<p>We're on the chain rule in derivatives.</p>
<p>Sigh...we're never going to be close to ready for this exam.</p>
<p>"so far behind". wow </p>
<p>we ust finished related rates/ optimization, and are half way through integration. 3 dimensional stuff. not so fun.</p>
<p>Just took a test on using Upper and Lower sums to find area</p>
<p>woa..im in AP calc AB and i dont rememebr ANY of tht...were on that rule (forget name) thts like "dy/du times du/dx" is the derivative of the whole function with trig stuff in it (as u can tell..i dont knwo what im talking about..but i have an A so its all good..)</p>
<p>on the part after optimization</p>
<p>We're on chain rule too</p>
<p>I'm TA-ing Calc AB class (I took it last year) the class right now is doing related rates and implicit diff. I think if you guys are doing Calc AB, not BC the pace is about right. The thing is that our teacher only gave us a 3 day cushion to prepare for the AP test. Maybe other teachers are teaching so fast because they wanna prep you guys for the test. My (former) calc teacher taught really well, and kept on subtly inserting old stuff in our tests, so by the time AP May came along, we didn't really need review days... (btw: I got a 5)</p>
<p>How far along should BC classes be? I'm taking it and we are working on trig substitution. We've already done a lot with derivatives and integration and optimization and related rates and such... nothing new yet.</p>
<p>We're doing differential equations, optimization, and Newton's Method. We're going to start integrals after Thanksgiving Break; however, since I'm in AP Physics, I know what's going on for quite a bit of the chapter already.</p>
<p>We're on optimization after blowing through extremas. Am I the only one that is lost when it comes to extremas? Everything seems so arbitrary and I can hardly visualize the graph of f(x) from the graph of the derivative (f'(x)). Ah, Calculus is so logically painful. Anyone have any good online sites that actually offer step by step practice? That would help me a ton!</p>
<p>we are on newtons method and optimization</p>