wht calculus are you doing?


im doing a degree in maths

anything i can help with?

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I just finished calculus 2, which means we've learned all the basic derivation techniques for inverse trigs, regular trigs, natural logs, and other regular variables of course. We also learnt all kinds of integration techniques (trig sub, trig identity, substitution, fractional decomposition etc.). We finished the year with the four basic types of differential equations. I begin power series and vector calculus in the fall, should be fun I don't need all that much help, but thank you very much for the offer
Nice to hear that you're doing math, where are you taking it from?

i remember that stuff!! if only my life was that simply now!!

at uni i am studying fluid & gas dynamics, dynamical simulation, numerical methods( - i hate this) and lots of other nasty things!!

one thing i can tell you now is that the stuff you are learning now, most of it is not used much at higher level.

When i was at college i did 6 a-levels, 3 sciences and 3 different types of maths.

i wish you the best

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~Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world~

~Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers..~

thanks

How's your summer going so far? Are you working?

Are you still writing?

So many questions.

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Have Interesting Failures.

Summer's going great, but work began before finals were even over, so I've yet to have a 'real' break. Though I suppose just about anything beats finals, eh?
Yeah I'm working in a Student Summer Research position at the University. We're cutting fiberoptic fibers to 2.0m with a tolerance of less than 1.0mm and then gluing them to a coupler/collet/head (we aren't sure what they're actually called so they have several names) with optical cement, a kind of mega-glue. The glued fibers are then shipped to TRIUMF (a Physics group in Vancouver I believe) where they're being assembled as a part of a particle accelerator, which is, at some point, going to be shipped to Japan (I think) and used to do some experiments on Neutrino Oscillation (it's called the T2K project).
And yes I'm still writing, though I put it on hold a little bit this year. I've started again after finals ended and I've found myself, for the first time, obsessing over concise grammar.
CURSE YOU UNIVERSITY ENGLISH! CURSE YOU! (although obsessing over grammar is never a bad thing)
How about your summer? Are you working and if so where?
(sorry about that essay of a response @.@)

Goddamn it ate my response.

That's awesome. Is the work or machinery very complex? Do you get to learn about particle accelerators?

One of my uncles works there at the TRIUMF - he's the guy who keeps all the electronics of the actual machine in working order.

Hey I had english 135 too. I now know how to use a semicolon properly; however, it's the only thing I learned. Grammar is a good thing but don't let it bog you down! I'm looking forward to more of your work.

I'm working for an Oil and Gas company Way Up In The Godawful Middle Of Nowhere in Spirit River and also here in Calgary. Up north I assist well operators, and down here, where I've been for the past couple of weeks, has been mostly filing, and little bit of website programming for the last couple of days. I'm heading 10 bus-hours north in two days, and staying up for two weeks or so.

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Have Interesting Failures.

No the machinery isn't very complex, the prof's are really careful with their funds so we cut corners everywhere we can (we ship them in cardboard grooves for example). In terms of learning about particle accelerators not so much. We do know a little bit about what role the fibers will play though. They've got a mirror on one side and will effectively (when an electron strikes them) allow a photon to travel up their length and stimulate the photoreceptor they'll be plugged into. I've read a little bit about it, but most of it's way over my head. That's cool that your uncle works at TRIUMF; is he an Electronics Engineer?
It's pretty sweet that you're already working with an Oil and Gas company, although the middle of nowhere sounds a little less pleasant. Ouch about that bus ride you're taking though :\

Yeah he's an Electronics Engineer. I don't see him very often and when I do he doesn't talk a lot about his work there though.

Being OUT there is nice, but it's the travel which is horrible. Whenever I sleep on those goddamn buses my eyes dry out and I don't know why. It's a terrible sensation when you wake up and your eyes won't open because your eyelids are stuck to your goddamn eyeballs.

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Have Interesting Failures.