Similar but slightly different for me. Assuming you'd had single variable calculus in high school, it went:
First semester: multivariate calculus for math; Newtonian mechanics for physics Second semester: vector calculus for math; waves, optics, and thermo for physics Third semester: linear algebra for math; electromagnetics for physics
First semester mechanics expected you to know at least vector calc, so what happened was that the first-semester mechanics class basically taught a crash course in linear algebra in the middle so that they could do any of it went ahead and did it anyway, telling you "you should already know this," notwithstanding that the prereq for course enrollment in the official catalog was "concurrent enrollment in multivariate calc." *banging head*
Whether we were expected to know Taylor series but never taught them, covered them but I forgot, or I just didn't stick around long enough to encounter them, I have no idea. (Suspect the third, though.)
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Date: 2022-07-17 11:55 am (UTC)First semester: multivariate calculus for math; Newtonian mechanics for physics
Second semester: vector calculus for math; waves, optics, and thermo for physics
Third semester: linear algebra for math; electromagnetics for physics
First semester mechanics expected you to know at least vector calc, so what happened was that the first-semester mechanics class
basically taught a crash course in linear algebra in the middle so that they could do any of itwent ahead and did it anyway, telling you "you should already know this," notwithstanding that the prereq for course enrollment in the official catalog was "concurrent enrollment in multivariate calc." *banging head*Whether we were expected to know Taylor series but never taught them, covered them but I forgot, or I just didn't stick around long enough to encounter them, I have no idea. (Suspect the third, though.)