<p>Should I be trying to store all of these misc equations into long term memory, such as equations of ellipses, parabolas, hyberbolas, etc? I mean, I'll know the general format but I probably wouldn't be able to memorize which one is vertical and which one is horizontal, etc. Is this okay or is it important to be able to recall all of these from memory?</p>
<p>I don't. I've gotten along fine. <em>shrugs</em>
It's probably good to be able to recognize one when you see it, though.
Especially the more common ones (i.e. circles).
You'll see it again and again and eventually you'll just get a feel for it.</p>
<p>same here. I feel that i don't have to make the effort to memorize. It's intuitive after awhile.</p>
<p>i would memorize conics. they pop back up in calc.</p>
<p>^When??? ?</p>
<p>eh we've never used them in calc. It might be useful to know the derivations for the parabola and the ellipse but conics aren't in the AP Calc curriculum.</p>
<p>you don't need to focus on memorizing it really. after you do enough problems, you will just know them from experience</p>
<p>you should probably try to keep it in long term memory. it'll help quite a bit.</p>
<p>They may not be in the AP calc curriculum, but we used them in Calc 2 at my local cc.</p>
<p>yeah, calc 2, same here.</p>
<p>My teachers tell us to memorize them. They want us to recognize graphs by their equations. It can't hurt to memorize them.</p>
<p>Definitely memorize the conic formulas. I didn't, and they keep coming back to bite me in the ass when I don't cheat (write down the formulas). </p>
<p>I don't see why you need to memorize whether it's vertical or horizontal; that's easy.</p>
<p>I never learned these, and I'm doing fine in college majoring in engineering.</p>
<p>Definitely memorize conics. You should store some equations in your memory. It doesn't take that much time</p>