I got my ass kicked this week KA-wise and health-wise. 😒 I got through a whopping FIVE questions on the course challenge, getting 4/5 correct which is the only thing I can be ‘proud’ of this week. I also didn’t watch any videos from the Steve Brunton playlist I talked about in my last two posts. So… Read More Week 252 – Five Questions, Four Correct, and Another Difficult Week

Although I got my butt kicked this week on KA trying to get through the Multivariable Calculus Course, I’m happy with my overall effort this week and what I was able to learn. I only got through seven questions on the C.C. but watched five videos from the Engineering Math: Vector Calculus and Partial Derivative Equations playlist made by… Read More Week 251 – A Tough Course Challenge, a New Perspective, and a Better Week

I’m incredibly relieved to say that this was the best week I’ve had on KA in literally months. I FINALLY finished the Green’s, Stokes’, and the Divergence Theorems unit test and, even more surprisingly, actually think I’ve gotten over the hump of understanding the gradient, curl, and divergence operations in vector calculus. The tipping point came after… Read More Week 250 – 20 Weeks Later, Vector Calculus Finally Starts to Click!

This week compared to the past few weeks wasn’t too bad. I didn’t study for five hours which is always my goal, so in that sense it was a fail, but I made it through a bunch of videos and three exercises, AND surprised myself by getting the correct solution to all the questions in… Read More Week 249 – Three Exercises, a Perfect First Attempt, and Signs of Progress

I had another pitiful, write-off type of week on KA. I watched eight videos and attempted one exercise on Green’s Theorem but didn’t pass the exercise. I’ll go into more detail below, but I still don’t have a great understanding of what the hell is happening with G.T. which is super disappointing considering I’ve been… Read More Week 248 – Green’s Theorem: Better at Reading the Math, Still Struggling to Solve It

I got through the Unit Test in Green’s, Stokes’, and the Divergence Theorems a grand total of ONE time this week and got most of the questions wrong. I also didn’t make any notes on any of the questions I worked through, at least not any notes that were worth adding to this post. Based off my… Read More Week 247 – A Failed Test, Lost Momentum, and a Tough Stretch

This past week was once again not a very productive week for me working through KA. I only spent two or three hours on KA which is pathetic and abysmal. I made notes on the series of videos I worked on last week, which was a proof for the divergence theorem, but that’s all I… Read More Week 246 – A Difficult Week, but a Better Grasp of the Notation

Of all the subpar weeks I’ve had over the last few months, this week was up there for one of the worst. I did manage to watch all the remaining eight videos, so technically I’m through all the content in Green’s, Stokes’, and the Divergence Theorems, but I didn’t know what was going on in the… Read More Week 245 – All the Videos Watched, but Still Lost in Vector Calculus

The good news is I made it through seven videos this week, but the bad news is that they were a single series of videos all working through one question and that’s all I managed to get through, AND I didn’t really figure out why the solution works or how the math leading to the solution works.… Read More Week 244 – Seven Videos, One Problem, and a Little More Understanding

It was another mediocre week for me on KA. I “finished” the final exercise from the Divergence Theorem section, but I knew all four solutions to the questions from having seen them all before, so I didn’t have to actually apply myself to understand the questions and finish the exercise. I read all three articles from the… Read More Week 243 – The Divergence Theorem: Making Progress, Still Searching for Why