What book do your read now?
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum and Albert Woodhull
A College Textbook of Physics by Arthur Kimball
Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Sir Isaac Newton as translated by Florian Cajori. I only have volume 1.
What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum and Albert Woodhull
A College Textbook of Physics by Arthur Kimball
Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Sir Isaac Newton as translated by Florian Cajori. I only have volume 1.
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Why Does E=mc2?: (and Why Should We Care?)
by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
by Albert Einstein
by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
by Albert Einstein
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Harry Potter and the ... Just kidding :p
Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
By Scott Meyers
Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
By Scott Meyers
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| Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein |
Is it difficult?
I have Introduction to General Relativity by Gerard Hooft but I don't have anything about Special Relativity.
Can't remember the author off hand, but
An introduction to Multi variable calculus
by far the scariest effin math discipline I've ever encountered.
An introduction to Multi variable calculus
by far the scariest effin math discipline I've ever encountered.
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| Is it difficult? |
I don't know yet, only bought it last week. I've had a virtual flick through (Kindle for Mac) and it seem ok, I'm more interested in reading the other one first. (plus I'm waiting for my Kindle to turn up to make reading easier)
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I have alot (~5.2) GiB of physics books as .pdf files if anyone wants them, and some on maths (4.63 GiB), chemistry (4.33 GiB) and biology (4.31 GiB) on the way. Just sayin'.
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@chrisname.
I'm teaching my self calculus since my councilor effed up my schedual my first year of highschool. I should of taken college calculus my senior year, instead I was in Algebra II. It's been tough over the last few years, but now I understand most of the essential theorems for basic calculus, I understand limits, integration, anti derivatives, and derivatives. And lucky for me I'm only taking pre-calc at Uni this year. as for reading the book on multi-variable calculus? I'm not getting a lot of it, I picked it up just to see what the subject was like, and it's pretty intense. I can't wait till i know enough calculus to pick this up in a few years. I'll likely take the class my junior year at Uni.
I'm teaching my self calculus since my councilor effed up my schedual my first year of highschool. I should of taken college calculus my senior year, instead I was in Algebra II. It's been tough over the last few years, but now I understand most of the essential theorems for basic calculus, I understand limits, integration, anti derivatives, and derivatives. And lucky for me I'm only taking pre-calc at Uni this year. as for reading the book on multi-variable calculus? I'm not getting a lot of it, I picked it up just to see what the subject was like, and it's pretty intense. I can't wait till i know enough calculus to pick this up in a few years. I'll likely take the class my junior year at Uni.
I'm learning Calculus just because alot of the books about physics I mentioned are very heavy on Calculus. I figured I can teach myself C++, so why not Calculus? I'm not that mathematically-minded but I'll manage. It's mostly mental arithmetic that I struggle with, but I'm sure I can get better...
Trust me you can, I was TERRIBLE at math when I was a young kid, but the farther along I got in advanced mathematics the more simple everything before it became. as logical as that sounds it was kinda like a series of epiphanies. For instance, learning trigonometry made algebra so much easier. learning calculus made trigonometry easier and so on.
| I have alot (~5.2) GiB of physics books as .pdf files if anyone wants them, and some on maths (4.63 GiB), chemistry (4.33 GiB) and biology (4.31 GiB) on the way. Just sayin'. |
Chris, you friggin book-addict :D
I'd love to have 'em!
| I'm not that mathematically-minded but I'll manage. |
Wait till you get to integreation by parts/substitution :| The chain, product and quotient rule are quite 'fun' to learn though; I say fun loosely lol but they aren't too difficult
I'm learning calculus too :) Good luck to us all ^^
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All I know now is how to solve for derivatives and limits but don't know what they mean or where do I need them? That will come next.. (worded problem)
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All I know now is how to solve for derivatives and limits but don't know what they mean or where do I need them? That will come next.. (worded problem)
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Derivatives are used as a way of finding the gradient on a curve, or the rate in which something is occuring. You will use them a lot!
I remember quotient rule by this mnemonic:
low d hi - hi d low over low squared
explained:
(denominator times the derivative of numerator) minus ( numerator times the derivative of denominator ) all divided by denominator squared.
low d hi - hi d low over low squared
explained:
(denominator times the derivative of numerator) minus ( numerator times the derivative of denominator ) all divided by denominator squared.