August 31

Friday August 30, 2007 6:20 am Lethbridge

It is +14 C with a high forecast of +30 C. Sunrise 6:44 Sunset 20:19 Hours of daylight: 13:35

A. Morning Musings

6:20 am

Much of the day will be spent working on the yard. The lawns need cutting and the weeds in the back lane need to be cut down. But I have been maintaining a nice pattern of mathematics and literature which I expect to continue as well.

Immediate	Description	Time
Literature	Continue reading "The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant " by Stephen Donaldson	2 hr
Mathematics	Complete exercises p. 25 - 28 from "The Mathematics Survival Kit"	1 hr

C. Actual Learning Activities

6:40 am

Mathematics 57

August 31, 2007

Link to Calculus Learning Schedule

6:40 am

I decided to complete the remaining two sections on lines early this morning.

calculus

The last example was a bit of a shock. It required a level of calculus that I no longer have at my finger tips. But it does provide a glimpse of the type of problem that I will be able to handle, with ease, when I achieve my goal of relearning calculus.

I am also looking forward to seeing the graphs of these situations using Mathematica.

I am pleased with the progress I am making in bringing the activities in the Weiner book up to the point I was at in the Kelley book. It is going faster than I originally expected. The Weiner activities are primarily acting as a form of review, although he also inserts a few new topics (notably the Remainder and Factor Theorems as well as synthetic division).

Link to Calculus Learning Schedule

8:30 PM

I have just completed reading the first book, The Wounded Land, of the trilogy "The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant".