MITES 2009 Information and Discussion

<p>california mites minority introduction to engineering, entrepreneurship and science mail letter receive accepted to mites what now mit summer program for minorities</p>

<p>heheh, im just putting some tags so that some californians that got accepted (not on CC) will find us :)</p>

<p>hey guys Im from Florida too an d i haven’t receive anything, Im krysty and Rjulien friend … This waiting thing is killing me =[</p>

<p>Hey guys, random Calculus question for a project I have due tomorrow. If I was calculating volume using the washer method(revolving around the x-axis) and then with the Shell method(revolving around the y-axis this time), I get different volumes, right? Just checking.</p>

<p>sorry mikester, I can’t really help you with that one (is only in pre-calc) good luck though</p>

<p>Well here’s hoping you get to learn calc over the summer at MITES.</p>

<p>^ I think the volumes should be the same, mikester.</p>

<p>@mikester, yup :D</p>

<p>@melody: Well I was told they are the same when you use washer and shell to revolve around the same axis, but then you use 1 for the x-axis and 1 for the y-axis, well my teacher never said that and my textbook is pretty quiet on that.</p>

<p>If you’re revolving around different axes, you’ll get a different answer.
:)</p>

<p>Just picture let’s say the graph of ln(x)
If you revolve it around the x-axis you’ll have a smaller volume than if you revolve it around the y-axis.</p>

<p>So yes, you were correct!
:)</p>

<p>Oops! Sorry, I thought you meant if you were using the shell and washer method when you revolve the function across the same axis, my bad! Yes, they would be different if you revolved them around a different axis.
:)</p>

<p>Alright, cool thanks guys(or gals), I’m off to finish my video.</p>

<p>lol, no problem!
:)</p>

<p>Oh, by the way, Krysty, I’m pretty sure we’ll find out sometime before May 20th. </p>

<p>I mean, MIT MITES will probably get the accepted students stuff by the 24th of April (and that’s assuming some mail takes A BIG WHILE), so we should find out by the first or second week of May :)</p>

<p>That’s really good news!!!
Did you read the stats I calculated?</p>

<p>yeah I’m pretty sure you guys won’t have to wait too long so at least that’s a nice plus (:</p>

<p>Hope we can get something tomorrow in the mail.
We can do this! cross finger for good news tomorrow.</p>

<p>I’m totally crossing my fingers, hopefully tomorrow will be the day</p>

<p>@ Mikester, are you taking the calc AP test?</p>

<p>^^^I’ll cross my fingers too :slight_smile:
If nothing comes in the mail…well, I’d pretty much go crazy.</p>

<p>Kryst - I sent an email asking about the waitlist on Friday, anyways, so I’ll get some information hopefully tomorrow.</p>