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VCE Stuff => VCE Monash University Enhancement Program => VCE University Enhancement Programs => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Mathematics => Topic started by: vea on February 18, 2011, 09:37:40 pm

Title: vea's MUEP Math help thread
Post by: vea on February 18, 2011, 09:37:40 pm

Hi pro mathematicians, this is just a thread for any problems I may encounter during my undertaking of MTH1040 :)

First question to start things off,

What is the significance of the Cauchy Swarz inequality? I know how to prove it but I don't know what it means...

Thanks in advanced.

Title: Re: vea's MUEP Math help thread
Post by: iffets12345 on February 18, 2011, 09:39:54 pm

lol wth I did NOT do that.

Title: Re: vea's MUEP Math help thread
Post by: vea on February 18, 2011, 09:49:01 pm

There have been a lot of changes to the MUEP Math course since last year... not as easy anymore :(

Title: Re: vea's MUEP Math help thread
Post by: VCEMan94 on February 28, 2011, 07:18:40 am

how you finding the assignment?

Title: Re: vea's MUEP Math help thread
Post by: m@tty on February 28, 2011, 08:33:04 am

Have you looked at wikipedia? That serves as a good first port of call.

As iffets said, we didn't do it last year.

Title: Re: vea's MUEP Math help thread
Post by: Mao on March 02, 2011, 04:41:19 pm

First thing that comes to mind is the triangle inequality. But essentially it can be applied to n-dimensional inner products, very useful for proofs, finding out the range and etc.

Oh, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (quantum physics) is derived from the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.