How much calculus is used? I'm in high school & I'm only going up to Calculus 1 cuz i don't have enough room in my schedule
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I think I answered your question before...but not sure if you got it, so I'll write it here...\n\nI'm pre-med, and I've taken up through Calc II. A lot of pre-med students do that. However, I think that being pre-med only requires Pre-calc, or at most, Calc I. However, it also depends on your major. Chem majors need more calc than bio majors do...but don't worry. You have all of college to get that stuff in :)\n\nRegarding calc in med school, I don't know if you actually need it there, but I was told that math majors actually do the best on the MCAT because the process of thinking you need to do well as a math major is very similar to the process of thinking you need to succeed on the MCAT. Hope that helps!
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You just draw a graph yourself.\n\n! ain't gonna graph for you. Rather ! love calculus.
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I am taking College Algebra with Trigonometry and that is hard, so I know Calculus is real hard. That is a hard question to figure out.
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And I assume that you know that after college you will never ever again use that worthless knowledge.  What scientist is going to be doing long hand algebra when they have a computer?  Ask your teacher who uses it on a daily basis and what percentage of the population that is.  Would you even want to as a job choice?  It's really a shame that schools require such nonsense.
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Hopefully you'll find this site helpful.\n\nhttp://www.sosmath.com/calculus/calculus.html\n\nThere is a lot of information and example problems on limits and derivatives.  Good luck with your calculus class!
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You need to give more information, like are you in grade school, high school, or college?  Which science: biology, chemistry, physics?  Algebra, calculus, or just plain old math?
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COLLEG ALGEBRA!  Yep it had to be a math class.  I was never good at math in high school so, I new I would not be good at it in college.  Did I pass or drop it.  I did neither on at first.  I failed it.  I took the class over in hopes that I could raise my grade atleast by 1 letter but, that didn't seem to happen.  I ended up dropping it the second go around.
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sorry, but i love it, though it comes naturally to me... but then again i'm someone whose taking calculus in highschool and loves it...
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Hi there, I am an engineering student from India. My calculus was not so good too, but then I found this awesome book and boy oh boy, it did work!\nYou will find "Calculus and Analytic Geometry" by "Thomas/Finney"  really amazing!\nIf you have a graphing calculator (not neccessary though) you will live calculus with this book, believe me!\nBut just in case you are a bit more experienced, i mean have learnt calculus a lil more in detail then I would suggest you prefer "Calculus" by Binmore Davies.\nGood Luck and all the best!\nIn case you've got some doubts on any other electronic engineering subjects, PPPPPlllleaaaaaaaaaaaaase feel free to ask, especially regarding the choice of textbooks.
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I have a bit of calc links from when I took the AP exams.\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/education.php\n\nunder the section calculus. those sites were really useful.
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what kind of notes do you need? like, what math course are you currently taking?
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im taking Trig. try finding a homework helper web page. or go to the book that ur learning from web page because the majority of the times they have practice help on there.
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I started writing this out myself, and I found a great answer, much better than any I could give you. Here are a few quotes, and the whole article is at the URL noted in the sources.\n\n"The importance of calculus is that most of the laws of science do not provide direct information about the values of variables which can be directly measured. In other words, if you are lost, then physics will not help you find your way home, because there are no laws of physics that provide direct information about position ... many of the most important principles in science are rules for the way variables change. For instance, physics tells you how velocity will change in various situations -- i.e. it tells you about acceleration.\n\nThis is why it's important to have a mathematical way of talking about change. That's why you see the concept of the derivative used throughout science -- in physics, chemistry, biology, economics, even psychology. \n\n...\n\nThe primary importance of calculus in the hard sciences is that it provides a language, a conceptual framework for describing relationships that would be difficult to discuss in any other language.\n\nWhat is worthwhile for students to gain from a calculus course is the ability to read books that use the language of calculus and, at least to some extent, follow the derivations in those books. Unfortunately, being being proficient at the sort of [garbage] skills required to get a good grade in a calculus course is not a lot of help in this respect.\n\nI tell my calculus students that their grades are probably not a very good indicator of being able to do well in future courses. What's more important is whether they make the effort to follow the reasoning given in class and in the text. The most important part of the course (at least when I teach it) is the part that's never tested on."\n\nI *like* this guy.
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It depends on the school and how advanced the student is in their aptitude and experience. Advanced algebra, geometry and trigonometry are all fairly common. Occasionally you see some calculus for some students.
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u can even use calculus to find this out
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MathCad & Maple are both pretty good software for using Calculus, but you will probably not need your own copy for a while. When I was learning calculus I bought software to help learn it, but I never used it mainly because being a Chemical Engineering Student time was precious. It is possible it would have helped, but I ended up learning everything out of my books, except what the instructors made us do on a computer. Actually, I learned by doing an amazingly large amount of math. Later on I used computer software a lot, but not in my first two years of college.
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I'm in Algebra 1 (I go to an online high school). I would be glad to help you if I can.