Ok so it's not the night before xmas, but I do have my first final exam in a couple of days.
Math 235: Technical Calculus.
I stand at 95%.
If I score 0 on the final I get 56.9% in the class.
I stand at 95%.
If I score 0 on the final I get 56.9% in the class.
Monday afternoon. 2 hours. 8 or so questions
Indefinete Integrals
Finding the integration constant
Definite Integrals
Finding areas between curves, horizontally and vertically
Displacement/velocity
Charge and Voltage
Work by a variable force
-Spring work
-winding work
-electrical charges work
Force on a submerged surface.
I am ready to go. Mostly. It is all laid out in black and white. I know what I need to know. I know how to do them. It really should be among the easist of the exams.
I have two goals
1) Not to lower my mark
2) BEAT RAJ!!!!! :D
We got our quizzes back from math class on Friday. I got 98% on it. It was out of 20, I got 19.5
The 1/2 mark? Question 1) Determine the area between the curves a) Find the interesections of 3x^2 and x^3. No trouble. X = 3, Y = 27. 3,27. I go to draw the graph and determine that they also meet at 0,0 even though the formula dosen't give it. Oh well I use it anyhow, but do not write it for an answer on part A. Part B was to sketch the graph.
1/2 mark off.
Yee circled the s on interesctions and drew red arrows at my 0,0 points on my graph to illustrate it was an intersection point.
The kicker? Raj: 19.5/ 20, where does he lose his 1/2 mark? The EXACT same place.
He will be a tough one to beat on the final exam. I am expecting him to write a near perfect test.
In other school news we wrote our Geophysics and Geology lab exams this week. We started with geology and so I will start with geology here as well.
We got our contour labs back a few days before the test. We got back the lab but not the contour maps. I determined from my 54/60 on that lab that I have no clue how to draw faults on contour maps. No problem. I can figure it out. When I go to learn them using the lab...I discover we didn't get the maps back. Now it is useless all it does is tell me I don't know how! :D
So I did as much research and applied as much logic as I could to it and made my best concept of drawing faults on the test, hopefully it is correct.
Identifying rocks, no trouble.
Correlating strata, no trouble.
Original Oil in Place Calculation (OOIP) no trouble...OR maybe not.
In the lab the scale was 1 cm = .25 miles Pretty straight forward Cm * .25 = Miles. The lab test stated 1cm = 1.1 miles and we were given cm. I multiplied and did the rest. I was talking to Cody who had talked to the rest of the class, a lot of which divided. Upon talking to Raj he is pretty convinced John had reversed the scale. 1.1cm = 1 mile. CRAP. I will lose some marks for that one. Otherwise it went pretty well.
Geophysics very straightforward, mostly calculations, finding velocities from slopes.
Indefinete Integrals
Finding the integration constant
Definite Integrals
Finding areas between curves, horizontally and vertically
Displacement/velocity
Charge and Voltage
Work by a variable force
-Spring work
-winding work
-electrical charges work
Force on a submerged surface.
I am ready to go. Mostly. It is all laid out in black and white. I know what I need to know. I know how to do them. It really should be among the easist of the exams.
I have two goals
1) Not to lower my mark
2) BEAT RAJ!!!!! :D
We got our quizzes back from math class on Friday. I got 98% on it. It was out of 20, I got 19.5
The 1/2 mark? Question 1) Determine the area between the curves a) Find the interesections of 3x^2 and x^3. No trouble. X = 3, Y = 27. 3,27. I go to draw the graph and determine that they also meet at 0,0 even though the formula dosen't give it. Oh well I use it anyhow, but do not write it for an answer on part A. Part B was to sketch the graph.
1/2 mark off.
Yee circled the s on interesctions and drew red arrows at my 0,0 points on my graph to illustrate it was an intersection point.
The kicker? Raj: 19.5/ 20, where does he lose his 1/2 mark? The EXACT same place.
He will be a tough one to beat on the final exam. I am expecting him to write a near perfect test.
In other school news we wrote our Geophysics and Geology lab exams this week. We started with geology and so I will start with geology here as well.
We got our contour labs back a few days before the test. We got back the lab but not the contour maps. I determined from my 54/60 on that lab that I have no clue how to draw faults on contour maps. No problem. I can figure it out. When I go to learn them using the lab...I discover we didn't get the maps back. Now it is useless all it does is tell me I don't know how! :D
So I did as much research and applied as much logic as I could to it and made my best concept of drawing faults on the test, hopefully it is correct.
Identifying rocks, no trouble.
Correlating strata, no trouble.
Original Oil in Place Calculation (OOIP) no trouble...OR maybe not.
In the lab the scale was 1 cm = .25 miles Pretty straight forward Cm * .25 = Miles. The lab test stated 1cm = 1.1 miles and we were given cm. I multiplied and did the rest. I was talking to Cody who had talked to the rest of the class, a lot of which divided. Upon talking to Raj he is pretty convinced John had reversed the scale. 1.1cm = 1 mile. CRAP. I will lose some marks for that one. Otherwise it went pretty well.
Geophysics very straightforward, mostly calculations, finding velocities from slopes.
He had the graph drawn and we just needed to calculate the slopes. No big deal but the graph was pretty fine and the dots were pretty big. I did the best I could. The last question calculated cross over distance which is the point on the TX graph where the 2 lines meet. It was at 500m. My calculation based on my velocities? 697m. I won't tell you my exact words, but they were not pretty. I abandoned the question and finished the rest of the test with no trouble. I still had 40 minutes left. I went back erased the entire diagram and picked new points. For the steep graph I picked the crossover point and 0,0. For the less steep one I used the cross over point and a very obvious point on the graph. End calculation? 524m. Close enough.
I do not believe I did SUPER SUPER great on these but I don't think they will hurt my mark. We have the finals next week, so far I have found them fairly easy to score close to 100% on so hopefully that dosen't change. I just need to learn well logging. :D
Fortunately I have a plethora of flash card and a working random question generator.
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