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If there is one class that will make you want to flee the engineering program while wetting yourself and vomiting, this is it. However, the concepts and tools you learn will be very relevant to your future courses, and if you take the time to study, the exercises will help you immensely throughout your entire degree. But this doesn't negate the point that this is the most ass-reaming course you will take at UVic. Without question. In this course you will combine brute mathematics with abstract 3- and 4-dimensional motion/shape concepts. And if you have a bad instructor, may the gods help you. But this is one of the most useful courses for mechanical engineers. This material applies directly to aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics & heat transfer, machine dynamics (vibration analysis) and Controls Theory. I only wish the pompous prof who taught this course had the fore-sight to explain its applications before he launched into seemingly abstract topics without any explanation. We used the "Edwards & Penney" text for this course, which was also used by UVic for MATH 100 and MATH 101. This text reads like a treatise on Pre-Industrial Lithuanian Economics written by a person with ADD. I have a copy of a an "Infinitesimal Calculus" text from 1912 that has no pictures/graphs/drawings and is much more clear than the ridiculous "Edwards & Penney". I wonder how much the University was paid to accept such a rotten publication...? (In 1st-year Calculus at the College we used an excellent text by "Larson, Hostetler, & Edwards", so I know for a fact that better books do exist.) If I recall, we had 5 or 6 assignments throughout the term and 2 tests. From the old copies I got from past years, the format of the assignments/tests hardly changed at all. Get ahold of me if you need some solutions, I'm sure things haven't changed much since I took the course. |
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