About RADIANS and DEGREES
"Remember: When plotting points on a polar coordinate system, make sure your calculator is in RADIANS, NOT in DEGREES. Otherwise your graph ends up looking like shit."
The perfect YM stat to let the whole world know just how stupid you can be...
I was walking home this afternoon when it dawned on me. No wonder I couldn't get a good cardiod symmetric with the pi/2 axis (Dammit... Symbols font does not work here... can't get the pi symbol right...:P). Anyway... Yeah... I knew it was supposed to be a cardiod since a/b = 1, but no... My graph had to go and look like a freaking almond.
And the supposed circle (Yeah, it was about intersecting graphs in a polar plane) looked nothing like a circle. Hell, I even thought for a moment that maybe it was supposed to be a spiral instead of a circle. Damn.
Oh well, can't do anything about it anymore. At least I know that I passed Math18b. Our prof told me this morning that I needed at least a 20 in the finals in order to get a grade of D. And I was able to solve one of the two proving by math induction problems which were worth 20 pts each, and I think I got the answers right to the first three numbers whose points add up to I think either 50 or 55. So yeah... I passed Math!!! Woohoo!!!
Still... that stupid Degree/Radians thingy got me pissed at myself. Oh well...
The perfect YM stat to let the whole world know just how stupid you can be...
I was walking home this afternoon when it dawned on me. No wonder I couldn't get a good cardiod symmetric with the pi/2 axis (Dammit... Symbols font does not work here... can't get the pi symbol right...:P). Anyway... Yeah... I knew it was supposed to be a cardiod since a/b = 1, but no... My graph had to go and look like a freaking almond.
And the supposed circle (Yeah, it was about intersecting graphs in a polar plane) looked nothing like a circle. Hell, I even thought for a moment that maybe it was supposed to be a spiral instead of a circle. Damn.
Oh well, can't do anything about it anymore. At least I know that I passed Math18b. Our prof told me this morning that I needed at least a 20 in the finals in order to get a grade of D. And I was able to solve one of the two proving by math induction problems which were worth 20 pts each, and I think I got the answers right to the first three numbers whose points add up to I think either 50 or 55. So yeah... I passed Math!!! Woohoo!!!
Still... that stupid Degree/Radians thingy got me pissed at myself. Oh well...
posted by berries 'n cream @ 6:03 PM
4 Comments:
At 5:46 AM,
Anonymous said…
k lang yan... cylenol... you passed anyways. :D be happy :D
waaaaaaaaaaah! miss na kita talaga!!! umepal nanaman ang pagkahomesick ko!!! argh! i hate it... pffft.
math is love :D
*poket gives cydol a big shiny golden star sticker *
good job! *thumbs up*
hihihi
At 5:58 PM,
berries 'n cream said…
Mwihihihi! Golden star!!! *eyes shine while staring at the star... oh, the star...*
Hehehe. Oo nga... Dapat magpasalamat ako na pumasa ako...
Eh Physics naman ang problema ko ngayon!!! Waaaah! Oh well...:P
At 6:29 PM,
Anonymous said…
You just have to be careful in plotting... Actually, you should sketch the graph furst before plotting. It's called getting the whole picture before going into the details.
At 9:20 AM,
berries 'n cream said…
Hahaha... I know.:P I knew how the graph was supposed to look like, actually. But then when I started plotting the points I couldn't get them right. And stupid little panicky me neglected to think that it may be because my calculator was not in the right mode. Oh well...:P
Post a Comment
<< Home