If you had asked me this question in I would have said no. Now it is within the realm of possibility, for some non-trivial systems, with your use of your laptop or desk computer. The fundamental idea of calculus is to study change by studying "instantaneous " change, by which we mean changes over tiny intervals of time. It turns out that such changes tend to be lots simpler than changes over finite intervals of time. This means they are lots easier to model. In fact calculus was invented by Newton, who discovered that acceleration, which means change of speed of objects could be modeled by his relatively simple laws of motion.
This leaves us with the problem of deducing information about the motion of objects from information about their speed or acceleration. And the details of calculus involve the interrelations between the concepts exemplified by speed and acceleration and that represented by position.
To begin with you have to have a framework for describing such notions as position speed and acceleration. Single variable calculus, which is what we begin with, can deal with motion of an object along a fixed path.
The more general problem, when motion can take place on a surface, or in space, can be handled by multivariable calculus. We study this latter subject by finding clever tricks for using the one dimensional ideas and methods to handle the more general problems.
So single variable calculus is the key to the general problem as well. When we deal with an object moving along a path, its position varies with time we can describe its position at any time by a single number, which can be the distance in some units from some fixed point on that path, called the origin of our coordinate system.
We add a sign to this distance, which will be negative if the object is behind the origin. The motion of the object is then characterized by the set of its numerical positions at relevant points in time. The set of positions and times that we use to describe motion is what we call a function.
And similar functions are used to describe the quantities of interest in all the systems to which calculus is applied. The course here starts with a review of numbers and functions and their properties. You are undoubtedly familiar with much of this, so we have attempted to add unfamiliar material to keep your attention while looking at it. I would love to have you look at it, since I wrote it, but if you prefer not to, you could undoubtedly get by skipping it, and referring back to it when or if you need to do so.
However you will miss the new information, and doing so could blight you forever. Though I doubt it. How to find the instantaneous change called the "derivative" of various functions.
The process of doing so is called "differentiation". One of the foremost branches of mathematics is calculus. The formal study of calculus started from the 17th century by well-known scientists and mathematicians like Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, although it is possible that it has been at use as early as the Greek era. It is a mathematical discipline that is primarily concerned with functions, limits, derivatives, and integrals just to name a few.
This discipline has a unique legacy over the history of mathematics. Even though it is split between the 2 definitions of Newton and Leibniz, it has still been able to create a new mathematical system and was used in a variety of applications. There are 2 different fields of calculus. The first subfield is called differential calculus. Using the concept of function derivatives, it studies the behavior and rate on how different quantities change. Using the process of differentiation, the graph of a function can actually be computed, analyzed, and predicted.
The second subfield is called integral calculus. Integration is actually the reverse process of differentiation, concerned with the concept of the anti-derivative. Either a concept, or at least semblances of it, has existed for centuries already. Even though these 2 subfields are generally different form each other, these 2 concepts are linked by the fundamental theorem of calculus.
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Newton invented it first, but Leibniz created the notations that mathematicians use today. There are two types of calculus: Differential calculus determines the rate of change of a quantity, while integral calculus finds the quantity where the rate of change is known. Featured Video. Cite this Article Format. Russell, Deb. Definition and Practical Applications. What Is Calculus?
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