I kind of got smoked this week on KA. I only ended up watching 4 videos from the section Lagrange Error Bound and didn’t make it through a single exercise. I got destroyed trying to work through he 1 exercise from that section… Even though I made little progress through KA itself, it wasn’t for a lack… Read More Week 172 – Five Hours of Studying, One Tough Exercise, and More Questions
This week was the first time in what feels like forever that I’m actually happy with the amount of material I was able to get through. I only made it through 2 sections but that included 10 videos and 2 exercises. Everything I’ve worked on up until this week from the unit Series has all been review… Read More Week 171 – Back to Calculus: Taylor Series and a New Kind of Challenge
This week I got sick on Tuesday and have been feeling like crap ever since. I think I finally turned a corner this morning which is good, but in total I only got ~1.5 hours of work done on KA this week which added up to 1 exercise and 2 videos. 😔 Even though there’s not much… Read More Week 170 – A Sick Week, a Few Videos, and Keeping the Streak Alive
This week I got through ~3 sections in Series but that only ended up being 4 videos and 3 exercises. Just about everything I worked through this week had to do with testing series to determine if they converge or diverge. The first 3 sections I made it through were titled Comparison Tests, Alternating Series Tests, and Ratio Test. I… Read More Week 169 – A Million Ways to Test Series—and Remember Them All
Before sitting down to write this post, I felt like I had a pretty pitiful week on KA. Looking back through my notes however, I managed to get through 3 sections in Series this week, apart from finishing one last exercise in the third section. The things I’ve been working on in the past few weeks have… Read More Week 168 – Three Sections Down: Pushing Through the Fog of Series
This was one of the weirdest weeks I’ve had working through KA. I managed to get through 8 videos, 1 article (which contained 2 videos in itself) and 4 exercises, yet I barely reached 5 hours of studying in total. I only wrote 14 pages of notes, but almost everything I wrote I marked off… Read More Week 167 – Passing the Exercises, but Understanding Less Than I Thought
I’m happy to say that I passed the Parametric Equations, Polar Coordinates, and Vector-Valued Functions unit test this week (on my first try!) and am now into the FINAL UNIT of calc.2, Series! It took my three days to get through the 15 questions on the unit test. I had to look up 1 or two formulas throughout… Read More Week 166 – Parametric Equations Complete: The Final Unit of Calculus 2!
I sadly did not get through or even start the Parametric Equations, Polar Coordinates, and Vector-Valued Functions unit test this week, BUT I did have a ‘Eureka!’ 💡moment understanding a concept within polar coords that I was very stuck on which completely made up for not finishing the unit! I’m a bit bummed that I didn’t reach… Read More Week 165 – A Eureka Moment with Polar Coordinates: Progress Beyond the Deadline
I had a pretty rough week this week. 😔 I only got through 3 videos on KA and didn’t get through a single exercise. On the plus side, I did get a much stronger grasp on how to interpret r when using polar coordinates and a stronger intuitive understanding that r can be thought of as the hypotenuse of a right… Read More Week 164 – A Rough Week, a Tough Question, and a Lesson in Polar Coordinates
It felt like I was having not a very productive week as I was working through KA this week but in hindsight I actually got quite a bit done. I spent the first few days reviewing trig identities – specifically the angle addition identities – which is what made me feel like I wasn’t making… Read More Week 163 – Trig Identities, Polar Coordinates, and the Search for Understanding