This week we are doing something a bit more complicated than other sections. It has to do with a lot of dimensions, and 6 nice steps that i have memorized. Simple as Step 1: Draw what you read. if it says there's a balloon going up and it gives more and more details. Draw what you see but be general. if you know the height just write ' y ' for now. Step 2 is finding your equation, like i said, be general. use X Y Z if needed. Step 3 is to find the derivative of that equation. Step 4 is to organize and write down what we know, this when when we know what the height is replace ' y ' with the actual number. Step 5 is to plug it in, use step 4 of what we know to Step 1 of the general equation to plug it in, and last step Step 6 is to just solve for the unknown. As you said there are many times in real life when you know how to do this you can kind of figure out a lot of stuff that can happen and how fast and more details then knowing general knowledge. Whether it's on TV like a car chase, in reality you're not going to take the time to do it but you can figure out when the cop might either catch up with the speeding car or simple lose it with steps that were written above. Personally I can see why this would be helpful, but my general question is.. why? I mean, do we REALLY care when something like a Car Chase would catch up or is it impossible to find out over what happens in real life every second that can change, and whether it's an equation or not i personally do not think that will help you with anything knowing the ' outside ' world, Outside of set math problems. Maybe it's better to observe and see what happens not get in there and trying to figure out the future with math equations.
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