Classes: Day 1
Physics 19
It's a small class but Yando and I can only recognize ~1/2 the people from our previous classes (Physics 14 and 16). The prof seems good, and the class looks to be a fairly standard physics class. Syllabus
Economics 21
It's a large class filled with (shudder) econ majors. The prof is an old dude who took roll, but neither of those are strikes against him. Math 3: Introduction to Calculus is a prerequisite so hopefully people wont wonder what the slope is. However, the prof demoed what we were going to learn in the class, and it's all finding extreme values with lagrange multipliers. He said in this case we want to maximize this function with this constraint, and in this case it's a different function and another constraint, and so on. Perhaps multivariable calculus would be a useful prerequisite...
History 57
This class looks quite interesting. The prof is dynamic and has done some interesting stuff. For example, apparently Dartmouth has the 3rd largest collection of old scientific instruments in North America (some 3000 pieces) and he just finished a book which examined 100 of them. However, the class also looks to be a lot of work. Yesterday he assigned Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to be done for tomorrow...
It's a small class but Yando and I can only recognize ~1/2 the people from our previous classes (Physics 14 and 16). The prof seems good, and the class looks to be a fairly standard physics class. Syllabus
Economics 21
It's a large class filled with (shudder) econ majors. The prof is an old dude who took roll, but neither of those are strikes against him. Math 3: Introduction to Calculus is a prerequisite so hopefully people wont wonder what the slope is. However, the prof demoed what we were going to learn in the class, and it's all finding extreme values with lagrange multipliers. He said in this case we want to maximize this function with this constraint, and in this case it's a different function and another constraint, and so on. Perhaps multivariable calculus would be a useful prerequisite...
History 57
This class looks quite interesting. The prof is dynamic and has done some interesting stuff. For example, apparently Dartmouth has the 3rd largest collection of old scientific instruments in North America (some 3000 pieces) and he just finished a book which examined 100 of them. However, the class also looks to be a lot of work. Yesterday he assigned Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to be done for tomorrow...
1 Comments:
Physics 19
It's a small class but Yando and I can only recognize ~1/2 the people from our previous classes (Physics 14 and 16)" Does that mean the rest are advanced 09's or retarded 07's?
Econ 21
The prof is an old dude who took roll, but neither of those are strikes against him. Look at his webpage. His expertise is in social security and pensions - the sort of stuff you were close to at AEI and which Mom is involved with. This will give you something to talk to him about. And using Lagrange multipliers is not bad (and can be motivated pictorially but not fully explained with elementary calculus).
History 57
Dartmouth has the 3rd largest collection of old scientific instruments in North America (some 3000 pieces)
Ask him who #1 and #2 are. I wouldn't be surprised if the Franklin Institute isn't one of them.
the class also looks to be a lot of work. Yesterday he assigned Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to be done for tomorrow...
Well, he is clearly expecting you to read or skim, and get the key ideas only, at this point. One thing I didn't realize when I was asked as an undergrad to read a lot of stuff quickly was that I was not being asked to do a careful reading. I didn't know about any other sorts of reading. But welcome to history. They expect you to read a lot, fast.
PS. I'm finally using a browser on my old Mac that can cope with the comments code of your blogserver. So maybe I will post more comments.
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