Applications of Calculus (MAA Notes Series #29: Resources for Calculus)

Many students leave a traditional calculus course with very little sense of the powerful role calculus plays in the modern world. They don't know that calculus is the language which describes anything that changes, that much of technology is based on ideas from calculus, that calculus is useful in social science as well as physical and biological science, or that optimization is a key to efficiently in business and industrial processes. If we merely tell students these things, they may not take …