<p>I was just wondering where calculus is used in real life ??
I know that many science professions use it, such as engineering, but what else?? like, what kind of inventions were made possible by the use of calculus ??</p>
<p>your house lol</p>
<p>calc is useless. stupid newton.</p>
<p>whenever you want to optimize something, calculus is there
whenever someone is figuring out a rate, calculus is there
whenever someone is doing economics, calculus is there</p>
<p>You wouldn’t be on CC without calculus.</p>
<p>Calculus, like most other math, has very little practical application. BUT, calculus’ conceptual nature teaches you how to THINK (which is largely why math is in school to begin with).</p>
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<p>Sorry, that was the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. You wouldn’t have a computer without it.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry; I didn’t realize high school students considered computer technology to fall in the realm of “practical application”. Perhaps you should re-read my post before getting ahead of yourself there buddy.</p>
<p>You need to see the movie Pi.</p>
<p>Agreed, pi is an interesting movie.</p>
<p>I think the term “practical application” largely depends on the field you’re looking into.</p>
<p>No, “practical application” means that it would apply to applications that are “in practice” (according to the dictionary). Something cannot be “in practice” unless it is happening in the present. Since we are high school students, my claim stands: calculus has very little practical applications. But, if it weren’t for calculus, I would be much more stupid. Why? Because calculus made me think of things in a conceptual way I had never before done. It was a good class and I would recommend it to anyone.</p>
<p>Sorry, your contrived definition is beyond me. What you wrote was that calculus has very little practical application. You didn’t write that for a high school student, calculus is not practical. Perhaps you should have specified that?</p>
<p>By the way, a definition to “practical application.”</p>
<p>’ : the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose; “he advocated the application of statistics to the problem”; “a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis”'</p>
<p>I am a physicist/engineer and I use calculus all the time - particulary integral calculus. It is also fundamental to being able to do differential equations which have applications in electrical and mechanical engineering. It isn’t a coincidence that the industrial revolution occured after Newton’s discovery of calculus. It is fundamental to all scientific thought.</p>
<p>Calculus doesn’t have practical applications?? Then what does – history?? English? heh. Your definition of the phrase “practical applications” is very vague. People do jack**** in high school so you can apply that phrase to everything.</p>
<p>Hell, technically nothing we learn in school has a “practical application” besides basic math operations if you only want to work at Burger King.</p>
<p>You use it in your Calculus class, right?</p>
<p>there would be no modern technology without calculus…guess it’s not practical though…wasn’t calculus created for physics? I don’t suppose we need that either, then.</p>
<p>you guys are true nerds…</p>
<p>only stupid people ask questions like that</p>
<p>lol probly sean11.</p>
<p>I think when the dude says practical applications he means you will almost never encounter a real life situation where calculus is neccessary or even beneficial to the solution of a problem. U don’t need it to operate a computer or play an instrument or whatever. Only certain classes (like physics 2) and certain jobs (engineering) actually make use of calculus. then again, nearly all classes are like this. Cept english. Cuz decent communication skills are gooooooooooooood</p>
<p>PS. not dissing the subject or nothin. Love math (almost as much as science). but I dont think I will ever need to know how to determine the area under a curve or any other wonders calculus can teach me. </p>
<p>GeorgeS 's exp. w/ calulus is kinda like mine w/ computer programming. There is no way I am going to need to know how to parse a string or add elements to an arraylist ( I suck at programming and will under no means use it in my progession) but I had a wonderful teacher who helped me to really learn the material and think for myself. I program for fun now 
(sadly, true. working on a team assign program for a teach)</p>
<p>so I figure the guy isn’t insulting calculus but saying most people do not need to know it in any shape form or fashion </p>
<p>P.S.S. sorry for the verbiage in the earlier part of my post.</p>
<p>P.S.S.S. sorry for the descension to craptacular in the later part of my post</p>