Recent content by The_Z_Factor

Right now I find it quite easy especially easy for what a lot of my friends make it out to be. But anyways, if you want to know some of my work I've been doing, the first bunch of problems I started doing were along the lines of Differentiate x^5, which is 5x^4 Then itd get a bit more...

Due to my previous thread being locked (sorry for not following guidelines), I'm going to ask just one question. Now, not saying I do or I don't have obsessive compulsion disorder, whether I do or dont, but regardless can it be cured? Is there any sort of medication that can cure obsessive...

Ugh god I think I may have obsessive compulsion disorder..Im not exactly sure what the disease is but from what I've read (very little) and seen (in movies :-p), you have an obsession to do things over and over...Well I happen to be like that. Since 4th grade I've always had a thing for doing...

Ive been thinking..lately I stopped working on my physics books and just been doing a lot of math. For the past couple of weeks I've been thinking and wondering whether I actually would like to do physics or not..I was thinking well to be a physicist you have to really love your job. So I was...

:smile: I read in a calculus book about how teachers in high school don't know how to teach calculus and can't give an idea or show how brilliant and beautiful true calculus can be which is why high school calculus courses usually are so poor because students arent interested or complain that...

Today I asked an upper-classman friend of mine what she was doing currently in pre-calculus. She told me she's doing differentiation, I woulda guessed that. However, she has a friend in calculus AP and I asked her what they did in AP, if she knew, since I'm planning on taking AP calculus my...

Something weird is happening to my internet. I have DSL and broadband as a phone company, my router is a d-link. Anyways, a couple of months ago nothing would happen when the phone rang, but now everytime the phone rings and gets turned off (after ending a call turning off the phone), my...

Ahh thank you everybody, and thanks cesiumfrog for the link, that pretty much sums it up.

Yeah that's true I suppose. I know when I get the wrong answer there's no way to tell where I went wrong because my books don't explain it. I get the answer then check in the back of the book to see if I get it right. But the back of the book there's no explanation. Gets annoying sometimes. I...

I don't even know what an ODE is..:redface: But I'm studying high school calculus. I guess right now it'd be in the "Pre-Calculus" section of high school study. I think..high school has what..36 weeks? 2 semesters 18 weeks a piece, in my district at least.

moe darklight, I think that it's meant to be hard and not explained so you can try to apply what you learned in the easy questions to a harder question, that may require an extra step or two, so that you fully understand it. If they explained every problem then once you get to a hard problem...

moe darklight, I used to be just like you. I always did my schoolwork or any type of paperwork with music or tv on. I can't do that anymore though, because now my mind gets too distracted and I end up trying to do two things at once (trying to read something but also trying to listen to the...

Perhaps it'd be easier for me to understand if I knew how to apply math to vectors...:rolleyes: So, what's vector calculus? Is that basically physics..I remember (before I stopped trying to learn physics on my own due to lack of math education :-p), I was doing vectors and there were some...

I'm having a problem. This problem happens to me everytime I do something that gets harder as I progress or something that takes a while to accomplish. So basically I'm reading a self-teaching (sort of) calculus book and trying to learn it. I also have a HUGE problem with math that is too easy...

I looked it up on wikipedia and found a lot of complicated looking equations, so if you're wondering that's why I'm asking you guys. Hoping for a simple explanation :-p