Posted by alexandra_k on January 6, 2014, at 0:02:17
In reply to Re: oh my, posted by alexandra_k on January 5, 2014, at 1:30:05
holy crap.
we had the math tut before the math lecture. my pre-theoretic intuitions are wrong. way wrong. the calculations (pythagoras theorum) show them so. apparently. ah... the world is made of triangles, or something. or... it is easier if we assume it to be so? guess i need to learn pythagoras theorum. maths tutor was a nice female masters student. she seemed kind and helpful.
and how to do simple (they call them) proofs in algebra.
the lecture went woosh! for 2 hours. over... hopefully a summary of most of the semesters content? i hope that was what that was. hello cartesian co-ordinates :-/
the physics guy seemed nice. he wrote everything down and worked slowly. unlike the math guy who kept talking while we were writing and telling us we had all fallen asleep when we weren't computing while writing while drawing the model FFS!!!
i... can't think in class. not when it is the first time i've encountered. need to put myself somewhere dark and quiet and work through it individually for a couple hours (at least) first. the maths lectures seem to be a disorganised mess...
physics guy took us through units of measurement. conversion equations. ah. fractions. i remember them sort of (not really).
i think all that matters is whether we can do the equations in reasonably good time.
i need to remember the aim isn't for me to ace these classes... it is more about giving me some practice with numbers (which will hopefully help my chem) and preparing me for physics. physics guy said sit back and take it in... it will make so much more sense the next class... i'll let the maths people dazzle me with their speedy correctness :-/ i never was particularly good at logic... but at least i see brackets in their functions which makes me feel happy(ish)
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