Can I Learn It By Monday?? (1 Viewer)

[mathock]

does anybody have any idea with conics?? my class is terrible at it, theres one guy that is really good at that one topic and not much else, and hes a bit weird lol... do i have any chance of grasping the concept by monday??

 

[ngai]

nup
well probably not anyway

 

[Supra]

hmm no point jus go thru wot u know and then make sure u do all that real well...jus hope the conics q is pretty easy and u shud actually b fine, have a look at conics tho but dont waste too much time

 

[mathock]

ah im really confident with everything else, i got 70 in the trial, even tho i managed to screw up conics... oh id love to have another week to study

 

[utopia_parkway]

for sure you can, just work hard at it. non of the topics are really that hard as long as you do enough questions to get the fell of it.

well that my 2 cents worth

 

[Shuter]

Course you can, believe me I need to learn alot more than just conics i.e. 75% of the course.

 

[mathock]

haha sounds like me and shuter are dragging the chain a bit organisation is one virtue that has always alluded me

 

[Shuter]

Yep, organisation and specifically motivation has been my weak points.

Natural ability has got me this far, just need to ride it out for another 2 weeks!

 

[Estel]

organisation is one virtue that has always alluded me

an amusing malapropism

 

[grimreaper]

lol i learnt conics the day before my midcourse and ended up getting 52/60 for the test... So its somewhat difficult, but possible

 

[Rorix]

it's real simple dude
(a+b) + c = a + b + c
(a)(b) = ab

with those axioms down pat you're set for conics

 

[Mill]

There really isn't all that much theory to conics. 2-3 hours and you could pretty much absorb it. Then the more difficult questions are basically of the same format as the parabola stuff from HMX.

Although you left it a little late to do that 2-3 hours.

 

[McLake]

Don't bother. If you know everything else well you should be fine ...

 

[jumb]

theres one guy that is really good at that one topic and not much else, and hes a bit weird lol

sounds like me

Conics is alright if you understand parametrics. Its mostly formula's anyway.

Also, you need to learn how to implicit differentiate.

 

[BillyMak]

If you know how to do algebra and you can use implicit differentiation there is no reason why you can't go well in Conics.

EDIT: And the basic formulas for it, ie Foci are (ae,0) and (-ae,0) etc.

 

[BillyMak]

Hmm.... now that I think about it, what are the equations for the asymptotes of a hyperbola? Is it y = +/- (bx/a) ?

 

[CrashOveride]

y = +- bx/a is for x^2/a^2 - y^2/b^2 = 1
then when u interchange x and y, its y=+-ax/b

 

[BillyMak]

Good... thought so

cheers.

 

[paganinio]

next Thursday I'll have a Conics exam, but now I can hardly work out a problem on the paper given by my teacher

 

[withoutaface]

next Thursday I'll have a Conics exam, but now I can hardly work out a problem on the paper given by my teacher

Conics is one of those things you just have to work on, especially the locus stuff. Go through some problems in Cambridge, and if you can get them out then you can do anything