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Postby Phenylethylamine on Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:41 pm

*raises eyebrows* You can do sines on a regular scientific calculator... and as a 9th grader (plus I'm taking 10th grade math... long story short, math is my thing), I forget that not everyone necessarily is familiar with trig.
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Postby Mr. Cool on Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:11 pm

Well I hardly understand it at all, so they would do well to keep it out.
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Postby Phenylethylamine on Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:50 pm

lol yeah, I'm guessing that's how most people feel about this.
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Postby chia on Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:28 pm

i'm an 8th grader doing 10th grade math, but i suck at trig. :cry:
at least if i study for this, there's the added bonus of getting better at physics :D
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Postby denmarksoccer on Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:23 pm

Snell's law is just basic trig, right?
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Postby smartkid222 on Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:28 pm

when i did the event i thought snells law was really easy. I dont' remember it now, it's been over year. You just use a scientific calculator.
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Postby Phenylethylamine on Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:34 pm

Exactly, with just a regular TI scientific, you can do any trig stuff that you need.
In competition, I always miss my graphing calculator- I love my TI-83+, at the risk of sounding like a total math nerd (but then again, if I didn't like math, I wouldn't do this event)- just because I'm so much more used to using it these days, but a scientific does have all the functions necessary.
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Postby RightorRong on Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:41 pm

Crave the Wave is the event I like the least, but I am an alternate for that event. If the top two in Crave the Wave cannot compete because of the schedule, I will have to compete. If I do have compete, I have some major studying to do.
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Postby EASTstroudsburg13 on Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:11 pm

:o :o :o

I love this event!!!

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Postby Mr. Cool on Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:49 pm

Crave the Wave rocks
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Postby smartkid222 on Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:46 pm

it was my favorite study event. one of the best events overall
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Postby EileenofSD on Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:07 pm

I'm only an eighth grader in ninth grade math, so I've got NO CLUE at all whatsoever about Snell's Law, and wikipedia doesn't help much... Can someone please help?
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Re: Crave the Wave helpppppppp

Postby Mr. Cool on Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:19 pm

Me too! But they shouldn't have it on the test. If they have any sense. So I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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Re: Crave the Wave helpppppppp

Postby Helix_Nebula_Freak on Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:50 pm

Most CTW tests I've taken have Snell's Law thoguh....

At first it's hard, but once you get the hang of it it's not so bad...
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Re: Crave the Wave helpppppppp

Postby Uranium235 on Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:08 pm

it's the only formula you have to know, and you can just put it in your binder
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