At first, this calculus project was really difficult. I now have a new respect for those AP people who write all of our stupid free response questions! IN the beginning, it was really difficult to think of a topic to write about. I tried to think of the things that I do every day that involve calculus. Believe it or not, I found something. Even though the data is more than likely incorrect, this problem gave me a new understanding of integrals. I am ashamed to say that until about one week before the AP exam, i didn’t know that calculators could do all of the hard work for me. What a discovery that was! It made me excited and bitter, but it worked out to my advantage. On the second problem that I made, the area of R, I had originally planned to use the volume of semi-circles. The answer to this didn’t make much sense because the volume of R was smaller than the area of R. I thought that since other people would be doing my problem, i better make it more believable. This project taught me a lot because it really stressed to me how hard it really is to make a multi-part calculus problem. I also learned how to use a blog (which was the downfall of my English class last year)!
