Question:
Should I take Calculus III and Linear Algebra at the same time?
Coolbeans32
2014-07-22 08:42:06 UTC
I'm an engineering major, and apparently I can take either Calculus III and Linear Algebra OR Calculus III and Differential Equations this semester. What combination do you recommend? Would it be too overwhelming?
Or, should I take Linear Algebra and Differential Eqs and leave Calculus III for the next semester? I'm really just asking here about the content of these classes and if taking them simultaneously would be doable.
Five answers:
In my day Calculus II was differential equations, linear algebra and multivariate calculus -- taught in that order.
Linear algebra isn't calculus, but it make it easier to do the multivariate.
But then I took a dynamic systems class, and it jumped into differential equations, assuming you knew linear algebra.
2014-07-22 09:20:46 UTC
they are both easy so take both simultaneously, however linear algebra should technically come before calc 3.
?
2014-07-22 09:06:00 UTC
You should take Calculus 3 and Linear Algebra but not Calculus 3 with Differential Equations because Linear Algebra comes before Differential Equations. And Linear Algebra is useful to engineering field.
Can anyone answer my question?
Awms A
2014-07-22 08:55:18 UTC
You shouldn't take differential equations before linear algebra. You can do them concurrently, usually.
If I were you, I would seek advice from your university mathematics or engineering departments.
If I'm to guess though, I'd say to take either Calculus III by itself or with Linear Algebra.
A small warning: Many of the younger engineering students I've met have thought Linear Algebra was too abstract, so they downplayed its usefulness. Try not to fall into this trap and look beyond the abstraction, as Linear Algebra can be one of the most useful tools you will learn in a math class.
?
2014-07-22 08:42:52 UTC
Calculus III and Linear Algebra
ⓘ
This content was originally posted on Y! Answers, a Q&A website that shut down in 2021.
