User:AlbertKonig
Hey everyone, my name is Albert and well I'm a first year science student; my major is Food, Nutrition and Health in I am in faculty of Land/Food systems (short LFS). I'm new in Canada and I have been to different places here (deep cove, Victoria Island, and some other places), but I reckon that I just have seen a small portion of what this so called "beautiful place on earth" has to offer. Hence I appreciate any kind of suggestion where I can go or what places are worth to visit ^_^
Though I am in LFS I am very interested in cell biology and life sciences in general. As far of now, I can’t anymore count how many time I encountered different formulas of interpreting, predicting and analyzing different factors of colonization of bacteria, cell reproductions and how long a healing process of a small cut can last, medical developments (producing billions of antibacterial in only hours) etc etc. Hence, all these functions: "algorithms, arithmetic functions, graphs, Pythagorean theorem etc", that we are studying are not only helpful for engineering guys (to build safe housetops above our heads) but also for making us having a longer life span.
--> Calculus in our life
As we all may be aware of (and as we talked in class) math is a course and a subject that is involved in almost everything around us. When we go to the supermarket to do grocery shopping, when we try to tank our car, when we play games, and many other things. But one application in math is a very important one. This part is Calculus. Calculus, which generally saying, is the fundamental idea of algebra and geometry. And these two basic ideas in mathematics are used in different fields such as biology, physics, astronomy, architecture, etc. One of the very interesting application of calculus in my opinion is the weather forecast that is used for different natural phenomena such as lightening or storm. This field in particular is interesting because even when we have a model that may be able to predict specific scenarios it may not be always right, because not every storm hits the same tree on the same place at the same time. Calculus, in particular, in this field can be used to predict the rate of change of location of the storm (dx) from one point to another point in a period of time (dt); in physical terms this means the speed of the storm. In addition if we want to calculate the acceleration of the storm we have to take the second derivative of dx (location of the storm) at that period of time (dt); explained by the equation: (d(dx/dt)/dt). Another application of calculus is to calculate the energy of the storm during a specific distance that it leaves behind. This can be calculated by integration. This means that we have to calculate the area under the curve of the force versus distance and hence find out how much destruction the storm has caused, as an example. There are many other applications that can be used to calculate different effects of calculus. Possible examples are to calculate the different rotation within the storm and the different force of destruction that may apply at different altitudes and regions.