It's very beneficial for ChE students to take the Mathematica version of Math 285 [DiffEq] due to the broader amount of material that the DiffEq&M athematica lessons cover. In the standard textbook version of diffeq, students learn how to mostly solve diffeq's that ChE's will never encounter. In the real world, engineers encounter problems much more complex than seen in the standard version of diffeq but that often crop up in their DiffEq&Mathematica homework. Additionally, the students who take DiffEq&Mathematica will have an increased understanding of the physical meaning of what they are doing. By presenting the material in a graphical form and covering things like resonance and the predator-prey model, students won't just be presented some random formula. They will see an approach to the problem
Before I came to college I loved math. It had always been my favorite class all through school. When I graduated high school I even got the math award.. When I got to [college] my love of math quickly died. . . I no longer understood math or calculus for that matter. Then I switched majors and I had to continuing taking more Math. Last semester I was also in traditional Calc II and was getting a D- before I dropped it. Someone suggested I take C&M CalcII. I figured it couldn't be any worse than last semester so I signed up for it. I'm glad I did. I wouldn't say that I love math now, but I am being to like it again. This class not only helped teach mathematics but it explained mathematics. The normal classes don't do this.
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