| Shastrix.com | Shastrix Blogs | Sign In |
|
November 2005
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Recent Posts Saying goodbye to Clive Cussler |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Recent Comments |
Warning: Use of undefined constant galimg - assumed 'galimg' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /var/www/html/blogs/craptohtml.php on line 8
Warning: Use of undefined constant galimg - assumed 'galimg' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /var/www/html/blogs/craptohtml.php on line 9
Warning: Use of undefined constant youtube - assumed 'youtube' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /var/www/html/blogs/craptohtml.php on line 10
| Is It Just Physicists? | 14th November 2005, 20:34 | |
|
I know Guy has already said this, but it's not made any difference - perhaps they can't read either. Topics in Mathematical Biology is not a hard module. Yes, it can be confusing if you don't pay attention, say, if you spend the entire lecture making loud comments to the person sitting behind you, despite being sat in the front row right next to the lecturer. There are actually no official prerequisites for this module, yet I think it would be safe to assume A-Level Mathematics? It would appear not. It is the most frustrating thing possible to have some loud, obnoxious student sitting next to you, who asks the lecturer to explain a simple integration by substitution. There is absolutely no way you should be doing this course if you can't integrate - if I remember rightly that was something on the techniques tests at the beginning of the first year. Please do not expect to be spoon fed every last drop of Mathematics. If you don't understand something, think about it and ask the lecturer afterwards, when you won't be irritating the rest of the lecture who are competent. And then today, they stopped the lecturer to ask her to explain why e^sq couldn't be 0. I'm sorry, but exponentials are definitely A-Level material, if not GCSE. And then to ask why another expression was equal to zero, where she had written above it that she was substituting the values into equation (3.16), which had a great big "= 0" at the end. If you expect to be able to follow everything in the lectures please a) shut up and pay attention, b) learn basic mathematical techniques, c) be a genius, as most of the lectures in this degree require an element of work outside in order to understand. Why else would we be given exercise sheets? I'm a little concerned if these are Physics students (I can't really imagine them being anything else). If Physics lectures spoon-feed their students the lectures are going to be soooo incredibly tedious. |
|
Warning: Use of undefined constant galimg - assumed 'galimg' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /var/www/html/blogs/craptohtml.php on line 8
Warning: Use of undefined constant galimg - assumed 'galimg' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /var/www/html/blogs/craptohtml.php on line 9
Warning: Use of undefined constant youtube - assumed 'youtube' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /var/www/html/blogs/craptohtml.php on line 10
| Kate | 19th November 2005, 03:23 | |
| I totally agree. That poor lecturer, I think if i was her i would have made those people leave the lecture theatre. They obviously are not taking the module seriously! | |
Add Comment
Markup
MarkupBy clicking the submit button you are agreeing to the AUP