply what you have learned.

Always remind yourself calculus is all about the rate of change, good luck.

Re: The Homework

Honeybunny — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:34:33 -0000

Re-posting the illustration I posted earlier, just in case if anyone was wondering how exactly do you fuck the calculus question above. <3

http://i34.tinypic.com/qrc6...

Math is like masturbating.

Slow, hard, and sweaty at first but when you finally find the spot, and get the rhythm going... you'll get rabbit-vibe-orgasms !! :D

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kiasu andrew — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:52:29 -0000

im not taking math in swarthmore hohoho

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KC — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:15:21 -0000

Such an inaccurate cardiac monitor to calculate the heart beat rate tat way, I wonder how many wrong diagnoses have been made :(

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pinkshirtz — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:34:03 -0000

Ooo .. i hated maths too in College!!! Lucky for me i had this RM200 calculator to solve equations. Slopes, gradients and area! What a nightmare! X)

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Js — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:32:41 -0000

:( pity you, I for one have never been good in Maths and I still wonder why I picked up the subject, currently struggling to get a pass for my finals and the feeling of having a nice but lousy lecturer is no stranger to me either... Pardon me for my ignorance, but what course are you taking ? o_o

Anyway, I wish you all the best ! You can do it :)

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pinkyboo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:17:27 -0000

in reference to your plurk msg (points to the right), I loveeeee Soho too! It's so full of energy. I always like to go to chinatown first and slowly make my way up broadway into Soho. As u're walking up you will notice how drastically the vibe + environment changes. Its like, one minute you're at China and another minute you're at, uh, New York! LOL :) It feels kinda surreal but in a good way. So what did you end up buying at Soho?

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ront — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:47:41 -0000

it asked....'what is your conclusion?' is it expecting something along the line of Dr.House sarcasm?

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yosie — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:51:29 -0000

i hated my freshman calc class as well! i had a similar situation, trust me, when everyone in the class moans during a final because a question was written poorly, you know there is something wrong..

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Ping — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:48:20 -0000

i hate maths which is why i choose a course that doesn't need me to learn calculus and etc that had to do with maths formulas :-P

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notADoctor — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:02:15 -0000

Agree with $43, and great effort #19!

Though our heart rate seems constant, the instrumentation is really relying on the rate of change (dy/dx) to approximate the beat. The margin of error is really depending on the sampling frequency and duration; higher and longer being closer to the real.

Please learn to love math and your lecturer and taking nothing off the table.

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songjun — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:08:39 -0000

makcik: lol i used to teach her maths tuition even :p

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makcik mungkin kenal you — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:17:38 -0000

@ songjun

when i said "long live to pau's frens! " ..it is for peeps like you..no kidding you giving transalantic help??

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songjun — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:50:57 -0000

lol guys she got the concept right the whole time :P after going thru it with her, the only thing she got wrong was the simple operation of taking averages.... :P HAHA

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Honeybunny — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:19:50 -0000

Thanksss makcik but Idid nothing really... all I did was illustrate and express the solution you commented previously for a better understanding. Cheers. :D

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-Small Correction-
Keypoint:
The slope of the secant line, otherwise known as dy/dx or m is the increment of heart beats every MINUTE. (not seconds)
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mudah.com.my is a bitch — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:12:11 -0000

mudah.com.my invented calculus! lets bankrupt this company by clicking all the mudah.com.my ads. it's all over and making me sick like how calculus is to su ann... lets have all bloggers make money from this bad malay themed company by clicking on all its ads.