I didnt study after I got 15 years old,whats even worse,I failed to learn math past about second grade.
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I realized I must get my shit together and learn math.So I ask you,people of eevblog forum,can you give me some guidence on how to learn equations? I know math is huge and I would rather only spend time learning whats important from EE perspective,but I dont know what is so thats why I am asking you for help.I prefer learning from internet, youtube,Khan academy etc
I realized I must get my shit together and learn math.So I ask you,people of eevblog forum,can you give me some guidence on how to learn equations? I know math is huge and I would rather only spend time learning whats important from EE perspective,but I dont know what is so thats why I am asking you for help.I prefer learning from internet, youtube,Khan academy etc
I always remind myself of Brian Cox, a reasonably famous physicist. He once said that he really was terrible at maths too and only got good by doing it a lot.
Become a software developer.
There innumeracy won't be noticed and might even be regarded as a badge of honour
When a physicist says they are "really terrible at maths" it may not mean what you think it means. It may mean they feel they are not quite up there with the super-geniuses of the world, but they may still be vastly better than you or I.
The type of math that is about equations is called algebra?
Thank you xrunner! I think my problem is not so much that I cant do the calculations,I think the actual calculating part is easy,the problem that kills me is knowing what do the symbols mean.I cant calculate something when I dont even know what the symbols mean.What stops me from being to able to solve them is that instead of numbers,these equations use letters and some weird hieroglyph looking things and it looks like wall of alien/chinese text.
Thank you xrunner! I think my problem is not so much that I cant do the calculations,I think the actual calculating part is easy,the problem that kills me is knowing what do the symbols mean.I cant calculate something when I dont even know what the symbols mean.What stops me from being to able to solve them is that instead of numbers,these equations use letters and some weird hieroglyph looking things and it looks like wall of alien/chinese text.
Well I don't think we want to start a math class here but yea the symbols are just telling you to do an operation. Like () parenthesis means "do this shit in here and find the value then work on the stuff outside", ... just learn what the symbols tell you to do and it's not that bad.
It's just a bunch of rules, which if followed lead to a correct answer. That why they say artificial intelligence can do math really well because it just a bunch of rules.
Wolfram Alpha is already pretty good at doing rather complicated things. If you get it to understand your question, it tends to have the right answer.
Oh yea I haven't played with that in a while I'll have to check it out again.
Say I was just thinking, does somebody have an equation solver on the web that actually shows how the equation is solved for the student? Like if they type in any equation it shows them step-by-step how the equation is solved and not just the answer? Let's them enter any equation and it shows the steps done in order? I bet somebody has done that and it would be a good teaching tool for people like fonograph.
Oh yea I haven't played with that in a while I'll have to check it out again.
Say I was just thinking, does somebody have an equation solver on the web that actually shows how the equation is solved for the student? Like if they type in any equation it shows them step-by-step how the equation is solved and not just the answer? Let's them enter any equation and it shows the steps done in order? I bet somebody has done that and it would be a good teaching tool for people like fonograph.I think the paid app for Wolfram Alpha does or did that. They change things occasionally and I haven't used it recently, so I'm not sure it still does that. It was popular amongst students for this reason.
Try symbolab.com If you subscribe you get a more detailed explanation but you get the big picture even with the cheap seats. I subscribe!
I think symbolab is focused on Calculus.