He probably doesn't use those trig identities each day anyway. It's basic stuff, you'd think a math professor will be doing research that's slightly more involved than that! Heck, if your research involves lots of trig identities (somehow), you are dumb if you do it by hand, as you'd be wasting time with inevitable mistakes. If you need lots of trig identities done, you use a symbolic math package to do it for you. I'd think there's plenty of profs out there who do quite high level research and would pretty much suck at some of the undergraduate level stuff. I don't remember the trig identities, even if I could prove or derive every one of them in a couple of minutes.
That is exactly the point. If you are memorizing these identities then you are doing it wrong. It is actually much easier to learn to derive them, since they are all derived in essentially the same way. Memorizing a thousand identities just wastes your time.
Then there's the problem of profs assuming that things were covered in previous classes which weren't covered. When I got back to math, I had to very quickly memorize a huge number of math facts that I hadn't been expected to memorize, which put me at a distinct disadvantage to most of the other students whose teachers had expected them to memorize them.
This is college. If you are not prepared for a class it is *your* responsibility to fill in the gaps in your knowledge. It is *your* job to learn. It is *not* the professor's job to hold your hand as though you were an infant. The sole job of the professor is to point you to the important information in the field and gauge how much you are learning. If you can't handle that, maybe you're not cut out to go to college.
I'm not convinced he does. The vast majority of the US populace has absolutely no idea how their government works. I honestly believe most of them think that the majority party can do whatever it likes.
1) How do you read that in the fifth amendment? I just read it through in its entirety and nothing in it precludes a judge from ordering you to take a breathalyzer test.
2) You seem to be forgetting the fundamental tenet of the US legal system which is that, from the point of view of the average citizen, the judge's opinion *is* the law. A judge can issue a warrant for any reason he pleases. Sometimes you have the option of appealing a judge's decision on the grounds that it did not conform to prior case law, but that simply moves the arena into another judge's opinion. Ultimately, your rights are completely determined by what a judge says they are.
Why should it be mandatory? I don't believe it makes one whit of a difference who wins any particular election, so I choose not to vote. Why should I not have that right?
Actually, according to some friends of mine who are fire-fighters, they do look for people who have pyro-maniac tendancies when hiring fire-fighters. They don't want people who are nuts about it, but they definitely want you to like fire.
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He probably doesn't use those trig identities each day anyway. It's basic stuff, you'd think a math professor will be doing research that's slightly more involved than that! Heck, if your research involves lots of trig identities (somehow), you are dumb if you do it by hand, as you'd be wasting time with inevitable mistakes. If you need lots of trig identities done, you use a symbolic math package to do it for you. I'd think there's plenty of profs out there who do quite high level research and would pretty much suck at some of the undergraduate level stuff. I don't remember the trig identities, even if I could prove or derive every one of them in a couple of minutes.
That is exactly the point. If you are memorizing these identities then you are doing it wrong. It is actually much easier to learn to derive them, since they are all derived in essentially the same way. Memorizing a thousand identities just wastes your time.
Then there's the problem of profs assuming that things were covered in previous classes which weren't covered. When I got back to math, I had to very quickly memorize a huge number of math facts that I hadn't been expected to memorize, which put me at a distinct disadvantage to most of the other students whose teachers had expected them to memorize them.
This is college. If you are not prepared for a class it is *your* responsibility to fill in the gaps in your knowledge. It is *your* job to learn. It is *not* the professor's job to hold your hand as though you were an infant. The sole job of the professor is to point you to the important information in the field and gauge how much you are learning. If you can't handle that, maybe you're not cut out to go to college.
I'm not convinced he does. The vast majority of the US populace has absolutely no idea how their government works. I honestly believe most of them think that the majority party can do whatever it likes.
Seriously? .08% is too loose? I can barely tell I've drunk anything when my BAC is at that level.
1) How do you read that in the fifth amendment? I just read it through in its entirety and nothing in it precludes a judge from ordering you to take a breathalyzer test.
2) You seem to be forgetting the fundamental tenet of the US legal system which is that, from the point of view of the average citizen, the judge's opinion *is* the law. A judge can issue a warrant for any reason he pleases. Sometimes you have the option of appealing a judge's decision on the grounds that it did not conform to prior case law, but that simply moves the arena into another judge's opinion. Ultimately, your rights are completely determined by what a judge says they are.
That's exactly why I plan on not dying.
Why should it be mandatory? I don't believe it makes one whit of a difference who wins any particular election, so I choose not to vote. Why should I not have that right?
Ummm... The cheapest iMac is $1299 new. That is expensive, and it is one of the big reasons that I have stuck with Windows for so long.
And then they'll say, "What's TV?"
Don't they realize that children could be reading this forum! They could be permanently scarred by premature exposure to asexual reproduction.
Not true. The square root of a positive real number, a, is, by definition, the positive real number, x, such that x*x = a. IAAMM (I am a math major.)
Man, I wish I had mod points right now...
And they should all read this: Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
Your geek privileges have just been revoked. Please hand your card over at the door and don't let it hit you on the way out.
It wasn't a blanket generalization. Notice the word "almost".
Actually, according to some friends of mine who are fire-fighters, they do look for people who have pyro-maniac tendancies when hiring fire-fighters. They don't want people who are nuts about it, but they definitely want you to like fire.