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Welcome to my ever-evolving blog. It started out as a blog on Beachbody workouts and products, mainly when I was a Beachbody coach. I no longer coach, not because I don't believe in Beachbody's programs (I subscribe to Beachbody on Demand and use their workouts every day), I am just not a salesperson and hated that aspect of it. I am more than willing to answer questions about my experiences with their products and the various workouts, and I feel freer to do so without the appearance of giving a biased review of something.

I have also started adding reviews for various things I have purchased like movies, books, CDs, and other products. This was brought about by a fight with Amazon in which all of my reviews were removed over a completely bullshit allegation that I posted a review that violated their terms of service. After going back and forth with the morons in the community-reviews department (even after they admitted that my posts did not violate their guidelines) they restored my account (which took them six months to do), but I have been posting my reviews on my blog to have them preserved in case something like that happens again. And here, I will post uncensored reviews so I will swear from time to time and post reviews that may be longer than Amazon's character limit. Everything I post here on any topic or product is my personal opinion, and I take no compensation for any product reviews I post. I am a member of Amazon's vine program and because I get those products for free, I keep those reviews on Amazon only, but everything I have purchased with my own money, whether from Amazon or some other store/website/outlet, I will post here.  

I also plan to do some longer blog posts on various topics, such as how to learn physics, how to get through calculus, and longer reviews of workout programs as I do them. Basically, whatever strikes me as interesting at the time.  As you can see if you navigate around the blog, I had many years in between postings. During that time I was going back to school to get an engineering degree, and learning material that I avoided my first time through college was a different experience and one that gave me a lot of insight into how to do well in those classes, which I will try to impart here for those who are looking to get a science or engineering degree. 

Thursday, April 14, 2022

DVD/Study Aid Review: The Calculus 3 Tutor: Volume 2 - 11 Hour Course

 



This is the second volume of Jason's Calculus 3 tutor, and it basically covers the hard types of integrals you will be exposed to in class, triple integrals, line integrals, flux integrals, and the theorems that make them a bit easier like Green's Theorem and Stokes Theorem. This is definitely the hardest material in multivariable calculus, and if you are going into electrical engineering, a lot of this stuff will rear its ugly head again in a class called Electric and Magnetic Fields.

Jason breaks down all the topics in enough detail to understand the material and then does examples. He does at least a couple of examples per topic and goes step-by-step through the problems. It is a style of teaching the material that really works for me, and why, even though there are free sources out there, I don't mind paying for his material. But, you really do have to know what is conducive to your style of learning, especially since you cannot ask questions of, or otherwise interact with, a recorded video. But, if you are a visual learner and you can sit through a simulated college lecture with a guy in front of a whiteboard working on math problems, then this is a good option, especially if your teacher confuses you and you cannot make heads or tails of the book.

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