Any Engineers on here taken Calculus 3??? What should I expect?

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Found out I need Calculus 3 to finish up my Bachelors in Biochemistry so I can start applying to Pharmacy schools in the state. Any engineers on here taken this course and could tell me what to expect? The only thing I can imagine is a more in depth look into integration....
 
Sheesh...it's been 25 yrs but I remember it was the course I hated MOST in my college experience (mechanical engineering )
 
I don't know what Calc 3 relates to in what I had to take, but I took 106, 108, 206, and 208 at Clemson. I struggled with 106 and 108, but early in 206 something clicked and it all made sense. Hopefully the same happens for you.
 
Like above, I took Calculus 106, 108, 206, & 208 at Clemson in the early 90's. Calculus 206 (at that time) mainly dealt with vectors. I thought it was easier than parts of 106 and 108 and definitely easier than 208 (differential equations with more than one variable).
 
One more to the 106/108 206/208 at Clemson crowd.

Calculus was a weird deal for me. I could always work the problems correctly and easily, but I can't really tell you that I ever understood the concepts. And in 16 years out of school I've used it...none.
 
Multivariable was OK. I vaguely remember being confused about half of the semester, then I "got it" and moved on. I think it's the only Calculus book I kept. At NC State it was MA242. I seem to recall it was taught in tandem with a Matlab/Simulink course.
 
Only thing I rememberer is that it's 3d calc. The i,j,k vector stuff. Where are you taking it at? If at UNCC do NOT take it with Gorden, take it with Goden. I know my spelling is off, they are both Russian and a pain in the ass to understand but Gorden makes it harder than it has to be and runs his class like Stalin.
 
Hunter44 said:
I don't see the use in Pharmacy but oh well
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I've wondered the same thing many times in school. Best answer I got was that it's not the material itself that you need to remember like the back of your hand, its how you arrived at the answer. It's not teaching you what to think, its teaching you HOW to think. My perspective changed after that and things become somewhat simpler.
 
Just checked with my sister who is a pharmacist. Said she had 2 semesters of calculus total and is positive she never got beyond 2 variables.
 
I got through it at NCSU a while back. Calc 3 is easier than calc 2 i think. Concepts and problems made sense in class, but the exams wore me out. You can never have enough repetition. Like others im sure, the communication, grading, and teaching skills of TAs in the ncsu math program vary dramatically.
 
We had an old USMC Artillery SGT for a teacher back at Norwich. Calc 3 was just about what I expected, and generally what everyone else is explaining it as: Integrations, Graphing and Mapping in 3D instead of 2D on an x/y planar section. Imagine a parabola, or any graph for that matter in 2D, then just expand it out towards you and away from you and map the differentials. It's more bark than bite, just ask a shit load of questions!
 
Chris_Keziah said:
Only thing I rememberer is that it's 3d calc. The i,j,k vector stuff. Where are you taking it at? If at UNCC do NOT take it with Gorden, take it with Goden. I know my spelling is off, they are both Russian and a pain in the ass to understand but Gorden makes it harder than it has to be and runs his class like Stalin.
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Haha, ol Yuri Godin! I was in his class with a good friend of mine, and we got a kick out of his russian accent and how he always referred to things on the board as "dis guy". To this day, we still refer to random things as "dis guy" and get a laugh about it. I don't remember which calculus was which, but I remember not hating Calc 3 as much as I hated Differential Equations :kaioken:
 
jeepinmatt said:
Haha, ol Yuri Godin! I was in his class with a good friend of mine, and we got a kick out of his russian accent and how he always referred to things on the board as "dis guy". To this day, we still refer to random things as "dis guy" and get a laugh about it. I don't remember which calculus was which, but I remember not hating Calc 3 as much as I hated Differential Equations :kaioken:
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Yeah I definitely should have taken it with Godin, Gorden was still funny in his own right though. Differential equations wasn't terrible for me, everything before Calc III kinda blends together after awhile.
 
Calc 3 is just another math class. Might stretch your brain a little bit, but it's still just another math class.

O-Chem scares me. I never had to take it for engineering, but almost did it as an elective because of the relevance to my beloved hydrocarbons.
 
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