<p>really? let me say something for a change </p>
<p>I LOVE CALCULUS!!!</p>
<p>My hatred for calculus is very deep indeed. I got a horrible grade 1st quarter, and it's just like...I don't know, I just hate it. Actually, I hate everything I'm not good at...:p</p>
<p>so basically im the only person here who actually hates calc... everyone else just hates getting bad grades</p>
<p>No I actually hate it too. I have a hard time grasping it. I just don't get it...no matter what I do, I just don't get it. The bad grades only confound the problem...:(</p>
<p>That's BS. Nobody can "just not get it." It's not impossible. Try harder. Find out what you're doing wrong.</p>
<p>"so basically im the only person here who actually hates calc... everyone else just hates getting bad grades"</p>
<p>do you think you'd still hate it if you had a really good grade? I think not. you would be proud of the grade and like the class.</p>
<p>i can't stand pre-calc.. i dont even think it's worth taking calc next yr. it'll jsut kill my gpa and frustrate me. im not much of a math person.. i like english & science. geometry was good... but algII sucked for me.. i dont even know why, i was just so horrible at it, much like pre-cal. finite next yr for me : )</p>
<p>"do you think you'd still hate it if you had a really good grade? I think not. you would be proud of the grade and like the class."</p>
<p>I actually do have a good grade i have a 95.3 currently and im pretty sure i did great in the test we had friday, we only have 1 1/2 weeks in the quarter so i would say im doing fine</p>
<p>Wow, I love all the things you people mentioned. I'm great at essays, physics, etc.</p>
<p>I love Calculus... first time in years I've liked math.</p>
<p>I just love math. I'll take any math course if I can fit it into my schedule. I can't understand how you can hate math unless you're angry because of your grade. Maybe I'm biased because of my passion for math, but that's just what I think.</p>
<p>my teacher is making us all hate math cause the problems in our quizzes are completely twisted... its like he takes everything that we learned in a unit and mix them all up into one scary complex problem where there are so many parts of it that you have to think about... and what makes it twice as hard is that he thinks up questions that deal with previous units...</p>
<p>Give me an example.</p>
<p>That means she's a good teacher. Mine makes insanely easy tests and quizzes. I'd rather be challenged and overprepared than bored and not prepared at all.</p>
<p>A man standing in a bridge in the dark drops a rock. Four seconds later, the man hears the rock hit the water below. The speed of sound is about 340m/s. How high is the bridge?</p>
<p>I see integrals...</p>
<p>argh... no me gusta calculuso</p>
<p>I thought it was calculo? with an accent somewhere.:confused:</p>
<p>so mathwiz...got any brilliant ideas on how to work it out?
I thought I was good at math until calculus came along.</p>
<p>Total time = time for brick to hit water + time for sound to reach man</p>
<p>Velocity = g * T
Y-Position = .5 * g * T^2
Let h = height of bridge
Let t = time for brick to fall
Let T = total time</p>
<p>So
h = .5<em>g</em>t^2
T = t + h/340</p>
<p>You know T = 4. Solve for h.</p>
<p>h=70.5 m</p>
<p>Wasn't that hard was it? The only calc you used was to find the equation for the Y-Position by finding the antiderivative for velocity. And even without calc, anyone who has taken physics could do that.</p>
<p>i don't think that is calc at all.
4.9t^2+340(4-t)=2d
4.9t^2=340(4-t)</p>
<p>If someone has taken NO physics at all and just know that acceleration = -9.8 m/s, he needs to use calc. Someone taking physics needs about 2 seconds to solve the problem.</p>