I need to take a short Calculus course.  What should I brush up on to take this course?
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YES! aside from your basic order of operations, make sure you know all the rules dealing with properties of exponents.\n\nyou should also make sure you know your basic geometry, how a graph works, stuff like that.\n\nyou should also check out some basic trig. you just need to know the really basic stuff like sin=1/csc etc...\n\nalso, get yourself a graphing calculator and learn how to use it. get a TI-86 or TI-89. do NOT get a Casio or a TI numbered 83 or below. they are useless
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well i would say the best math sites are as follows:\nhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/\n--occassionaly hard to navigate\ni cant think of many off the top of my head, but a google search can provide good resources, i find tutoring the best resource, i tutor calculus I and II, and could tutor calc III
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I can help, I've taken College Algebra, Calc. I, Calc. II and I've also taken many other math courses, and I'm also studying to be a computer programmer, so if you need help you can contact me at assassin7262002@yahoo.com
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All kinds of simple, easy calculus examples in real life (especially engineering!).  These depend on the level of math knowledge, but for University Calc. II:\n\nOptimization: (i.e. give a box with a volume, find minimum surface area) or (here's a certain amount of fencing, make the largest enclosure you can).  (Lagrangian Multipliers? did I even spell that right?  We looked at those when there are a lot of constraints on the problem (i.e. relationship between box dimensions must follow .....).\n\nForces: for example, average fluid pressure on a dam, given a function of distributed force, or fluid pressure on a submerged object. (Can be done in single or multiple integrals).\n\nRelated Rates:  i.e. two cars approach at right angles, different speeds, when will they meet.  Or, dropping a ball near a light source, find speed of shadow as function of angle made with light source, distance from ground, etc.  Differetial calculus example.\n\nArea and Volume: Double and triple integrals to find the volumes and areas of shapes. (Or single integrals, volumes of revolution, areas from curve to axis, if multi-variable calculus not covered).\n\nCurve Fitting: really good real-life use, take a set of data points from an experiment, select a curve type (i.e. quadratic, cubic, straight line, logarithmic, etc) and use minimization to get the best curve fit (set up an equation for the residuals, sum of (function) - (data point), and take derivatives with respect to each unknown coefficient in the function, set all derivatives equal to zero, solve simulatneously for curve coefficients. Now we can predict the outcome of the experiment at intermediate values, (as long as the curve fit is good).\n\nCentre of Mass, Centroids, etc: Find the balancing point on certain objects or groups of objects using integration. Can be single or multiple integrals, depending on complexity of shape.\n\nFields:  i.e. graviational fields, electrical fields, etc.  Or make up some fields.  Integration to find work required by a particle to traverse a path through some field.  Conservative and non-conservative fields.  Can use as an example of energy needed to move satellites along paths (equations) in space near earth's gravity, an electron through an electrical field, etc.  I guess some of these examples the field is conservative and it becomes kinda trivial if you work with end points, but don't have to.\n\nThese are some of the applications we used in our Calculus II-type course.  The hardest part is always setting the problem up, not solving, (which makes for good application problems I guess).  If multi-variable calculus isn't covered yet, then some of these examples would be kinda rough (i.e. fields).  Anyway, hope these are useful. \n\nCheers,
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first you need to take a intro to number theory class and linear and abstract algebra which all are recommended after the calc sequence and difrential equations. then you should have the prerequsite to take a class about algrothems which has quadratic siv included
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"The Calculus of One Variable" by I. A. Maron is a good book for self-study.
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Two and a half hour classes aren't too bad, as long as you can handle them--some people can't and some people do better in them than every day classes.\n\nI would definitely take Calculus in the semester following Pre-Calculus rather than wait 8 months (through the next semester and summer) to get back into the "groove" with a high level math class.\n\nHowever, there are also benefits to taking a class every day rathe than twice a week.  When a class is held every day, you are being exposed to it every day so it might be more likely to stick in your head.  The concern you mention about missing classes is also a very valid one.  I am currently taking three classes, two of them meet only once a week for 3 and 4 hours each.  I have been sick for the last two weeks and while I dragged myself to class last week, I didn't manage to make it this week so I've missed 1/15th of the class just by missing a single meeting!\n\nIn the end, it is up to you, only you know how you learn best.  If you are doing well this semester every day it might be worth it to wait.  The first few course meetings in a fall semester class are likely to be devoted to review anyway.\n\nGood luck!
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I can't give you all 30 but I can get you started.\n\nWho discovered Calculus?\nExplain the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus?\nWhat is a derivative?\nWhat is an integral?\nHow is Calculus useful?\nWhere did the name Calculus come from?
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Geez, this is like asking, "How do you do math?"  Calculus is an entire field within the discipline of mathematics.  There is so much involved, you can summarize the goal of calculus but not the "how."\n\nThere are basically two branches of calculus:  differential calculus and integral calculus.  In differential calculus, basically all you are doing is finding the slope of a curve.  With integral calculus, you are basically finding the area under a curve.  (Sound simple, huh?)  Both of these have MANY applications, so there is a lot of "how" that goes on in calculus courses.\n\nAt the university I graduated from, there are five semesters of calculus, not counting the "side" courses like differential equations.  Remember that two years of high-school algebra is compacted into one semester of college algebra, and you can get an idea of the scope of calculus.\n\nIf you do have specific questions about specific types of calculus problems, we can be more helpful with the "how."  You have just given us a question that is WAY too vague to address well.
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http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/high_calculus.html
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I've heard very well of Mathematics for Economists -- by Carl P. Simon, Lawrence Blume as a basic calculus book. Forget the "for Economists", calculus is calculus. It is expensive though.
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http://www.math.com/\nhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/\nhttp://www.calculus-help.com/\nhttp://math.about.com/od/calculus/
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Mathworld.com.  Or, if you type the subject your interested in followed by "Forum" in google, you'll find some good help that way.  Fore xample, "calculus forum".  Also, you can ask me whatever you want.
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http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/high_calculus.html\n\nask here...:)
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The idea of a limit can be a very confusing one for students. Sometimes you can best understand the concept by seeing visual examples. My favorite website for calculus topics is www.calculus-help.com It's got alot of great tutorials to help you with different concepts in calculus. Well, your in luck! Because they have a specific flash video on limits to help you understand! Here is the link, it is very informative: http://www.calculus-help.com/funstuff/phobe.html . You'll probably want to start with lesson 1. Good Luck!
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I am also preparing for the AP Calculus Exam in 2006 and I can tell you that the points that I saw emphasized most in taking practice former AP tests were solids of rotation (disc, washer, and shell), the fundamental thereom of Calculus (what integral means), U-substitution, derivative rules, Riemann sums, speed, linearization (finding the slope of the tangent line),  volume of known cross sections, concavity and inflection points, the area between two curves, differentiability and continuity, local and global extrema (critical points and end points), implicit differentiation equations, trignometric derivatives, the rule of exponential growth (like volume increasing at a rate proportional to the radius), average value of a function, optimization, and related rates.  I know that is a lot but I have taken 5 complete practice AP tests (former tests) in class since February and all of these concepts were reccuring.
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I'm afraid I don't have a web site for you off the top of my head, but I would offer this (probably controversial) advice:  try to learn calculus from a physicist instead of a mathematician.  Physics has many great applications for calculus (Newton invented it to do some physics, after all) and I think it is easier to learn based upon the applications.\n\nMathematicians fuss too much about subtleties right away and I think they get in the way of the basic ideas of derivatives beng rates of change and integrals as ways of simply adding things up.