Techniques of Integration

[Blue Sky]

Aa.. yes.. having a good prof. is... very crucial.... it is too bad your intro physics prof is not particularly nice... some people seem to explain the most mundane concepts in a very convoluted fashion.. just to confuse you.. And apparently, we physicists like to make up mysterious sounding words for concepts and phenomenon which are... well... very simple... But, I guess that is how we try to make it sound hard!!

And... as for problem solving... um.. it is... true that is can be rather cumbersome... (specially if it is a homework problem..) Yet... mechanics only needs Newtons laws (or the Lagrangian or Hamiltonian if you prefer) and... the entire EM consists of only 4 equations.. Maxwell's Equations... But of course... in practice things are much more ugly...

Hmm... bedtime it is... well... good night everybody!

 

[Max Power]

Good talking to you Blue Sky... take it easy

 

[Enrico]

OK so this thread stayed alive a lot longer than I expected it to...

Where's the love for partial fractions and trigonometric subsitution?

 

[Max Power]

Trig substitution sucks

Maybe it's just the booze talking, but I think simple u sub is the coolest

 

[nevertoobig]

OK so this thread stayed alive a lot longer than I expected it to...

Where's the love for partial fractions and trigonometric subsitution?

I'd say partial fractions, because its about the only method of integration I can do at the moment. I've just started revising integration and thats as far as I've got.