| Calculus is a powerful tool that help us build | | | | can work out the rate of change of position, i.e. |
| bridges, design spaceships, perform medical | | | | your speed, with differential calculus. |
| research, create 3D games, etc. Calculus is a | | | | Integral calculus is a study of area and volume. |
| nightmare that haunts thousands of high school | | | | How much paint do you need to color a circle? |
| students and even university students. What | | | | How much water do you need to fill up a ball? |
| exactly calculus is? | | | | Integral calculus provides a way for doing all these |
| Calculus is a branch of mathematics that was | | | | calculation. |
| developed in seventeenth century independent by | | | | Who would use calculus? To what area is calculus |
| two great mathematicians, Gottfried Wilhelm | | | | applied? |
| Leibniz (1646 – 1716) and Sir Isaac Newton | | | | A wide range of careers use calculus regularly. |
| (1643 – 1727). There are two primary | | | | Biologists use differential calculus to determine the |
| branches of calculus, differential calculus and | | | | rate of growth of bacteria under different |
| integral calculus. | | | | settings; civil engineer use integral calculus to work |
| Differential calculus is a study of how things | | | | out the amount of materials that are required to |
| change. To be more precise, it is a study that | | | | build a bridge; financial analyst use calculus to |
| concerns the rate of change, and it provides a | | | | maximize portfolio gains. Indeed, we can see the |
| mathematical framework for modelling systems | | | | trace of calculus in every aspect of our daily life, |
| that evolve continuously. For example, when you | | | | despite its mystique as a complex branch of |
| drive a car, your position changes continuously | | | | mathematics. |
| and if you know your position all the time, you | | | | |