Which Caclulus is the best to take???????

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Which is the best Caclulus to take? Is it a good idea to take the first in the sequence of the "reguluar" Caclulus, or some other one like "Caclulus for Life Sciences"...a "watered down calculus." Thats what i'm hoping, thats all my major needs.
 
mozart_fan said:
Which is the best Caclulus to take? Is it a good idea to take the first in the sequence of the "reguluar" Caclulus, or some other one like "Caclulus for Life Sciences"...a "watered down calculus." Thats what i'm hoping, thats all my major needs.
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PCAT doesn't require the hardcore one.. so take the watered down calc. But if you are going to be a biochemist then the hardcore one. Caveat: Some schools won't accepted watered down calculus.
 
I had a choice between business/life science calc, regular calc or calc for engineers. I started on the watered down calc and dropped it. I ended up taking the regular one. The business one was icky. More word problems and less straight math.
 
mozart_fan said:
Which is the best Caclulus to take?
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The kind with differentiation, integration, and analytical geometry. I took Business Calc 5 years ago, but now I'm taking the one I just mentioned because only one of the schools to which I applied will accept Business Calc.
 
I'm taking the calculus for life sciences and it is accepted by all the pharm schools i plan to apply to. Whatever you are going to take just make sure the pharm schools will accept them As for me, it all depends on the professor. My friend who is taking the calculus for engineers has easier stuff than i do. We started doing second order differential equations and even my TA was like, "Why is the professor doing this?"
 
DrEaMeRcHiCk said:
We started doing second order differential equations and even my TA was like, "Why is the professor doing this?"
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If you're referring to second derivatives, I'm under the impression that it's a pretty common subject, even in Calc I.
 
I took Calc one and we did do second derivatives.....second differential equations have the same concept but u use an Integrating factor which you let I(x)= e^antiderivative of the coefficient. And second order is like a problem y' - y''-6=2, thats not a real problem but its in that type of format. Even my math book doesn't have second order differential equations. He just gave us problems on it. It's not that hard, I just keep making stupid mistakes on the midterms. It's one of those, "you know how to do it in your head, but when you actually write it down for some reason when you get the exam back you wonder what you were doing" I'm stuck on 3-D equations. I can never visual it yet I can visual superimposing of molecules...math doesn't like me... 🙁
 
DrEaMeRcHiCk said:
I took Calc one and we did do second derivatives.....second differential equations have the same concept but u use an Integrating factor which you let I(x)= e^antiderivative of the coefficient. And second order is like a problem y' - y''-6=2, thats not a real problem but its in that type of format.
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Ick, that stinks. I have 4 more class periods of Calc I, and then I am FINISHED! And it can't come fast enough, either. 👍
 
Caverject said:
And you will never use it again LOL
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I know! *sigh*...quarter is almost over for me but i still have to take Math 3c which is calculus/ probability so hopefully its not that bad...at least i won't be looking at any antiderivatives while looking at prescriptions...
 
Personally I took applied calculus but that was at the community college. And while it was way easier than the AP Calc I took in high school I still hated it. I just can't get excited about working out equations for no reason. On the other hand, I really enjoy working out IV and compounding calculations at work. I ended up with a B in the class, I could have done better but I'm a little greedy and I've been known to skip class to pick up some overtime at work.

Jeremy W. Plaster
AIM: jwplasteRx
 
bananaface said:
You should use it again, in pharmacology. Next quarter is going to stink for me, since I have blocked from my mind all memories of derivatives, intergrals, and haggis being thrown out of airplanes.
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Pharmacology has calculus?...just when i'd thought I'd be free from it after this year. Time to make a little shelf for all my calculus notes...
 
DrEaMeRcHiCk said:
I took Calc one and we did do second derivatives.....second differential equations have the same concept but u use an Integrating factor which you let I(x)= e^antiderivative of the coefficient. And second order is like a problem y' - y''-6=2, thats not a real problem but its in that type of format. Even my math book doesn't have second order differential equations. He just gave us problems on it.
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Those were in my calculus text book. I loved them. It was fun, like doing puzzles.
 
DrEaMeRcHiCk said:
Pharmacology has calculus?...just when i'd thought I'd be free from it after this year. Time to make a little shelf for all my calculus notes...
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It must depend on the school. I don't have calculus in pharmacology. The only calculus I get is in my pharmacokinetics class and it is really basic. There's nothing to worry about.
 
We had calculus in our Therapeutic Drug Management (kinetics) courses...

our instructor would go through and show you how all of the equations were derived... I took the engineering calc and i had no clue what was going on. the majority of the class just had a blank stare at that point and several people started freaking out about it.

However.... if you were smart you would not pay a bit of attention the first day we went over a new topic (usually one a week with 2 lectures so lecture 1 every week) and came to class on the second day you were fine b/c that day he would just straight out tell you ok... now this is the equation we use

like i said... lots of people freaked and tried to learn all of the calc with it
but i ignored it and was much better off.
 
Some schools don't accept Calculus for life science. I know Western doesn't for sure. I wonder why is that? It's still calculus and it's geared towards science. 😕
 
WildOrchids27 said:
Some schools don't accept Calculus for life science. I know Western doesn't for sure. I wonder why is that? It's still calculus and it's geared towards science. 😕
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The science it is geared towards is stuff like bacterial growth. We really don't do much with that in pharmacy school. Regular calculus has more application towards pharmacy.
 
You can't go wrong with taking the non 'watered-down' version, it could only help you; Now mind you I don't have such a dis-taste for math as some people here, I'd do math over pretty much any subject, especially biology that involves plants. Now that's terrible.
 
I know someone who attended a community college for pharmacy pre-req and she was given the choice of choosing her calc class; Calc and Analytic Geom or Calc for Health Science majors. She asked her advisor at the comm college and he told her that pharmacy schools would accept Calc for Health Science majors....turns out he was wrong and she wasted a whole semester in that class and had to take calc and analytic geom.
lesson of the story...take Calculus and Analytic Geometry!

Requiem said:
You can't go wrong with taking the non 'watered-down' version, it could only help you; Now mind you I don't have such a dis-taste for math as some people here, I'd do math over pretty much any subject, especially biology that involves plants. Now that's terrible.
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Boy I had screwed up. I took 5 qrt. Calc back at UI @ Chicago 15 yrs. ago. (got a D). I am currently taking Calc I (credit by examination) from Ohio University (4 qrt. hrs.) Although it will be accepted it isn't enough credit sem hrs. (2.67). I went to a UIC workshop and asked a admissions counselor about the acceptance of my Ohio U credit. She said she would take into consideration other math i had taken. So the moral of the story is to get the course you want to be approved by the school. Oh and by the way, I need to get a B+ in order to raise my Calc credit to average a C. I may have to take it again. 👎
 
If I took Calculus in high school, will I have to take it again? I took it as a sophomore, and also took diff. eq. and Calc. III.
 
alittler said:
If I took Calculus in high school, will I have to take it again? I took it as a sophomore, and also took diff. eq. and Calc. III.
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I'm pretty sure that you have to take it again. Check with the schools that you are applying to first.
 
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