I’m a sophomore starting to get into upper division class work. I have taken the gen chem series and math up to differential equations and didn’t really have a problem with the course materials or pace. This class on the other hand has me spinning. This is my first time posting on here and I was just wondering if I could get some advice or find somebody else who is struggling!
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I'm taking mat 22b with Craig Tracy also. What are you struggling with?
I feel as though I don’t even have a rudimentary understanding of what the class is. I know it’s solving functions that related to its own derivatives, but the scope of the class seems way out of the material that I’ve learned up to this point.
It should be mostly about "here's some information about how an unknown function is related to its derivative(s), and a bunch of techniques for figuring out what that function is." Years ago Tracy decided to ignore that and write his own textbook instead. He tends to assume that students know a lot of stuff (math, physics, programming) that isn't actually in the official prereqs for the class.
What do you feel?
The HW takes a very long time for me and I am not sure if my answer is correct. The lecture material isn't too hard for me.
Like for example, with number 3 on the homework how did you even know what he expected from Mathemetica?
We have to use mathematica? I thought we just write up our solution in latex.
I use Latex to write up the homework, but to Taylor expand equations inside integrals he wants us to use other programs
Everybody's struggling. Math 22B is supposed to be Intro To Differential Equations but Professor Tracy seems to think that it's a graduate-level course on Applications Of Differential Equations In Quantum Physics (take a look at Chapter 7 to see what I'm talking about).
I can help with at least some of it in my AATC support workshops (but I'm afraid I don't know much about LaTeX or Maple/Mathematica).
Unfortunately I can’t make it to your workshops on Monday and Wednesday’s. Those are the days that I have work! Thank you so much though. This comment made me feel so much better. It feels like I’m taking two classes! One where I’m teaching myself intro to diffequ through stuff online, and the other where I’m applying it at a much much higher level.
Yeah, that's about how I feel teaching the support workshops for it too. :–\
