Linear algerbra (1 Viewer)

[ComingUpForAir]

has anyone taken this subect ? hard/easy? wsup

 

[doink]

easy just vectors and matrices.

 

[Uncle]

like simple arithmetic really.

 

[Joel8945]

has anyone taken this subect ? hard/easy? wsup

Doing linear algebra next semester don't know what it will really be like.

I have the text book for it and its all on stuff like vectors and matrices! I haven't really done matrices before so I'll be a little out of my comfort zone compared to calculus 2, but should be fun! Maths is fun!

 

[gcspsp]

maths is the sex!

 

[Ben1220]

Its harder then its name sounds, but its still pretty easy. Just have a look through the text book. Basically Vectors and Matricies, but in a lot more detail then at school.

Linear algebra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Templar]

Depends on whether it's abstract linear algebra, or one that actually has numerical exercises. The latter is easy, the former not quite as easy.

 

[ComingUpForAir]

Doing linear algebra next semester don't know what it will really be like.

I have the text book for it and its all on stuff like vectors and matrices! I haven't really done matrices before so I'll be a little out of my comfort zone compared to calculus 2, but should be fun! Maths is fun!

you dont need to do calc 2 b4 u can do linear algrebra do u??

 

[Ben1220]

you dont need to do calc 2 b4 u can do linear algrebra do u??

At Melbourne Uni I don't think you theoretically have to, but you need both of them for second year subjects, and most people do calc 2 first. If you did calc 1 first and you want to do second year subjects, then you do calc 2 second semester and then linear algebra either in the summer semester or first semester of second year.

 

[ComingUpForAir]

At Melbourne Uni I don't think you theoretically have to, but you need both of them for second year subjects, and most people do calc 2 first. If you did calc 1 first and you want to do second year subjects, then you do calc 2 second semester and then linear algebra either in the summer semester or first semester of second year.

yea, i understand there is no formal requirment, but in terms of course content, is it okay to do calc 1, then lin algerbra/calc 2 in second semester?

 

[Joel8945]

yea, i understand there is no formal requirment, but in terms of course content, is it okay to do calc 1, then lin algerbra/calc 2 in second semester?

There isn't really any formal requirement that you do calc 2 then linear algebra (apart from atleast a 27 in specialist maths or having done calc 1) as both are really mutually exclusive from eachother! If you have seen people do accelerated maths 1 this semester, linear algebra takes a bit out of that and looks at problems a bit simpler.

Calculus 2 is supposed to be simpler as it takes a lot of stuff you learn from high school and extends it to a university level (one reason why I did calc 2 and now linear algebra and the fact that I love calculus), whereas with linear algebra a lot of it is purely university level stuff (i.e. Matrices I personally have never used apart from finding the determinant for a Hessian Matrix to solve multivariable calculus problems). Matrices make up a huge deal of linear algebra and you also look at vectors such as the dot product (yes something looked at in school) and the new cross product which gives you pseudo vectors (something you would have used in rotational motion in physics).

With linear algebra the use of matrices becomes a lot more prominant in further areas of maths, engineering and physics as you learn about tensors (these things we had a brief look at in physics and that we didn't really learn) and matrices can be used for n-dimensional problems.

Well this is what I have heard from people and yeah I reckon linear algebra will be more of a challenge, but, it will be fun.

 

[Ben1220]

There isn't really any formal requirement that you do calc 2 then linear algebra (apart from atleast a 27 in specialist maths or having done calc 1) as both are really mutually exclusive from eachother! If you have seen people do accelerated maths 1 this semester, linear algebra takes a bit out of that and looks at problems a bit simpler.

Calculus 2 is supposed to be simpler as it takes a lot of stuff you learn from high school and extends it to a university level (one reason why I did calc 2 and now linear algebra and the fact that I love calculus), whereas with linear algebra a lot of it is purely university level stuff (i.e. Matrices I personally have never used apart from finding the determinant for a Hessian Matrix to solve multivariable calculus problems). Matrices make up a huge deal of linear algebra and you also look at vectors such as the dot product (yes something looked at in school) and the new cross product which gives you pseudo vectors (something you would have used in rotational motion in physics).

With linear algebra the use of matrices becomes a lot more prominant in further areas of maths, engineering and physics as you learn about tensors (these things we had a brief look at in physics and that we didn't really learn) and matrices can be used for n-dimensional problems.

Well this is what I have heard from people and yeah I reckon linear algebra will be more of a challenge, but, it will be fun.

Matricies were in Methods...
Have a look in your old methods book if you don't remember lol.
Markov chains anyone?
Granted only a basic introduction compared to what will be learnt in Linear Algebra

 

[Studentleader]

Get a good textbook/notes, my linear algebra notes (UWA) were crap.