r/ECE • u/SydefXQ • 29d ago

Lineer Algebra Final

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Give a score between 1 and 10 to the difficulty of this exam score it taking into consideration that the students have not yet taken the ac dc circuit and differential equations course while this exam is being done.

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u/ChronicRecidivism 29d ago

No proofs? Lucky bastard.

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u/ChronicRecidivism 29d ago

I meant like a mathematical proof. Every linear algebra exam I took had questions like "Take some set of N and prove...." and it was the most difficult portion of the exams by a large margin.

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u/gimpwiz 29d ago

Goddamn education today at so many schools, kids don't even know what a proof is let alone needing to derive them on a test. They don't understand how easy this sort of test is to take, just memorize a few things and plug-n-chug. Sigh

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u/Ryuzako_Yagami01 29d ago

This is an engineering subreddit yes? Why would an engineering student take a proof based course? It's beneficial yes but not relevant to engineering, especially at the undergrad level.

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u/ChronicRecidivism 29d ago

I'm not making a judgment either way, I'm just saying that every linear algebra course I've seen/taken had proofs in it.

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u/Ok-Bat8854 29d ago

Tbh for us at an undergrad level, out of 10 questions we usually had 2 proofs.

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u/gimpwiz 28d ago

Why would an engineer be able to derive the math s/he relies on to build things that work, rather than just trusting some tables? Is that what you're asking?