Course Definition and 958 Threads

Anybody know the name of the MIT course number for Abstract Algebra . Is it even listed as a course on the MIT opencourseware website?

I am curious: I will have option to take grad courses as an undergrad; the ones I would like: Mathematical Physics, Advanced E&M. I will also have the ability to take a grad math course: nonlinear partial differential equations. Keeping in mind lab experience, how good would this look if I...

Hello. A few things first: I have been trying to figure this out off and on for at least half a year and only come up with hack-jobs, most of which either worked poorly or not at all. My math skills are rusty and my memory forgets formulas easily. Although my current problem involves...

Hello, all. I am trying to decide between a mathematics major and a physics major. I am thinking of taking the following course: MTH 210 Communicating in Mathematics. Here is the course description: A study of proof techniques used on mathematics. Intensive practice in reading...

Hi everybody, i will be soon starting my studings at Texas Lutheran University, in particular this spring semester. My classes begin on 15 january, so i thought to make a list of courses that i will take on my first year as a freshman there. I will be studing mathematics. I do not yet know for...

I completed a study of Michael Spivak's Calculus recently. If I want to broaden my mathematics knowledge to the point where I can take a rigorous differential geometry course at a nearby university (I think they are using a differential geometry book also by Spivak), what should I do over the...

I am reading Barton Zwiebach's 'A First Course in String Theory'. I expect I will finish up in about a month. Not that I understand it that well. I will put it aside and perhaps read it again in a couple of years. I took a peek at the book 'String Theory in a Nutshell' by Elias Kiritsis and...

If a student wanted to do well for a course, he should ask the lecturer before hand about the course and prepare for it before the semester. What sort of questions should the student ask the lecturer?

First, I did a general search on this topic here on Physics Forums, and found little useful information. Second, I know many of you are quite adamant in your dislike of online courses, but I'm in the military, so I take what I can get. On-campus courses are just not possible at this time. And...

I'm sure many of us don't need a teacher to learn a specific math subject, just a good textbook. Self-studying allows us to learn at our own pace, rather than at the pace the teacher sets for the whole class, though the pace we choose for ourselves may not be the correct pace. We can also...

Homework Statement Find the general indefinite integral of sinx/1-(sinx)^2 The Attempt at a Solution I arrived at tanxsecx(dx), rewrote it as sinx(1/cos^2 x) = cosxtanx = sinx However, I know that the correct answer is secx. WHY? Can anyone explain why using trig functions (ie, without using...

Hello. This question may be hard to desribe for people who do not go to my school and know the courses but i will try. I am going to include course descriptions from the coursebook below. Anyway, i am a sophmore physics major at Carnegie Mellon University. Let me add that i am doing an...

This is a very long story; please bare with me! I am a first year undergrad student nearing the end of the year. I am from South Africa (at the University of Cape Town). The way it is here, is that for your undergrad degree, it is standard to take two or one majors. In first year you take 4...

I hear from advisors that it's better to take less rigorous classes in the summer because the course tends to go quite fast. I'm planning on taking Pre-Calculus in the summer so I can take Calculus in the regular school year next year. What are the risks? Any feedback or advice from those who've...

Hey, I'm in Grade 12 Physics in York Region School Board (Bayview SS) and I was talking to one of my friends who took the course and he said that the questions the teacher will give is much harder than anything in the book. In other words I'm looking to find more challanging questions for the...

I am asking a question...hope that someone could help me. I plan to sit in IISc examination for Physics MSc-PhD course entrance to be held in 2008. They have a criteriaon that one has to score atleast 60% in university exam.IISc exam is held before our final year (3rd year) examination...

I am a very good math student and trig is something that clicks to me. However, my main problem is actually understanding the question. There are two questions which I don't understand from an English point of view. Homework Statement Question 1: A man surveying a mine measures a length...

Hi, I am taking FINITE ELEMENT METHOD and NUMERICAL METHOD in this semester of my college and I am looking for any ONLINE COURSE on them, if available, at reasonable price (or student price). If anybody here can suggest me about it then it would be appreciated so much. I wonder if there...

Hi, I am taking this course: I am going to use some additionals books along with the course book ("Linear Algebra with Applications" by Keith. So, wondering if anyone can suggest me some good books? If you have time, can you see list of these books,and try picking good ones.. here...

im thinking of taking in 2008 the second semester a course in analysis of manifolds. now some of the preliminaries although not obligatory, are differnetial geometry and topology, i will not have them at that time, so i think to learn it by my own, will baby rudin and adult rudin books will...

Toronto:Can I take the entire ENG 4U course for summer school and graduate this year? I can not take ENG 4U during the school year and I have to graduate this year. Can I take the entire ENG 4U course for summer school and graduate this year? This question is for people who live in Toronto or...

I decided to take AP Chemistry but since the AP scores for the teacher at my school are spectacularly low, I decided to take it outside of school in an independent studies program my school offers. I expected the teacher to be more competent than my school's but, 3 weeks in, I have not had a...

Homework Statement the 2 kg ball is fired from point a with an Vo of 10 m/s up the smooth inclined plane. The angle is 37 degrees, it gives me the planes dimentions the ball rolls on, it is 1.5 m high and 2 m wide. It asks the distance in the x it lands. Also the velocity with which it...

ILC chemistry course grade 12... anyone taking it?? I'm on Unit 2 and i need help with some experiments...anyone here taking that course?help would be appreciated... thnx:redface:

What can you say about struggling hard to learn a Mathematics course while you are "young", not succeeding, but learning the same course effectively, later, when you are "not as young"? Meanwhile, you studied other Mathematics courses with acceptable success, but NOT that particular one with...

