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Which is objectively the more difficult course? Calc 2 or 3?

>> No.6663787

2 requires more work but neither are that bad

>> No.6663790

Calc 2 . Integration sucks, always.

>> No.6663791

2. 3 is an expansion of the concepts from 2, but there's not much new material

>> No.6663795

calc 3 is just derivatives and integrals with 2 or 3 variables. the hardest part about 3 was definitely the line integrals. fuck line integrals. they arent hard but i could never figure out which formula to use

>> No.6663803

>>6663783
Difficulty is subjective.

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>> No.6663808

>>6663803
baby mathematics difficult

>> No.6663826

>>6663790
Except when doing analysis.

>> No.6663835

What was even part of Calc 2? Never had to take it because BC Calc in high school.

Calc III was pretty easy, the only tough stuff was Jacobians.

>> No.6663842

>>6663826
Why?

>> No.6663871

Alot of people say Calc 2 is harder because of infinite sequences and series. I didn't find it that bad though.

>> No.6663893

>>6663871
I took an exam without knowing how to properly use the P-Series and still got a B. Average for the class was like 50s

>> No.6663989

>>6663783
calc 4

>> No.6664014

>>6663783
Calc 2 by far. 3 was just adding another dimension and some other pretty simple stuff. Oh and fuck non x,y coordinate systems.

>> No.6664026

To be honest, one expects a higher level student to figure out the core of Calc 3 on their own as a great deal of multivariable integration/differentiation is precisely what one would expect.

So I guess Calc 2 would probably be "harder" as you're being introduced to concepts you can't really reason out from Calc 1 knowledge.

>> No.6664068

i skipped calc 3 even though i wasn't supposed to (coming from BC) and just learned it by myself and took the next course down the line.
am i fucked?

>> No.6664075

>>666378

calc II b/c of series
I enjoyed multivariable a lot more than single

>> No.6664089

is this the first year of math at american unis?

>> No.6664109

>>6664089
Typically second

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6664111

2

>> No.6664136

>>6664089
Depends on the student and the school. At Harvard, the best first year math majors learn about multivariable calculus in terms of multilinear forms and manifolds, complex analysis, group representations, etc while at some schools, "real analysis" (calculus with proofs, not actual analysis, i.e. the first several chapters of babby rudin) and "abstract algebra" (really just finite groups, a bit about rings, maybe enough Galois theory to do the quintic thing) are considered "upper-division" classes, the things that your degree is centered on.

>> No.6664184

>>6664111
Most of those are intuitive, and a few are just rote memorization. That material is easy unless you have to prove why all of those work. That would be a pain in the ass.

>> No.6665725

>>6663842
did your highschool ever make you take an analysis course? mine did.

except it was the prereq to calc. we had to learn a bunch of theorems derived with calc but we couldnt understand the derivations. i only understood that class the year after i took it, when i tried old problems with later knowledge.

>> No.6665896

>>6663871
>>6663893
Been studying calc 2 over the summer to test out of it this coming October, and I got to this "final chapter" of infinite sequence and series.

It's been smooth sailing with integration/polar coordinates, but for some reason I feel like I've started off on the wrong foot in this chapter. It's as if I'm missing one basic detail, and without it the pieces aren't coming together right. I got to the integral test and estimates of sums section, but I feel I can't go on unless I can wrap my head around sequence and series.

Wat do, how do I into sequence and series?

>> No.6666873

>>6665896
>you do not "into sequence and series"
>"sequence and series into" you

In all seriousness, I did pretty poorly on my last two exams for Calc 2 (which were on this subject) and I really wish I had paid more attention and tried harder.

I am a physics major, so I am not sure if I need to know that particular topic in math. Anyone here enlighten me on that?

>> No.6666877

2

Fuck inverse trig functions.

>> No.6666994

>>6666877
I actually thought inverse trig integrals were fun. You just kinda grind through them and you even get to check yourself on the reference triangle

>> No.6667450

>>6665725
No.
I'm probably going to take analysis next semester in uni.

>> No.6667471

Is Real Analysis a Junior Year or Sophomore Year course at most unis?

>> No.6667478

>>6663871
I thought series and sequences was the easiest part of calc 2. It was such a relief after coming off of shit like volumes of solids of revolution and integration by trig substitutions.

>> No.6668093

>>6666873
for photons i guess

>> No.6668626

3 because although I never took proper calc 3, I found 2 to be a breeze, even though it was supposed to be a weedout course. Really, it was all about practice, not much thinking to it. Just make sure you do all your homework problems, even those that aren't graded, and you should be golden.

For whatever reason, my uni decided Bio majors had to take a different calc 3 from everybody else. The "calc 3" I took was more linear algebra than anything else. Now I'm in an MS for applied statistics and I am having to pull double duty to make up for my lack of calculus knowledge.