/sci/ - Science & Math

Your brain might be a decent calc solver if you use it.

>>12028177
pencil and paper

>>12028605
*sportcaster voice* well there you have it, folks

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>>12028659
screencap this advice OP, and return to it when you've tried everything else

>>12028177
Like everyone else in this thread has been insisting, it's worth it to do it by hand. If you're doing a quiz or exam and can't afford to be wrong, use WolframAlpha to check your answers before you submit.
If you use it for anything else you're a faggot and a fraud.

>>12028995
Some of the stuff I typed in Wolfram Alpha didn't work, but when I typed it into Symbolab, it did. I had subscriptions to both, by the way.

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>>12028869
Retards, I don't have access to in-person tutoring thanks to the covid bullshit. With the equation solvers, I am able to see, step by step, how to work something out. It helped me massively in trigonometry.

>>12028177
get the solution manual, I did that and it worked for me . Use Youtube to find similar problems like textbook if solution manual is not clear

>>12030776
>get the solution manual
Seems like an expensive supplement to a step-by-step equation solver.
Doesn't it only cover the odd problems?

>>12028177
Above all review algebra. You think I'm joking. I'm not. Review the fuck out of it. Make algebraic manipulation another language.

>>12030784
3 seconds using google free
https://www.academia.edu/40820697/Complete_Solutions_Manual_James_Stewart_7th_Edition_VOL_2_

>>12028177
You are right to use the tools you have available. I wasted a lot of time self-sabotaging by not using the means I had. I would stare at exercises and hope if I stare long enough maybe I can come up with something, never did, only schizo shit came up.
I like symbolab. When you get to multivariable, use geogebra.org/3d , you can for example enter z=x2+y2 , y=2-x , and see how they intersect.
demonstrations.wolfram.com/ is also a really fun site, for multivariable and other stuff.

>>12030801
Thanks, fren.
>>12030800
yeah I guess I could get the version for my textbook for free but I will need some explanation for the steps sometimes

>>12028177
op, please follow this >>12028605 .. I took the easy way with symbolab, chegg, geogebra and now I'm retarded.

I used wolfram to check my answers in calc 2, but honestly most calc 1 stuff can be done easily by hand. Once you get a rhythm for how to solve the problems, it goes pretty easily. Can you not email your professor if you are stumped by problems?

I also found youtube videos helpful for specofic problem types. I used PatrickJMT, some MIT recitation problem videos, and professor leonard's lectures to supplement as well if I had difficulties in multivariable calc.

>>12028177
if you have to use outside source for calculus calculations besides your own brain just quit

>>12030796
True. I found the most difficult parts of calc to be the algebra and manipulating equations and such. The actual calculus theorems and rules, at least outside of the context of proofs in something like real analysis, to be pretty straightforward.

>>12031088
Sometimes you just don't know what an answer is supposed to look like.

>>12031025
That's the same as saying "going for math tutoring will make you retarded"

>>12031088
>if you need a hint to push you in the right direction, you're an idiot

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I bought a copy of Calculus An Intuitive Approach by Kline and used it as a supplementary text. Whenever I encountered a concept that I could not grasp, I read the relevant section or chapter of Kline. Since Kline wrote his book at a time when you only got as far as algebra in high school, I found the text to be simpler and more straightforward than a modern textbook, albeit less in depth at times.

>>12031534
>Since Kline wrote his book at a time when you only got as far as algebra in high school,
This isn't true and was never true for people that went to good highschools