Texas Instruments TI-36X Pro Engineering/Scientific Calculator | 9.7 Inch | Black.

Very good product

I bought this calculator for the FE exam. Until then I used a TI-83 graphing calculator, and since then I have only used this TI-36x. Thats how great it is. The muti-line display is great. You can also scroll through previous calculations, even after pressing clear. Its great for multi-step calculations. The operations on this calculator are really intuitive. If youre calculating integrals, it gives you an integral symbol to plug your limits and equation into. Same with square roots, fractions, exponents, everything. It will also do things like statistics models, where it asks for the inputs one at a time. It solves matrices, converts units, takes cross products, solves systems of equations, has useful constants pre-loaded, does combinations and permutations... I just wish I had bought this calculator sooner. It just takes a few minutes of playing around to find all these features. I just have two minor complaints: 1) the fraction/decimal toggle button is right beneath the addition button, where Im used to the enter button being. When I was first using the calculator I would often push that button by mistake at the end of the calculation. It doesnt actually DO anything in that case, so I would just have to delete the symbol and press enter. Now that Im used to the calculator, I hardly ever make this mistake. 2) If the input or series of calculations is longer than the width of the screen, the calculator will just continue pushing the line to the right, rather than continuing on the next line. It just makes it so that I cant see my whole input on the screen and I have to scroll back through to review. GREAT calculator for science or engineering majors. If youre buying it for the FE or PE, make sure you give yourself a few weeks to play around with it and get used to all the features and where to find them. Skim the users manual too, so youre aware of all the awesome things this beauty can do.

Ive owned everything from a free calculator that doubles as a pencil case to the TI-NSpire CX CAS with a color display. Aside from graphing, of course, this 36X does EVERYTHING better than any other calculator Ive used. The interface is incredible (fraction bars, scroll and multiple line functionality), it handles complex numbers like a champ, basic equation solving, even derivatives and integrals? So small but SO powerful. Just buy one.

This calculator was an upgrade from my son’s middle school one (TI-30xiis). I was looking for something that would carry him into advanced math and even college maths, without being a full-functioning expensive graphing calculator. So far, straight out of the package, I can already see that it was a good choice to upgrade. It has more functions, a user guide cheat sheet in the lid, rubberized grips both on the calculator and lid, a larger display screen, and more. The function buttons are NOT metallic as shown and mentioned in older reviews. See pics.

Broke after a short term of use

I love this calculator!!! Ive had it since Sept/2011. Before this calculator I had the TI-89 and loved how it could do anything I could want it to do. With knowing that I would be unable to use this calculator on the FE, I decided to buy one that they would allow so I would be use to it before the exam. I originally took the advice of a friend and went with a the Casio 115es. Being that I have had Ti products my whole life this was a huge learning curve. The calculator was nice but was not that user friendly! (almost felt like I needed a minor in programming to work it!) I was told that it would solve for variables but never could actually learn how to get it to do it. One day a friend in class showed me his Ti-36x pro and I was amazed at how easy it was to use! It did alot more then the Casio and was almost like having my Ti-89 back!! To be honest its easier then the 89 to operate and still solves for variables (along with alot of the other same functions). I have showed mine to my fellow classmates and they also fell in love with it. They always end up having me order them one. So far I have ordered 15 of these calculators and have not had one complaint out of any of them. I have tried almost all calculators allowed on the FE and this one is far ahead of the pack!!! Some Pros: The Biggest Pro is: Its pretty user friendly after you get sometime on it The ability to scroll through old computations See math expressions, symbols and stacked fractions exactly the way they appear in textbooks. Has nine physical constants programmed into it (like:Gravity, Speed of Light, Avogadros number, Ideal Gas Constant..) Has 18 Metric/English conversions Does integration and derivatives Gives you answers in decimals by default (unlike the Casio) but will convert to fractions If you turn it off and back on it still has your old calculations! (the Casio erases when it turns off!) If you are a TI user, you can easily adapt to this calculator. For the price you cant beat it!! I noticed one person gave it 2 stars. Let me just say, out of the 15 Ive ordered for people, I have yet to have one complaint!!! Cons NONE!!! If you are not allow to use a graphing calculator in your classes or you will be taking the FE one day, I recommend this calculator. It blows any other Scientific Calculator out the water!!!

Have use it for math test, it have most of the things that you need for the exam, lucky this time for a good test score.

The calculator is very good overall. My only complaints are with things such as decimal to degrees/mins/seconds and vica versa. You have to navigate a bunch of menus to this basic conversion. It is actually faster to simple divide by 60 then 3600 to find the mins and seconds then to navigate the menus. The calculator suffers from not having a simply button to convert back and forth. Like a dec -> DMS button would be a huge welcome. Especially since this calculator is primarily used on the EIT/PE and LSIT/PLS exams.

As a college student who does high-level math, I can tell you that this is the only calculator you need. Why pay 120$ for a graphing calculator when there are countless websites that will do the exact same this for free (i.e. desmos.com) with half the fuss associated with operating a TI-Inspire? This calculator is FAST and EASY TO USE. It is extremely well-designed so that the buttons you need for squaring and taking square roots are really well-placed and the history of previous calculations is very easy to access (similar to a TI-inspire), making using this calculator a BREEZE. Its solar-powered and super durable--Ive had it for 5 years and its never failed me. I dont think Ive ever gotten more worth out of anything than I have this calculator; it had made math easier and more fluid, which is an outstanding feat! Ive never written an amazon review before but I was using this calculator for some homework just now and was overcome by a wave of gratitude about how nice this calculator is and felt compelled to write a review. Please dont buy a TI-inspire.

This calculator has complex number support (rectangular and polar form) and is usually sufficient for DC and AC circuit analysis. It has real matrix support but not complex matrix support so it can be used to solve systems of equations in mesh and nodal analysis in DC circuits but not AC circuits. In my experience most faculty dont require a calculator that can solve complex matrices in AC circuits.