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Title: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: Becky2012 on March 08, 2012, 09:36:18 pm
aka, what topics/chapters have your schools completed so far?  :)
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: InsaneMcFries on March 08, 2012, 10:54:00 pm
We have finished Algebra, Vectors, Trigonometry and Complex Numbers and are about to start Calculus.
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: TommyLie on March 09, 2012, 04:41:08 pm
We have finished Complex Numbers, Vectors (up to Vectors as a function of time using paremetric equations etc, but not vector calculus), and just today started Circular Functions.
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: Special At Specialist on March 09, 2012, 05:06:38 pm
We are working in the order of the essentials textbook.
We have done algebra, vectors, circular functions and complex numbers. We also finished our first SAC today based on those chapters.
Next week we're about to start differentiation techniques, even though we haven't done it in methods yet.
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: abd123 on March 09, 2012, 05:11:04 pm
Finished Complex Numbers, regions in argand plane and reciprocal graph/parametric equations.

Going to have a topic test on reciprocal graph/parametric equations.

My schools doing circular functions at the moment and we are up to sketching sec, cot and cosec graphs AKA the inverse functions.

Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: pi on March 09, 2012, 05:12:12 pm
Finished the course last year, keep up guys  ::)
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: Reckoner on March 09, 2012, 07:11:56 pm
We're working through Heinemann textbook. Finished Vectors and complex numbers (had SAC today) and we started circular functions a week ago. 
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: Unknown_one on March 09, 2012, 08:11:05 pm
Finished Vcetors+ complex numbers
But anyways, I finished the book. xP
So it doenst really matter
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: foreverconfused on March 09, 2012, 11:30:46 pm
Our school finished complex number a week ago. As of now we've been going through coordinate geometry + parametric equations
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: Special At Specialist on March 10, 2012, 11:49:29 am
It's weird that a lot of people are doing parametric equations...
In my school, we did parametric equations as just one small topic under the category of "algebra", so we only really touched on it. We didn't go into detail.
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: abd123 on March 10, 2012, 02:48:44 pm
Quote from: Special At Specialist on March 10, 2012, 11:49:29 am
It's weird that a lot of people are doing parametric equations...
In my school, we did parametric equations as just one small topic under the category of "algebra", so we only really touched on it. We didn't go into detail.
Some schools do the same thing and some other schools don't.

Yeah, my school doesn't go much detail into parametric functions too its because my school uses maths quest. However, parametric functions would go a bit more detail in kinematics and vector functions/vector calculus :).
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: Somye on March 11, 2012, 05:16:39 pm
Using maths quest, so we've done co-ordinate geometry and trig... starting complex numbers now! :)
Title: Re: Where is everyone up to?
Post by: Becky2012 on March 13, 2012, 10:47:55 pm
We're using heinemann, and we've done complex numbers, vectors, circular functions, and are doing antidifferentiation at the moment :)
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Post by: Hutchoo on March 13, 2012, 11:28:13 pm
Finished 1 - 4 Essentials.
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Post by: #1procrastinator on March 14, 2012, 06:03:15 pm
First four exercises for complex numbers in the Essential book...suprecram this weekend

School's done complex numbers, vectors and circular functions

EDIT: do you guys do all the questions or just a few computational ones and then the more challenging looking ones?