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"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
11/29/2017 at 19:32 • Filed to: None

Would the world be a better place if calculus was never invented?

DISCUSSION (35)

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 19:40

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
11/29/2017 at 19:42

YES

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 19:43

tromoly > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 19:44

You would not have Engineering, meaning everyone would be Bachelors of Arts majors (* shudders *) and cars, airplanes, cell phones, computers, and countless other feats of technology would not exist.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 19:45

No. Nopaty nope a nono.

E90M3 > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 19:45

World? No.

My GPA? Yes.

Steve in Manhattan > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 19:46

Ask Leibniz ...

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > tromoly
11/29/2017 at 19:51

I don’t think Henry Ford or the Wright brothers knew calculus! Plus that would just mean we wouldn’t have to worry about global warming!

AestheticsInMotion > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 19:54

The world would not... Function.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 19:57

As a Physics teacher many of my students share your viewpoint, that is Calculus only seems to exist to make problems more complex and tedious.

Scary__goongala! > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 19:59

My GPA would be better if Calc was never invented I know that much.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 20:00

Beam equations, breh. There are tables for them, sure, but you can barely design anything that experiences any kind of load whatsoever without them in at least a table form, and the tables are derived *accurately* using calculus. Literally everything is a beam.

The Wright’s wing spar sizing, Henry Ford’s chassis rails - technically possible to come up with via trial and error, but not practical - and the industries that made all the parts needed their own beam equations solved. The strength of the parts in industrial lumber mills, the loads-handling at the foundry. Beams LITERALLY everywhere and for everything. The industrial revolution is beams.

Oh, and all the heat transfer and braking and torque and so on. All their own calculus forms.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > AestheticsInMotion
11/29/2017 at 20:03

It would, you just wouldn’t have derivatives of those functions!

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/29/2017 at 20:05

We’ll use boards instead of beams! Ha, now what?

AestheticsInMotion > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 20:05

Uh.... Something, something, related rates, anti-derivatives, indefinite integrals.....

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 20:10

I so desperately want to make a “what if the WTC had used steel boards?” joke.

Chariotoflove > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 20:16

No. They would just find other ways to torture students.

Source: a professor who thinks up ways to torture students.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/29/2017 at 20:22

Well we know jet fuel can’t melt wood!

Chariotoflove > Phyrxes once again has a wagon!
11/29/2017 at 20:27

My high school physics teacher taught mechanics without calculus because not all the eleventh graders had calculus yet. He used to teach a unit on calculus to start the course, but stopped and resorted to just giving equations without.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 20:28

Calculus was Newton’s work, right? I had to look it up and saw he argued with Leibniz over who did it first. Leibniz is a name I remember from math but I don’t remember wtf it was for; I think he had some constant or formula or some shit named after him.

Anyway, I’m glad that many people I don’t know or ever heard of have done things I don’t or could ever comprehend so that I can marvel in the blissful ignorance their contributions have made to mankind.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 20:28

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dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 20:43

Definitely not. Full disclosure: I failed my first calculus course (IB HL maths). But then I went on to do calc and diff eq. 10/10 would not unlearn.

wafflesnfalafel > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 20:48

Calculus is a pain in the a$$, largely the reason why I’m not an engineer right now. But I absolutely f’n love what it can do. You want to drop into orbit a million miles away while doing 350,000 mph? Got it covered. How about calculating wind loads on a 3 mile long suspension bridge? Handled. Optimize fuel burn in your high performance turbo motor? Yep, that too. Blast a ton of payload into orbit AND F’N LAND BACK ON A BARGE IN THE OCEAN? Calculus...

Recovering Gaijin > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 21:03

Calculus is kinda my kryptonite: I’ve dropped out of it 3 times. First was on me: partying not studying. Other two times I just couldn’t get it. Need to try again and work harder at it.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 21:06

The real question is would Richard Hammond look that good wearing a long, blond wig?

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Chariotoflove
11/29/2017 at 21:07

True, honestly though mechanics doesn’t really need much calculus unless you want to get fancy. Most of it is just chain rule and product rule everything.

It’s when string has mass, inclines are curved, and pulleys have moments that it gets messy.

EngineerWithTools > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 21:13

Gottfried Leibniz would like a word...

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > gin-san - shitpost specialist
11/29/2017 at 21:46

From what I remember they really developed it around the same time. Newton got published first so he gets credit for inventing it and Liebniz for validating that he “made up math correctly.” Liebniz notation is the one we use over Newtons though, and from what I understand that is a good thing.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 22:15

Do you like cars? Yeah those need calculus.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
11/29/2017 at 22:17

FAKE NEWS! We could build a car without calculus! It might not be very reliable, or good, but that’s besides the point.

Chariotoflove > Phyrxes once again has a wagon!
11/29/2017 at 23:08

Yeah, it got messy enough that I decided the Astrophysics major wasn’t for me after all.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Chariotoflove
11/29/2017 at 23:13

This is also the reason that I elected to go the teacher route instead of being an engineer or a Physicist. When I declared my major my Physics professor asked if I was still going to take multi-variable Calculus and some Theoretical Physics class, it was hard to not laugh and say NO!

PS9 > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/29/2017 at 23:18

No.

Chariotoflove > Phyrxes once again has a wagon!
11/29/2017 at 23:21

I decided Chemistry and Biochemistry was for me. Of course, there’s a lot of math creeping in to my field now with bioinformatics becoming huge. So, there is no escaping math.

pip bip - choose Corrour > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/30/2017 at 05:16

never did calculus at school.

so no idea.