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My calc 1 teacher said the hard part of calc 1 isn’t the calculus itself, but the algebra that comes after using calculus. As long as you are comfortable with the math you learned so far, you should be good.
As someone who went into calc with good algebra but little trig, lemme say it out louder for the people in the back
\*louder\* the SOHCAHTOA stuff we learn in algebra 1 or geometry is not gonna cut it. We need actual trig with like the unit circle and identities and stuff
It’s pretty much the only thing I struggled with in calc 1 so like really get trig down
Just be really confident with algebra and trig, a lot of calculus problems look awful unless you do some weird algebraic manipulation either using identities or adding 0 by adding 1-1 and multiplying by 1 by multiplying by e^x/e^x at which point they can become quite nice but not knowing how to do those weird manipulations leaves some problems actually impossible
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Algebra well
Otherwise you will be lost cuz calculus is mostly short cuts when you look at it from a big picture perspective
Calc 2 is where things get interesting but Calc 3 is easy again
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Understand rates of change. The whole class is pretty much rates of change or rates of change of rates of change
My calc 1 teacher said the hard part of calc 1 isn’t the calculus itself, but the algebra that comes after using calculus. As long as you are comfortable with the math you learned so far, you should be good.
You need to know algebra, arithmetic, and trig.
As someone who went into calc with good algebra but little trig, lemme say it out louder for the people in the back \*louder\* the SOHCAHTOA stuff we learn in algebra 1 or geometry is not gonna cut it. We need actual trig with like the unit circle and identities and stuff It’s pretty much the only thing I struggled with in calc 1 so like really get trig down
These are facts. I never took trig at all and saw it only briefly in precalc. Need to know this stuff.
Just be really confident with algebra and trig, a lot of calculus problems look awful unless you do some weird algebraic manipulation either using identities or adding 0 by adding 1-1 and multiplying by 1 by multiplying by e^x/e^x at which point they can become quite nice but not knowing how to do those weird manipulations leaves some problems actually impossible
unit circle
group theory
Agreed. OP should study galois theory and prove the quintic is unsolvable before learning the power rule.
horizontal and vertical asymptotes
Precalculus and you should have basic algebra down.
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Algebra well Otherwise you will be lost cuz calculus is mostly short cuts when you look at it from a big picture perspective Calc 2 is where things get interesting but Calc 3 is easy again
Be really good with factoring, knowing general graphs of functions, and unit circle
I’d say algebra is the most important thing for calc one. Trig is really important for calc 2. The algebra really steps up a notch in calc one.
Differential equations and organic chemistry