Warning: math geek alert. Read at your own discretion.
I swear, everyday in Math 101 there's something new and interesting. Last class we were doing something I was looking forward to for a while - arc lengths. Ever since calc 12 I was wondering how the heck you'd do something like that and even recently I got a bit farther (figured out that dL = sqrt(dx^2 + dy^2)), but didn't know how to finish the calculation. Well, we just learned it last Wednesday and I'm amazed at how it works, because you need both a derivative and an integral in order to figure it out.
Well, today we did inverse trig functions. We did them last year, but never got into how exactly d(arctan x)/dx = (1+x^2)^-1, etc. It's just so cool how it works, using the fact that f(g(x)), where g is the inverse of f, is equal to x. I can't wait for taylor expansions and integration by parts.
Anyway, I'm done being a complete math nerd now.
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It's-a me!
- Matt
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- I can be a lot of things. I can be a university student that's going to be in his second year of university taking software engineering. I can be a musician that plays guitar and bass, and does some composing or arranging on the side. I can be a math or science nerd that makes plenty of calculus jokes, whether you want me to or not. I can be a hardcore gamer, as well as an Apple and Nintendo fanboy (though not nearly as bad as some people are). I can be a guy that tries to follow Christ with all his might. I can be just an all-around good guy to talk to. But most of all, I can be me, and that's probably the most important thing I can be.
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