/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5020117]

Can you guys give some real life applications to calculus, like motivating math stuff.

I got AP Calc with the same cunt I had Pre-Cal with, no real life examples and i basically forgot everything.

[Anonymous No.5020119]

enjoy your underage and homework ban

[Anonymous No.5020122]

>>5020117

Use KhanAcademy and relearn it.

[Anonymous No.5020125]

>>5020119
This is not an 18+ board, I have every right to be here.

[Anonymous No.5020132]

F=ma

[Anonymous No.5020134]

Im not asking to relearn, in pre calc i remeber just doing alot of line graphs and such.

Can someone just explain how i could use that to plot a microwave or something?

Or is Calculus a bunch of hypothetical math bullshit that doesn't fit into anything in the physical world?

[Anonymous No.5020141]

>>5020125
>http://www.4chan.org/rules
If you are under the age of 18, or it is illegal for you to view the materials contained on this website, discontinue browsing immediately.

Fuck off

[sage No.5020145]

>>5020134
You are scum of the earth. Please kill yourself promptly.

Not only are you incredibly ignorant, pretentious, incompetent, and underage rule violator, you are also incapable of using a search engine to solve your babby homework problems.

[Anonymous No.5020150]

>>5020134
What exactly do you mean by plotting a microwave?

If you want to find out how microwaves will be emitted/absorbed/reflected/etc. in some scenario, then yes of course you're going to need to know your goddamn calculus. For pretty much anything in physics you need calculus. Almost everything is based on differential equations.

[Anonymous No.5020151]

>>5020141
You think people actually care about the general rules? Its simple, go on the front page and click on /s/, it says it contains adult material and you must be 18.

I click on this page and no box pops up.


Now are you going to give me some examples or are you going to keep being a cunt?

This is not a homework thread either. I want something to get me motivated, seems like all this math bullshit is a waste of time.

At least im taking Physics.

[Anonymous No.5020153]

>>5020134
Calculus is anything but hypothetical.

The reason for it's very creation was because Newton needed a way to mathematically describe what is now known as classical physics.

[Anonymous No.5020155]

>Nerd
>0/19

[Anonymous No.5020164]

>>5020151
>its my first day on /sci/ XDDD
Your will enjoy an underage permaban when the mod comes on in 2 hours from now

Back to www.collegeconfidential.com

[Anonymous No.5020178]

>>5020134
Calculus is anything but hypothetical.

The reason for it's very creation was because Newton needed a way to mathematically describe what is now known as classical physics.

>>5020153
Motivate yourself. If you need random people on the internet to help you understand why mathematics is important you may want to reconsider your career options.

[Anonymous No.5020215]

OP, pay attention. If you like physics, calculus is amazing.
If you take the derivative of a position versus time function, you end up with a velocity function. If you take the derivative of a velocity versus time function, you end up with an acceleration versus time function. And, alas, all of those can be undone with the integral. Integrate an acceleration versus time function and it will give you the velocity versus time function, and integrate the velocity versus time function and you end up with position versus time.

[Anonymous No.5020248]

>>5020151
Listen to this guy OP >>5020215 he's right. There are many parts of mathematics that are still to get an application in physics, but calculus is definitely not one of them. Everything you will do in physics will end up using calculus. Once my physics teacher told me something along the line of "the only different between the physicist and the mathematician who does calculus is that the physicist considers energy".
Short answer: if you don't want to do calculus, surrender any hopes of doing hard science except for biology.