Engineering exam, what questions to do??

strandsman

In May my level 7 engineering maths exam takes place, I'm weak enough in maths as it stands so I'm going to focus on questions to get me over the line, we have covered partial fractions, matrices, complex numbers,diffrentiation,intergration, laplace, first order linear, second order dif, My question is, which is the best to focus on? matrices seem ok'ish (it's a start!)

bnt

When I did Engineering Maths I found Matrices OK once I was able to visualise what was going on. Solving them is essentially algorithmic, which is why computers are so good at them. (When you play a 3D game, the GPU in your computer or console is calculating billions of matrices every second.)

I didn't do so well in some of the other stuff, for a reason that I only figured out later: there's a lot of memorisation in Calculus in particular. Standard integrals and differentials? Memorise them, along with rules such as the Chain Rule. Differential equations? Memorise the different forms and the multi-stage methods for solving them. Laplace or Fourier transforms? Got to memorise them too. It got to the point where I forgot why I was doing it.