mjennings
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You could approach your calc three teacher and see if he could give you some help, the one on one time might be more fruitful than the retake. If you understand the concepts and can show him that it's your calc 2 that is lacking he might be able to help you out. Also raid the math section at a bookstore, there may be something useful there as well.
Riemann sums are frustrating they explain why integrals work but not really useful in the long run.
I did calc 1.5 in high school (calc one plus about the first 5-8 weeks of calc 2), so my math study habits got bad as I coasted for a semester and a half, then got beat up the second half of calc 2, and had rough calc 3 as it was at 8 am, that was a bad call. Diffy Q was rough as I had a poor teacher (send a math doctorate to teach engineers who only want real world examples, but he wasn't as bad as the other option) and I really challenging professor immediately afterwards. I learned diffyQ in later engineering classes and I'm brushing up on it now in grad school.
For all the advanced math we do in school, unless you are doing research or a few other things, the vast majority of working engineers rarely touch calculus professionally. My fluids teacher even told us that the only time she's used calculus outside of the class room was when she, her husband (also an engineer), and a few other engineers we drinking and started to wonder what the optimal bear can shape would be, and did the optimization. And it is a tuna can, who wants to drink out of that?
Riemann sums are frustrating they explain why integrals work but not really useful in the long run.
I did calc 1.5 in high school (calc one plus about the first 5-8 weeks of calc 2), so my math study habits got bad as I coasted for a semester and a half, then got beat up the second half of calc 2, and had rough calc 3 as it was at 8 am, that was a bad call. Diffy Q was rough as I had a poor teacher (send a math doctorate to teach engineers who only want real world examples, but he wasn't as bad as the other option) and I really challenging professor immediately afterwards. I learned diffyQ in later engineering classes and I'm brushing up on it now in grad school.
For all the advanced math we do in school, unless you are doing research or a few other things, the vast majority of working engineers rarely touch calculus professionally. My fluids teacher even told us that the only time she's used calculus outside of the class room was when she, her husband (also an engineer), and a few other engineers we drinking and started to wonder what the optimal bear can shape would be, and did the optimization. And it is a tuna can, who wants to drink out of that?