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Originally Posted by jmanela
How much to engineers actually use calculus? What is the proportion of Non-Calc vs. Calc computations?
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Don't be intimidated by calculus.
Check out the first 47 seconds of
this video,
and the first 70 seconds of
this video,
for one reason why calculus has gotten a bad rap.
Calculus is not difficult to learn and use, especially if you care more about the application (engineering emphasis) than the theory (math major). With all the
CAS tools available today (like
maxima), all the grunt work (like finding integrals) is gone and it's actually fun.