Maths recommendation.
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I dont want to die young :laugh:
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I presume you un univoted me. Thanks But really, how hard is sums? Look it is all just algebra and functions, and once you get that then all is clear.
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I could swear I did the first time around! Rectified.
Dalek Dave wrote:
But really, how hard is sums?
I don't find them hard, but some were quite tedious. Some of the expansions and transforms that we did back in school.. a recipe for a headache. However, when I first tackled my MS degree, I was dumbstruck by how much harder it was for me to do, what I previously considered simple, calculus. I am certain it was due to my lack of practice.
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I meant the 2.1 and 2.2 :)
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I meant the 2.1 and 2.2 :)
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I clicked the thumb up though like all comments so far :doh: You deserve a 5 I am trying to click them and it appears to be working.
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Sadly I have looked there, just seems to be too much association with maths terms I am not familiar with ie: "The vector resolute (also known as the vector projection) of two vectors, A in the direction of B (also A on B")" ... tells me that a projection is a direction between two vectors... The math symbols used some of which I know (dot product for example I know returns a number representing a vectors direction ie 0), but make it hard for me to just look at and understand :(
Ultimately, what it means is that a vector projection is nothing more than the compound of two vectors. An analogy. Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact. Easy, eh? :)
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I meant the 2.1 and 2.2 :)
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All modules at 'just passed' except the finals, which were boosted by the oral digression and the essays. My finals were a little bland and normal, I feel I am far better at physics than my degree shows, but I can't prove it.
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Ultimately, what it means is that a vector projection is nothing more than the compound of two vectors. An analogy. Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact. Easy, eh? :)
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Only easy in conventional physics. Now try it at the quantum level! :) Wonderful....One of them turns into a whale and the other, a bowl of petunias!
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I dont want to die young :laugh:
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All modules at 'just passed' except the finals, which were boosted by the oral digression and the essays. My finals were a little bland and normal, I feel I am far better at physics than my degree shows, but I can't prove it.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
All modules at 'just passed' except the finals, which were boosted by the oral digression and the essays.
OK, Gotcha
Dalek Dave wrote:
which were boosted by the oral digression
That sounds a bit... racy and more like a bribe! :-D
Dalek Dave wrote:
My finals were a little bland and normal, I feel I am far better at physics than my degree shows, but I can't prove it.
I can sympathize with that.
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Only easy in conventional physics. Now try it at the quantum level! :) Wonderful....One of them turns into a whale and the other, a bowl of petunias!
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Ah, but that's when you break out the bistro mathematics and the cup of coffee...
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Ultimately, what it means is that a vector projection is nothing more than the compound of two vectors. An analogy. Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact. Easy, eh? :)
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact.
Very easy to understand :D So a ball falling from the sky at an angle when it hits the projection would be the vector that the ball will "bounce" towards?
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Two billiard balls approaching each other. Upon collision, if we were to consider only one of them, what is the new vector it results with, due to the impact, starting at the point of impact.
Very easy to understand :D So a ball falling from the sky at an angle when it hits the projection would be the vector that the ball will "bounce" towards?
Correct :) To be pedantic, the "ball falling from the sky at an angle" is the ball and its vector details, the angle being the direction in 2D/3D space (depending on how you see it) and upon "impact" with another vector (even an immobile has a vector) results with a projection, again each one has a projection.
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Apparently my thinking apparatus is having a little trouble today, because I don't see any connection between engineering, medicine and dance, other than that they all appear in your post.
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Some more subconsciously than others.
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Some more subconsciously than others.
The best lesson I ever had... I want you to observe an object falling through space, then , having observed, enable via an interaction, immediately, to interject a second object, freely, to interupt the ballistic path of the first object, and, by doing so, cessate the conclusion of its path, taking into consideration such divers data as freefall path, gravity, air resistance and procedural lagging and show, through empirical means, that such an interaction is both possible and, via completion, achievable, in a time frame that is shorter than that achievable by the frame available to that of concious thought. It was easy... Catch!
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I am about to start University for a Computer Science degree however my maths skills are not great (GCSE level 2) as I haven't done A levels maths... Maths has always been a struggle for me as the tutors seemed more concerned on the "higher" students than "middle grade"... Can anyone recommend a on-line resource or book for learning some maths higher than GCSE level 2 as allot of algorithm books (especially game development books) contain lots of wonderful symbols and structure which I do not know (or know how to search for them as I do not know the names)? :-D
Well I'm pretty sure that GCSE maths will get you through the course, and if it helps I did A-Level maths and still have trouble understanding all the crazy symbols they throw in. Even knowing the symbols it's still a struggle to figure out what all of the variables are. I've still not found much use for any of the maths I learned at A-Level and it's all slowly slipping away. GCSE Physics and algebra on the other hand are most definitely useful.
My current favourite word: Harsh!
-SK Genius
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Well I'm pretty sure that GCSE maths will get you through the course, and if it helps I did A-Level maths and still have trouble understanding all the crazy symbols they throw in. Even knowing the symbols it's still a struggle to figure out what all of the variables are. I've still not found much use for any of the maths I learned at A-Level and it's all slowly slipping away. GCSE Physics and algebra on the other hand are most definitely useful.
My current favourite word: Harsh!
-SK Genius
When I did old fashioned O Levels I found it what is what they are doing at A Levels today. Serious slippage!
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Well I'm pretty sure that GCSE maths will get you through the course, and if it helps I did A-Level maths and still have trouble understanding all the crazy symbols they throw in. Even knowing the symbols it's still a struggle to figure out what all of the variables are. I've still not found much use for any of the maths I learned at A-Level and it's all slowly slipping away. GCSE Physics and algebra on the other hand are most definitely useful.
My current favourite word: Harsh!
-SK Genius
I done my Maths GCSE 3 years ago, I use very little of it however some simple 2D game physics (Velocity, Gravity, friction...) I can do. I have even managed to figure out a "Verlet rigid body" (ragdoll) without understanding the maths but I feel somewhat a cheat by doing it in software instead of its core mechanics ;P
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I done my Maths GCSE 3 years ago, I use very little of it however some simple 2D game physics (Velocity, Gravity, friction...) I can do. I have even managed to figure out a "Verlet rigid body" (ragdoll) without understanding the maths but I feel somewhat a cheat by doing it in software instead of its core mechanics ;P
And yet I need the maths more now that I am doing my degree in Evolutionary Biology than anything else I have ever done. Sure, as an accountant, I use a lot of Arithmatics, but it is only now I am doing a lot of set theory, ecological constaint mechanics and reproductive mathematics that all the shot I learnt a hundred years ago is becoming important.
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