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Hi everyone, After completing an undergraduate engineering degree, I walked away with a feeling that all I was taught was to crunch numbers, lacking an intuitive understanding of solution mechanisms. Now, with spare time, I got the desire to re-learn my upper mathematics curriculum. One of...

Well, for example, I never had an intuitive understanding of a Lagrange multiplier or a Jacobian. I could only solve them through symbolic manipulation, which, of course, is no fun at all. And as RobertT said, I definitely need to know everything down to the finest details.

Hi guys, I am wondering if anyone can recommend a good calculus-diff.eq text that does a good job at explaining concepts on an intuitive level. I have already covered the material, but many times I just learned to solve problems algorithmically, rather than understanding the theory. In turn...

Yea, watch out for those advancing tanks; hah, no I meant to say thanks. Anyway, I do believe that a= v dv/dx ; dv/dt = (dv/dx)(dx/dt) = v (dv/dx). Does this seem reasonable: a=kv=v dv/dx k=dv/dx k dx = dv intg. v=kx ? or is dividing by v not allowed => loss of roots or something?

Homework Statement A particle is accelerated from rest with acc. proportional to velocity. After traveling 10 meters the speed is 35 m/s, find the speed after the particle traveled 20 meters. (Changed the numbers a bit from the original so the answer ppbly will not be clean.) Homework...