Engineers usually do MATH2067 which is Vector Calc for engineers...as everyone has recommended - pick another degree. You are insufficiently prepared for engineering.
2014 Goals & Resolutions:
- Lower body fat and hopefully attain a slimmer and more muscular body.
- Meet more people by whatever means and hopefully build deep/strong relationships with them.
- Become more involved in university societies. Perhaps becoming the President of PokeSoc at USYD if...
The approach was correct. It just involves some little tricks with factorisation:
$Let $\Delta \ell $ be a small segment of the length of a curve. By Pythagoras' theorem, we have $ \\ (\Delta \ell)^2 \approx (\Delta x)^2+(\Delta y)^2\\ \begin{align*}\Delta \ell & \approx \sqrt{(\Delta...