Is Calculus I as hard as they say?

Is Calculus I as hard as they say?

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Any math after trignometry is useless. All you need is algebra, geometry and trig.

Please explain. This is controversial

What, like derivatives and limits and shit? No man, that's easy. Look I can do a derivative right now. The derivative of 6x is 6. See. This shits easy

Not at all. Calc II is where it gets hard.

Calculus will really improve your algebra. It isn't hard, just a lot more stuff to learn. It's basically just a magic machine with a crank on the side, you turn the crank and it spits the answer out.

But what does it mean

This has got to be original

yeah Calc 2 is the hardest. If you have to take calc 3 it's easy as shit, it's just goofy applications of everything you learn in 2.

Just watch youtube math lectures for everything you struggle with.

Its the instantaneous rate of change. So for 6x, thats a line. How much is the y position changing with respect to x? 6. For a parabola, like x squared, the rate at which the y position is changing seems to also keep changing. Its not just going up, its going up faster and faster the larger x you get. So you can see the rate of change of a parabola can be described with a line, and just as youd expect the derivative of x squared is 2x.

It's a step up from Algebra, for example, but a lot of it builds on itself. Calc 1 is learning basics, 2 is expanding on that, so on and so forth. Granted, it can get kind of complicated in more advanced maths, but even then it mostly just builds on old concepts.

No, honestly. I'm not gonna say it's easy, but it's not really all that hard. It might be the first class you have to actually study for, though, depending how far along you are in schooling.

Cal I - easy lane
Cal II - fuckton of memorization but generally not much harder than Cal I
Linear algebra - Just fuck my shit up

>Linear algebra
oh man I love this shit but I can't do calc beyond very basic integrals and derivatives to save my life

>actively struggling with algebra II
just euthanize me

There are two flavors:
1. Can you do chain rule?
2. Can you do leaky bucket optimization problems? Do you remember that one class we spent covering linear approximation problems? How good are you at working with limits and discontinuities?

>algebra II
are you literally underage?

Oh man I forgot all that shit lmao

not quite, in college.

Think about it like this

You got a rocket, right. You're NASA let's say. It initiated launch. Okay it's going pretty fast. But how fast is it really going. That's the velocity. But it's not just staying at one velocity, right. It's accelerating, it's changing velocities. NASA says "Hey guy you gotta measure how fast that thing is changing velocity we need to know this shit pronto. We already know the velocity is 6x, 6 multiplied by whatever speed. How do we find that acceleration" and you tell them, oh shit, it's just 6 meters per second per second, or whatever. It's increasing at a rate of 6 times every second"

Lmao im high as fuck so i dont know what im talking about but you get the idea

Colleges offer that? That's high school math.

It's not that difficult. However, if you take it at a college rather than taking it in high school they will try to weed students out of the university/department with it. Same with most other math (Calc II/Calc III). If it's a larger university, they will also have it taught by someone that can barely speak English or someone who does not want to lecture. It makes it far harder than it needs be, but online tutorials/videos are at least common place now.

I found it far easier to understand math, if I found a practical application of it first. Otherwise, I couldn't be assed to learn it. It's why I inevitably hated Linear Algebra. Worked with it more my last semesters (geophysics) where everything clicked because it had a purpose.

No, brainlet.

its probably a step up with regard to rigor, you probably havent been tested too hard thus far in your education, in the grand scheme, it is low level math