Calc II vs Calc III

Jalmoreno
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:39:53 +0000

well, calc 3 I think is harder for those of us who are less geometrically inclined (a large focus of the class is on topics like vector spaces). However, the problem-solving itself can be easier, since you do a lot of what you have done throughout calculus (i.e., in calc 3 you take partial derivatives, which is differentiating but with respect to more than one variable. I believe that it is the same as differentiating except the first time around you treat one variable as constant and the second time you differentiate that variable).

So calc 3 may be one of those things where it’s trickier to set-up the problem (to understand the math) but it’s easy to actually solve (this is how I feel about area/volume in Calc BC :P)

BTW, I do plan on getting my 5 in BC Calc (I will be extremely disappointed in myself if this does not happen) and entering calc 3.