I am about to graduate as a mechanical engineer this coming August. I wish to further my study in physics. I wonder is it possible to change field since what I am about to obtain is a bachelor degree in engineering? I am really interested in physics but back then I had no choice. I do...

Hope this is the right place for this...Just wondering what you guys think about modern algebra course. Is it impossibly difficult? Is it fine? Extremely difficult to comprehend? Workload in general? I've taken math until Linear Algebra, and do to some circumstances, I'm looking at taking modern...

I'm thinking about taking the math GRE in December but I've never studied abstract algebra--all this about rings and groups just flies right over my head. Can anyone recommend a good introductory book? I'm thinking one of the Dover works might be good since they seem to emphasize problem...

I am registering for a mechanics course for the fall semester, and would like to know what math to review to prepare myself. The course description is as folows: Thanks

I have got a begginner's course in computer organisation this semester. The course consists of the basic stuff like types of memories and memory hierarchy with the detailed description of each etc etc. Now, what i really don't get is memmory mapping and how exactly data is read and written on...

Hi! I am signing up to take my first course in complex analysis this upcoming semester at my university. One of the professors with whom I am interested in taking the class is using Complex Analysis 2nd edition by Bak & Newman and the other one is using Complex Variables & Applications 7th...

Hi! I am signing up to take a second course in linear algebra this upcoming semester at my university. Among the professors with whom I would like to take the class, one is using one book and the rest another. The one is using Linear Algebra & It's Applications 4th edition by Gilbert Strang...

Hi, I will be starting my third year as an engineering science major at UCSD. Fall quarter starts in a few months so I need to know my course electives so I can take necessary preqrequisites. I would like to know what areas in applied mechanics/mechanical engineering/engineering science is...

Institute to course?? This is my situation.(I am making it very general). I am in the process of taking admission in my First Year Engineering(undergraduate). I sat for one of the examinations down here(BITSAT) and scored a 339/450. When this score is compared to last years cut-off's i...

Hello, I need to build a toy car, that will perform the following task: Go in a staight line for 5 meters, then follow a semi-circunference (or just turn 180 degrees, but not a about-turn) and go back another 5meters, the turning is around a cone: _____________________________________ --->...

Have any of you heard of this online Linear Algebra course offered at BYU? Has anyone here taken it? I believe it's called Math 343 - Elementary Linear Algebra. I'm thinking about it taking it alongside my other classes next semester.

ok I am planning on taking a calculus and Anaylytic Gemometry 1 course at a community college during the summer and its 31 days long, 4 days a week, eah day being 4 hours in the classroom learning the material so do you guys think the professor might teach the course real fast and how...

Greetings everyone. I’m interested in spending some of my free time this summer trying to teach myself Calculus in preparation for college this fall. I spent a great deal of time searching for used textbooks on amazon.com and decided to go with “Calculus” 7th edition by Larson Hostetler and...

Hello all, I am taking a linear algebra course at my university this fall. This course is used as a transition to more proof-orientated courses. From what I hear, this course is one where students generally do poorly if they lack the ability to construct proofs. I don't have much experience...

i was reading about pulse jets and ram jets as part of my course on jet propulsion. all i was told was that they are aero-thermo-dynamic-ducts. couldn't understand what they mean. checked google, but the articles i got were vague. could someone explain what aero-thermo-dynamic-ducts are?

I'm in a bit of a dilemma. Should I withdraw from my proofs course or risk failure of the course by doing terrible in the final exam. It's a pass/fail course. Does withdrawing look bad?

My school district has finally opened up the option to us of taking a summer course (not remedial) in order to get ahead a level, and if you take a math class over the summer, you will be given a math placement test at the end to see if you will stay on track with the rest of the peopl who...

the course is for high school upperclassmen, it is a design of experiments/ statistics class. i am a biologist with a math minor, so i need to brush up on my stats, specifically statistics with respect to testing, i am interested in anyone with any kind of advice for helping me to hit the ground...

Hello everyone. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions. Well I should be graduating this spring if every went to plan. But of course it didn't. I started going to school in 2003 as a Software Engineering major, got hurt took a year off for recovery, went back to school as a computer...

Is it possible to take calculus II online for college credit over the summer? If possible, could you you suggest some programs.

Ok thhe follwoing questio is extremely silly. everything else that I've read in the book makes sense but this part doesn't. i just can't seem to udnerstand it because of a combination of stupidity and notation. Near the end of page 69 an identity is derived to show how the components of the...

I am currently taking an introductory QM course...well, first...I find my prof is of no help at all...he's really bad at explaining concepts...and can't even speak English. So...I am basically learning on my own. I understand the stuffs he talk in his lectures, but when the assignments come...

I was wondering what book would be useful in learning special relativity and basic general relativity. I know vector calculus, multivariable calculus, and a bit of variational calculus. I'm looking for something that takes an informal approach to the underlying mathematics(but still rigorous)...

How difficult is a College Level General Chemistry I class? I took Honors Chem in 10th grade under a very good teacher (30+ years in Chemistry field) but don't have that fond of a memory of the field. My little brother is currently taking a Chemistry class so I have his notes/book to go over...

I want to eventually do quantum physics (or some aspect of theoretical physics), so naturally I will be doing linear algebra after I finish my calc sequence, however, my school offers a course called 'College Matrix Algebra' and the only pre-req is Intermediate Algebra. Would this benefit me at...