Tell me about Calculus 2 in College

It was suggested to me during a campus tour that I take a course of Calculus 2 at some community college before entering a university like University of Pacific or University of Washington.

I'm in IB HL Math I (includes preparation for AP Calculus BC exam) and will take IB HL Math II.

However, I don't know what that will be like. So, to anyone who has taken it at any time, please tell me about Calculus 2. Tell me about the topics covered, intensity compared to High School Calculus, and how useful it was in other classes.

Depends on your major doesn't it.

You'll be seeing logarithms and the exponential a lot more. More trig function integration, different kinds of substitution. Integration by parts. You go briefly into more depth about inverse functions also. Calc II is also when you get introduced to series and sequences, summation, convergence and divergence, integrals of ratios of polynomials.. Oh, and hyperbolic trig functions, and their inverses, and how to integrate each. There are a good number of new identities you'll be familiarizing yourself with. All in all though, it's a lot of fun. Just stay on top of your homework. :)

Oh, the intensity compared to high school Calculus isn't that much different. You're still learning everything for the first time, but the material is a little more in depth. It's really a matter of staying on top of the work. A good professor helps too (thankfully I lucked out there).

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Originally Posted by Xox

Depends on your major doesn't it.

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If it does, then my major that I'm planning to take is Computer Science.

What Invader said. I mean really, there are many classes called "Calculus II" and they are all a bit different in what they cover. I took "calc 2" in cegep (which is like pre-university college in Quebec), and we went over what Invader said. In university, they had a "calc 2" as well (went to a different province, so slightly different). We covered almost everything Invader said, and we also went into multivariable calculus a whole bunch.

Either way, it's pretty easy. It's not as boring and mechanical as calc 1 was (derivatives, limits, etc.) There's a bit more problem solving. All in all pretty fun.

Alright, sweet. I think that's all I need to know, we pretty much covered much of what Invader said in this past trimester.

Thank you very much everyone.