I had another solid week working through the first unit in Multivariable Calculus. Looking back through my notebook, I didn’t write many notes but I definitely got a better understanding of where MC is heading and on what I think are some of the fundamental concepts that will be used. I ended up watching the 12… Read More Week 192 – Multivariable Calculus: A Better Understanding, One Video at a Time
FINALLY! After what feels like forever, I finally had a week of studying where I feel like I got a lot done and actually made some decent progress through KA. 😮💨 It took me until Thursday to wrap up the 3B1B Essence of Linear Algebra playlist and by the end of it I felt like I had a WAY… Read More Week 191 – Four Weeks Later: Back to Calculus with a Better Grasp of Vectors
I made it to the final video in the Essence of Linear Algebra playlist from 3B1B this week but only made it halfway through that final video. My entire week was essentially spent working on understanding the topic of the 12th video which had to do with a concept known as Cramer’s Rule. The sad part is after… Read More Week 190 – Cramer’s Rule: A Week of Work, but Still No Intuition
I feel like I didn’t get much done this week but did get a solid grasp on what’s known as ‘the determinant’ in linear algebra. Although I’m bummed I didn’t learn about much else, I think the determinant of matrices will be really important to understand going forward so I’m happy to now better understand… Read More Week 189 – Determinants: Learning How They Work Before Why They Work
I essentially made zero progress on Multivariable Calculus this week, but I still had a fairly productive week and am pretty happy with what I was able to learn. My goal was to get through the next few sections of the first unit in MC and I didn’t even make it through the first one, Dot Products. I… Read More Week 188 – No Progress in Calculus, but a New Understanding of Vectors
I had a pretty slow week this week and didn’t get too much done. About 95% of my week was spent working on how to solve the area inside of polar coordinate functions. (Not sure if that’s how to properly say that…) I spent two days reviewing trig identities which are my absolute nemesis but,… Read More Week 187 – Polar Coordinates, Trig Identities, and a Welcome Change
This week I reviewed two concepts, vectors (i.e. position on a Cartesian plane) and polar coordinates. Both concepts made WAY more sense to me this time around which I’m really happy about, but in a certain way I feel like I didn’t make much progress this week since I didn’t learn anything new. I also… Read More Week 186 – Revisiting Old Math: When Vectors and Polar Coordinates Finally Click
Surprisingly I managed to get through the remaining 14 question on the course challenge this week and only got one wrong! Meaning my final score was 27/30 correct, a.k.a. 90%, a.k.a. the minimum necessary score I gave to myself to move forward, which means I’m FINALLY moving on to Multivariable Calculus!!! 🥳🎉🎊 I started Calc.2 in Week… Read More Week 185 – Calculus 2 Complete! A Major Milestone After 3.5 Years
I only made it through 17/30 questions this week on the Calculus 2 course challenge which was pretty disappointing, but on the plus side I only got two wrong! I took quite a bit of time on most of the questions but didn’t come up against any where I felt like I had no understanding of what… Read More Week 184 – Calculus 2: 17 Questions Down, 13 to Go!
FINALLY!!! 😤 I finally made it through the Series unit test this week. It took me two tries to get through it this week but only ended up getting two questions wrong on my first attempt. Going through the questions, I felt like I had a pretty good understanding of what I was being asked and, for the most… Read More Week 183 – Series Complete: Fourteen Weeks in the Making!