First Semester Subjects?

[dejan91]

Calculus 2 seems amazing =D

You know, I don't love maths as much as you, but I can honestly say I am looking forward to calculus 2! (lol rhyme) Had a look at the description in the handbook, and seems quite the interesting subject.

[QuantumJG]

Ahh that's so scary. Thanks for telling me that, I'll be sure to look at Conics a fair bit.

How come - is it really exciting?

Conics isn't that hard at all, I just had a shocking lecturer (Sanming Zhou).

Mainly you are using maths that allows you to graph say an ellipse that is rotated and shifted to the right and upwards for an example.

For calc 2 try and have Craig Hodgson for your lecturer as he is really good (He is a lecturer for group theory and linear algebra - yay!). Also his qualifications are:

- Bachelor of Science (Honours) (UoM)
- Master of Science (UoM)
- Master of Arts (Princeton)
- PhD (Princeton)

For linear algebra try and get either:

- Deborah King (She sort of acts more like a high school teacher)
- Lawrence Reeves (He knows his stuff but I always thought he acted like an egotist - think of like an older version of Humph on VN)

I'm excited about uni because 75% of this year is maths and physics and there is a lot of cool stuff to learn.

Also to anyone who did real analysis, what is Arun Ram like as a lecturer? From his lecture on 'what is a mathematician?', he sounds like a very dedicated guy.

Also who do you guys believe is the best lecturer for Vector Calculus?

[squance]

Really?? I hope so!! Do you reckon I'll like Calculus 1?

Hmmm...not sure about Calculus 1. Calculus one is like a condensed version of VCE Specialist Maths.
It was an awful subject for me .

Just look forward to Calculus 2

[Kopite]

Conics isn't that hard at all, I just had a shocking lecturer (Sanming Zhou).

lol....total idiot.

[Pappa-Bohr]

qauntum everyone only had one lecture on conics...it's up to you to self learn the material and do harder examples..I did and I found the question on the exam one to be relatively easy..
and yea I had Prof Reeves for lectures..he's nice but the 'egotist' description is right on lol

[nicholasysc]

Do we get info about who takes which lecture or do we have to find out in the actual lecture?
cos I dont want to get a not so good lecturer

[QuantumJG]

Conics isn't that hard at all, I just had a shocking lecturer (Sanming Zhou).

lol....total idiot.

Edit: I deserved that. I misinterpreted the answer! :S

qauntum everyone only had one lecture on conics...it's up to you to self learn the material and do harder examples..I did and I found the question on the exam one to be relatively easy..
and yea I had Prof Reeves for lectures..he's nice but the 'egotist' description is right on lol

Yep the question was easy and in the end it was me not preparing properly for the exam that caused this mark.

[Kopite]

Conics isn't that hard at all, I just had a shocking lecturer (Sanming Zhou).

lol....total idiot.

I deserved that.

qauntum everyone only had one lecture on conics...it's up to you to self learn the material and do harder examples..I did and I found the question on the exam one to be relatively easy..
and yea I had Prof Reeves for lectures..he's nice but the 'egotist' description is right on lol

Yep the question was easy and in the end it was me not preparing properly for the exam that caused this mark.

lol noo...meant that lecturer. total douche he is.

[darlok]

Intermediate Micro
Financial Math I
Business Finance
Probability

easy as pie

[QuantumJG]

Conics isn't that hard at all, I just had a shocking lecturer (Sanming Zhou).

lol....total idiot.

I deserved that.

qauntum everyone only had one lecture on conics...it's up to you to self learn the material and do harder examples..I did and I found the question on the exam one to be relatively easy..
and yea I had Prof Reeves for lectures..he's nice but the 'egotist' description is right on lol

Yep the question was easy and in the end it was me not preparing properly for the exam that caused this mark.

lol noo...meant that lecturer. total douche he is.

Sorry for misunderstanding what you said. Well Sanming was pretty much that.

[d0minicz]

121110     Famine in the Modern World - Breadth

610150     Chemistry for Biomedicine

620168     Experimental Design and Data Analysis

650121     Biomolecules and Cells

[username]

121110     Famine in the Modern World - Breadth

I did Famine!! Greattt subject and really easy to get a good grade, but the exam is ridiculously vague.

[d0minicz]

in what ways is it vague ?

[username]

in what ways is it vague ?

Some of the exam questions were like 'What was [this person's] findings in [this] report'. That would be the whole question. Bear in mind that the course reader is massive and there is literally no way anyone could memorize all the names off by heart. Certain statistics also had to be memorized like 'number of people malnourished in Ethiopia in 2005'.

And dates. Lots and lots of dates when famines / droughts / natural disasters occured.

It was all multiple choice though.

[dejan91]

Can we order our timetable (once it's out) to our liking? As in, can we choose when our lectures and tutes are and which days we are free on, etc?