calculus applications used in business
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i'm an accountant and i've never had to use calculus...\n\nthat's more mathematics and physics i think...
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Calculus is a pure mathematical theory. It has 2 main applications 1 to enable calculation of the gradiant of a curve at any point on the curve, this gives you rate of change of x with respect to y. e.g. if y axis was metres and x axis was seconds this would give you the rate of change of distance with respect to time in m/s i.e. speed.\n\nIf you want to understand differentiation, I suggest you google differentiton from first principles.\n\nThis is one of the physical applications of differentiation.\n\nThe other application is to take a curve and calculate the area underneath it between two points on the curve. Say you have a curve where the y axis is speed in m/s and the x axis is time in seconds. Then the area under the curve would give you the distance travelled between points x=m and x=n. So if you integrate a velocity vs time formula you get distance travelled. This is an application of integration. To understand integration google "simpsons rule".\n\nThere are many more applications of this in physics relating to rate of change & intergration \n\ne.g Electical current is the rate of change of voltage with respect to resistance. dv/dr\n\ne.g. Power in an electical circuit is the integral of current (I) w.r.t to resistance dr
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my favorite subject has always been math, but honestly, when are we ever going to use calculus? i think english is pretty important. you can always improve on your vocabulary. writing and reading is good for your brain.
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I have a bit of calc links from when I took the AP exams.\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/education.php\n\nunder the section calculus. those sites were really useful.
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to get an extra credit, maybe?\n\n---\n\nseriously, I cannot figure out how you can study calculus without knowing limits: even if you only deal with numerical procedures, every iterative formula, or better, EVERY FORMULA (such as those used to find the roots of a non-linear equation, approximated integrals, derivatives and so on) needs a preventive study for convergence conditions: this involves limits!\n\nOne more step back: DERIVATIVE IS A LIMIT ! How can you apply it without knowing what it is?
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Calculus is mathematics that deal often with the idea of infinity and non-linear (non-real) equations.  If we can develop mathematics that deal with these concepts, I think it proves we can understand the universe's infinite nature.
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Partial differential equation can be solved by two methods one is by Calculus type and other is by Numerical Methods.\n\nOne of the conventional way of programming the partial functions is used by the numerical methods the the equation is simpled to simple algebric equations and this equation is consider as the base for developing program. IN programming using looping, conditions assigning etc., the algrebic equation is more easier way.
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Math is used all the time in the engineering sciences.  Many physical phenomena, including fluid flow, heat transport, and diffusion can be described by appropriate partial differential equations.  In order to solve these equations and make predictions, you need to be good at calculus.\n\nIf you limit yourself to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, you would be stuck with linear models for everything.  This means that any more complicated relationship between two variables could not be modeled continuously, and you would never be able to extrapolate with any confidence.  Thus development of new technology would be strictly trial and error (and you wouldn't even have a good trial and error system without statistics).\n\nHang in there!  Get through that math.  You don't have to like it, but you will inevitably appreciate the developments that math has enabled.
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This one is fairly clear.  Hope it helps.\n\nhttp://www.math.hmc.edu/calculus/tutorials/substitution/
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I am also preparing for the AP Calculus Exam in 2006 and I can tell you that the points that I saw emphasized most in taking practice former AP tests were solids of rotation (disc, washer, and shell), the fundamental thereom of Calculus (what integral means), U-substitution, derivative rules, Riemann sums, speed, linearization (finding the slope of the tangent line),  volume of known cross sections, concavity and inflection points, the area between two curves, differentiability and continuity, local and global extrema (critical points and end points), implicit differentiation equations, trignometric derivatives, the rule of exponential growth (like volume increasing at a rate proportional to the radius), average value of a function, optimization, and related rates.  I know that is a lot but I have taken 5 complete practice AP tests (former tests) in class since February and all of these concepts were reccuring.
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Knowing trig makes learning calculus easier.
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Try the inside cover of your Calculus book - it usually summarizes the rules for derivatives and some key integrals.
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If Calculus 3 implies that you have coursed through Calculi 2 and 1, then Differential Equations would be a meaningful course.\n\nDifferential Equations are the bread and butter of engineering, of Building anything; while Calculus 3,4, etc would enable you to find patterns, study patterns, build theories (in general, play with data). Differential Equations would enable you to construct problems and then solve them.\n\nSo, I guess it depends, as always :-), on your goals (both immediate and future).
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I'm afraid I don't have a web site for you off the top of my head, but I would offer this (probably controversial) advice:  try to learn calculus from a physicist instead of a mathematician.  Physics has many great applications for calculus (Newton invented it to do some physics, after all) and I think it is easier to learn based upon the applications.\n\nMathematicians fuss too much about subtleties right away and I think they get in the way of the basic ideas of derivatives beng rates of change and integrals as ways of simply adding things up.
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Firstly look at all the different engineering feats that men has ever engaged in - for example your desk, the home you live in, lights, cars, highways, computers, TV, Internet, commerical planes, ipod etc - everything is related to mathematics!\n\nWhile eating your meal think about this, how would a chef be able to cook that delicious dish without the use of mathematical principles of proportion.\n\nThe designer clothes that you are currently wearing, how would the designer be able to create such clothes without the help of mathematical measuring instruments.\n\nThe back engine of any business enterprise is mathematics! Without a sound mathematical business strategy, business can go bankrupt overnight!\n\nAnd the list goes on! \n\nSorry to say, but i think you had a very lousy Mathematics Teacher!
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Get a book from your library on applied math.\n\nInternate must be full of such applictions.
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give me ten points if u need further help just mail to me.\n\nhttp://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/AllBrowsers/2413/2413.asp\n\nhttp://www.calculus.org/\n\nhttp://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mikew/free_calc.pdf\n\nhttp://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/notes/calculus.html\n\nhttp://www.exambot.com/cgi/topic/list.cgi/math/difc?class=hlink