3rd Eng Computation

pimpy_c

Ok 3rd year engineers! This friday we all have an exam together for a change but I'm totally screwed! Bestow upon me any words of wisdom that will carry me through this exam and that all who read this thread will also be aided in their study!

Ok, lets cut the crap! Any tips on what is or isn't coming up? I hear lots of talk about cubic splines but half the people say they're super important while the other half say they're defo not coming up!!! I'm so confused!

Red Alert

eng computation if it's that idiot peter duffy (or whatever first name he's using now, has several, same guy) is best left to the day before the exam. the paper never changes. a friend of mine got 92% or thereabouts from one day's studying. just learn off the method, and the numbers are often the same in the different papers.

p.s. what eng u doing?

blondie83

Yeah you only need to study a day or too before at most. And don't bother learning any more questions than you need to (7 isn't it?) cos they never really change. I remember we had the Duffy guy teaching us, and he used to get so nervous! Then he'd accidently power off his laptop every now and again

pimpy_c

Yeah it's still Peter Duffy teaching it! Although, it does say Gavin Duffy on his notes! Well gang thanks for the heads up! Victory drinks under the slide!

pimpy_c

Red Alert wrote:

p.s. what eng u doing?

I'm one of those bad ass cool mothafookas from chem eng! ...well, something like that anyhow!

Red Alert

he and his brother obviously job share

Cool Mo D

Well I say learn of the proofs, theres about 6, and they're the same every year. Thats nearly half the exam, and you can swing the rest of it.

Never mind the old cubic splines: they're too long and complimicated, and you can skip too questions. I also recommend leaving out partial differential equations for question 9.

And he ses that gaussian quadrature is defo comin up: its not too hard, so study that.

muffin_man

A day on and it was grand! So predictable! Peter Duffy must have the imagination of a nail!

Red Alert

legend. i'd much prefer to be resitting a duffy exam than doing control - eek!

blondie83

Red Alert wrote:

legend. i'd much prefer to be resitting a duffy exam than doing control - eek!

Ah control - that was my lowest mark last year, although "Mark-the-man" is a self confessed asshole when it comes to marking When do they start?