<p>Any tips for those who have taken Calc III at UMich? I took Math 115 and 116 last year, but I seriously feel like I have forgotten everything over the summer. I am currently reviewing basic derivatives, integrals, chain-rule, implicit, etc. but I feel I should get a head start before the hectic schedule of school finds me.</p>
<p>um there’s not much stuff you can review since the materials are slightly diff. You’ll encounter some basic integration problems so you’ll easily pick those up later on. I guess a good start would be knowing how vectors in 3D work, dot products and cross products.</p>
<p>i find it difficult to learn ahead when the materials not covered, cramming few chapters in few days works extremely well though.</p>
<p>Yea, I figured it would not be worth my time to start trying to teach myself…but I was just wondering what I should know really well from Calc I and II before I enter the class - I figure it could give me a little ‘one up’ on all the students coming in straight out of a long high school summer for the first exam.</p>
<p>“i find it difficult to learn ahead when the materials not covered, cramming few chapters in few days works extremely well though.”</p>
<p>I assume you’re talking class exams and not for the actual class/homework?</p>
<p>^ yeah, but the hw is only 10% of ur grade, so half bsing it would work, but you gotta rock the exam though. It’s a bad habit, but it works =p</p>
<p>only thing you can do right now is spin 3D stuff in your head for practice. I found that it helps a lot with both Calc III and orgo.</p>
<p>Yeh…a whole lot of visualizing I hear.</p>
<p>I would’ve worked on memorizing my trig identities and being good with the trig functions for the triple integration stuff. And also working on memorization skills in general lol, I hated spherical/cylindrical integration</p>
<p>Are there any math classes that aren’t hard for freshman?</p>
<p>I’ve never met anyone taking 105, but I bet 105 is really really easy.</p>
<p>Ya i took calc three at csu and didn’t get credit so i am taking honors this semester. Visualization is huge later on. From just points in a 3d space to the intersection above a plane underneath cone and in a cylinder. We weren’t as drilled on trig identities as calc ii because u are learning calc again for two then three variables</p>
<p>I got into 105- for the sole reason that I bombed my AP Calc and apparently didn’t do so hot on the math placement either. But I already have gone thru a few years of midterms and finals and know most of the material without even taking the class. So it looks pretty much like a cakewalk.</p>
<p>So, trig identities are important so far…</p>
<p>Trig identities are given on the exams if they are needed, definitely not necessary to memorize them…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say 105 is a cakewalk. I know when I was a freshman I had some friends that had to take it and they actually did better in 115 than they did in 105. Apparently it was graded pretty harshly.</p>
<p>What is 105 even anyway? Precalc?</p>
<p>MLDWoody; Basically-Data, functions, and graphs</p>
<p>[Math</a> 105/Overview](<a href=“http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/courses/105/1overview.html]Math”>Math 105/Overview)</p>
<p>Staying on topic, is there anything specific in Calc I and II we should completely master and remember to do well in Calc III?</p>
<p>nothing much, it’s a whole new subject…</p>
<p>I know some schools teach vectors and linear algebra in calc II… do we have to know this or would this be covered in calc III for umich?</p>