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[Animate Dreams]

But we get to bring in a page of notes, 8x11(normal size), front and back. I'm hoping since a lot of you guys have done a lot of Calculus, you'd already have a lot of formulas or whatever crammed onto a page or two. I know my teacher isn't the only one to have ever done this. If you do have something like that, could you upload it for me, please? <3

[Samapico]

The best way to own that exam is to find the formulas you need yourself... that's the best study you can get.
Having the notes of someone else doesn't help at all, trust me.
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[Animate Dreams]

Erm, a D is passing... anyway, I'm trying to actually learn how to do the problems instead of spending my time writing stuff down on a paper(I'm actually studying with my sister right now), but I just remembered Chemistry where we got to use an index card and people came in with all kinds of crazy stuff on their index cards. Besides, if I have step by step instructions, I can usually get at least a few problems. I have a hard time learning math from a math book, though.

[SamHughes]

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[SamHughes]

I'm a skillz assistant for Calc II at RPI; let me see if my experience grading and teaching can help me make fun of you.

Formulas? There aren't many formulas to remember in Calculus.

Let me see....

Trig identities. But you know those already, right? Remember your 45-45-90 and 30-60-90 triangles! Unit circle! And sec^2 = 1 + tan^2.

Derivatives. Obvious and easy. But d/dx[ln(3x)] is not 1/(3x). It's 1/x.

Integrals. Remember that sec(x)tan(x)dx -> sec(x) and sec^2 -> tan. And \int ln(x)dx is _not_ 1/x; use integration by parts. If you're having trouble with a trig integral, draw a graph of the trig function, and then integrate it visually, and see what your integration curve looks like. This method works every time for me.

Note that 7 - 15 does not equal 9. (You wouldn't think that dot products are hard, but nuuuuooo.)

Remember which is the intermediate value theorem and which is the mean value theorem.

Taylor Series: Don't memorize the formula; just remember that the Nth degree Taylor polynomial matches the first N derivatives and the rest are zero.

And ∂z/∂x * ∂x/∂y * ∂y/∂z = -1.

[Animate Dreams]

I don't understand Unit Circle. I never took trig. >_> Besides, this is Calc I. We still have Unit Circle, but Taylor Series doesn't sound familiar, and wtf is that shit at the bottom of your post? I don't take Greek until next semester. Anyway, I guess I need to copy down trig identities... there's a lot of stuff I still don't know how to do that's on my study guide, though. My sister was supposed to help me, but she ended up playing final fantasy and talking to her fiancee for 3 hours. She is always hard to get help from anyway, preferring to ask questions like, "Well, how do you generally do problems like this?" instead of actually showing me how to do it and teaching me(like, you know, math teachers do... considering she has a math education major, she should know how to do it). So maybe I'll stay up late tonight trying to find good educational websites. >_>

[Smong]

What you could try, but it's probably too late, is to get last years paper and see what was on it. Also you can find a random email address of someone in the year above you and ask them questions.
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[Samapico]

trig is the easiest crap on earth...

you just need 2 triangles (maybe a 3rd one for cotan / cosec..., but I never used that)

writing down an integral table might be useful

[Blocks]

Whenever I forget anything, I re-derive it from first principles.

[SamHughes]

But at Battle School they don't have enough time on the exams to do that sort of thing.

[Solo Ace]

Meh, I went through all this crap in 8 weeks, and I still suck.

[Quan Chi2]

What about http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/cheat.pdf

It might have some useful notes.


...well... there goes my two cents.

[jake13jake]

I remember when I took Calculus, but I should have taken Calculus III before I took Linear Algebra this past semester, because they taught some of Linear Algebra in Calculus III, leaving me at a disadvantage.