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Question

Can you guys give me a general backround about calculus and I dont want going to wiki cause its hard to read. And someone wrote "Suck my ****" on it.

Can you guys also tell me why calculus is used for and why must we have calculus. And can you tell me a general rule for calculus, formulas, rules. ty

Answer 1

You can use calculus to find the maximum of an equation.. like if the amount of medicine is going to fluctuate in your body it is important to know what the max will be, calculus can give you that.

Calculus created the formulas you use to find the area or volume of shapes. Sure, finding the area of a square is simple, but try finding the area of a three dimensional combination of an ellipse and a cylinder.

Newton (and lebowitz(sp?)) invented calculus so he could do physics. Acceleration -> speed -> position

Calculus is used to create all kinds of formulas. If we didn't have those formulas, life would suck.

Answer 2

If you have spent any time in a math class talking about slope, you've got a start for understanding calculus. While an equation like y=6x + 2 is a standard form for showing the slope of a line, it is linear. It doesn't have any exponents except the exponent of 1 which is understood. As soon as you have an exponent that is not 1 or 0, you start getting into non-linear equations. They are curves. Look at a quadratic equation like 5x^2 + 3x + 2. You will always find that the quadratic equation is a parabola when you sketch it on a Cartesian plane (plot the points on a graph). But what is its slope? It's not going to be the slope like a linear equation has a slope - which is just a regular predictable incline/steepness to the line, which is measured and expressed in a linear equation. No - it's going to have a series of slopes that are at every tiny teeny turn of its rotten little body - and its the job of the calculus student to try to quantify and express all those tiny little teeny slopes. At first it seems like a hairy mess but those slopes have uses - depending on the equations you are looking at, which mathematically describe situations, they give you information you need to know for economics, physics and other scientific applications. They describe and quantify change. Which is what slope does in a linear equation too. But a linear equation just sits there. Calculus attacks those graph curves that wiggle all over the place and break and then resume and go wandering off God knows where. When they say Calculus is all about measuring change, they mean it.

Answer 3

1. You can edit wikipedia yourself to take out something offensive or totally off topic.

2. There are a lot of formulas. No way to help you with those here.

3. Leibniz and Newton invented calculus pretty independently.

4. There are two main concepts in calculus -- differentiation and integration. Differentiation takes the rate of change of something. For example, Newton used it to describe velocity, which is the rate of change of position, and also acceleration, which is the rate of change of velocity. Integration is the inverse operation of that, namely the cumulative amount something over time.

5. Physics and hence engineering are completely dependent on calculus. Also highly dependent on calculus are the rest of the sciences -- physical, biological, and some social (especially economics). Also, probability and statistics depend completely on calculus.

Answer 4

well the main part of calculus is integration and differentiation.u have to learn the formulas but one thing is there if u learn differentiation formulae that means u have learnt integration formulae .

for example:d/dx[sinx]=cosx integralcosxdx=sinx...so u see...

Answer 5

calculus is a process: like unzipping you're pants to remove them... it takes a certain amount of so and so to do so and so, and... well, it's a process.

Answer 6

Calcius is a boring subject, it helps burn and give stress to students. Yup, thats my analysis. XP