knox
Refugee
Reasons Chapter 13 is stupid:
- It talks about very simple ideas in very complicated ways
- Having built up on the rest of the multivariable calculus in the rest of the book, students discover that their toil and hard work was all to learn how to calculate flux
- Going against all conventions of calculus notation until this point, it considers F(x,y,z) to be a derivative off(x,y,z)
- It leaves the student wondering why he didn't just take a physics class
- The idea of path-independence is presented in a way that absolutely boggles the mind to the point of incomprehension
So yes, Chapter 13 is stupid.
- It talks about very simple ideas in very complicated ways
- Having built up on the rest of the multivariable calculus in the rest of the book, students discover that their toil and hard work was all to learn how to calculate flux
- Going against all conventions of calculus notation until this point, it considers F(x,y,z) to be a derivative off(x,y,z)
- It leaves the student wondering why he didn't just take a physics class
- The idea of path-independence is presented in a way that absolutely boggles the mind to the point of incomprehension
So yes, Chapter 13 is stupid.