Which is the hardest part of Calculus 2

I have heard many people say Calculus 2 is very difficult. What makes this class so hard? Is it the integration techniques? What about the Taylor and Maclaurin Series?

integration is the hard part. A year after you take calc 2, the material itself will really strike you as very easy most likely, but not when you are actually going through it in class. At that time of your academic life, you are not used to really having to think much at all, calc 2 is one of the first classes that forces you to be resourceful. You cannot just do "example problems" and be good at it anymore in this class, you have to practice practice practice until you get better at it and until your eye is sharpened to the point where you understand how to integrate through a variety of means. It is the first class where people have to start studying more than they are used to. It is very elementary material, but the experience itself is the harder part of it all. Calc 2 is hard for most people when they go through it (myself included).

The series part is where you get a "break," because it is mindless by comparison. You do not even have to understand anything about it to do the problems. For Taylor series (note, a Maclaurin series is a special case of a Taylor series), one can easily derive the formula for coefficients of the power series in their head (the derivation is that short), but you can also just memorize the formula and use it. Calc 2 also has infinite series, which is more involved than Taylor series, but it is nothing bad. The tough part is the integration.

Series are easy it's just memorizing. I had trouble with polar coordinates but that's also pretty easy. Problem with calc 2 is that it's a lot of stuff that has to be remembered that may not seem like they relate to each other. Good thing is, everything is pretty easy. I just finished Calc 2 and in retrospect it's not hard on a analytic level, it's just using steps to get an answer type of deal.

Integration can also be tricky. But if you were good at derivatives it should be easy to understand.

Calc 2 was my favorite of all 4 semesters of Calculus because it was very visual and the Calculus of Trigonometry. It had been a while since I had Trig when I took Calc 2 so remembering all the Trig identities off the top of my head is what I found most difficult. All the differentiation and integration gets harder after this class with partial derivatives in Calc 3. I also love music and harmonics, so I found the Series portion of Calc 2 very straight forward.

Enjoy-Garth

I think integration is harder than differentation

No,
actually calculus 2 or 3 is very easy