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10-20-2011, 06:50 PM
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#16 | | Junior Member
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Hi,
I'm a senior taking an online calc II class. I wanted a textbook to help me understand these topics better:
Splines, expansions, Taylor formula, convergence, and power series. If you have any suggestions for textbooks that explain things well, I would reeally appreciate it!
Thanks!
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10-20-2011, 08:13 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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11-17-2011, 09:03 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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Hope all your self-studiers are doing well so far!
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01-21-2012, 01:21 AM
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#20 | | New Member
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Pretty nice, thanks for all your effort.
I'm using Stewart's, though I have Larson too. I'm only in pre-cal, but it doesn't even challenge me at the very least so that's why I'm self studying haha. I have both instructors solution manuals for the textbooks just in case I get stuck on questions. I read sections and do problems everyday in the text. I use Spivak/Apostol as supplements when I want deeper insight. There about 4 teachers i can rely on in my school that teach AP Cal AB/BC. My physics teacher can help me on applied calc-based physics problems, but that's a whole different topic; it might help intuitively still haha.
I'll probably stop by Barnes and Nobles 4 weeks before the test for the review book and do some practice multiple choice questions and frqs. Anything else I should do to prep?
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01-21-2012, 10:50 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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Very ambitious plan.. but it sounds like you're very much on top of things! I don't have any further suggestions except maybe to consider also using video tutorials (patrickjmt, Khan Academy) for the very challenging topics. As long as you do the work and thoroughly understand most of the past FRQs (they definitely repeat themselves), you'll do great. Good luck!
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02-16-2012, 05:50 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member
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Hey!
I took Calc BC and got a 5, but our class didn't go very in depth in polar coordinates which you said is very important. Should I retake Calc II in college?
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02-17-2012, 10:03 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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Unless you completely forgot everything, I'm sure you'll be fine skipping Calc 2. Yes, polar/parametric (being able to integrate/take their derivatives) is very important for Calc III; however, I'm sure you can just review the material from a textbook / website instead of retaking an entire semester of Calc 2 again. Just my 2 cents.
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02-17-2012, 11:24 PM
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#24 | | Member
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Hi Equilibrium, I took Calculus I in a local CC and I am now studying for BC. Your guide is a big help, and thanks for the link to the old MC questions.
I wondering about the difficulty for Logistic Differential Equations though. I understand how the logistic equation works but I can't solve any word problems that are in my Stewart textbook where I'm given info and then I have to come up with an equation sort of thing. After searching in CC though it seems to me the BC test doesn't test that, I just need to know the equation and stuff like where the solution curves approach. What do you think?
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04-14-2012, 09:58 PM
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#25 | | Junior Member
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Thank you SO much for the link for the multiple choice questions-I hadn't had much luck finding good ones with google. I'm having issues with series-what sites/notes were the most helpful?
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