Neeum Zawan wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> writes:
> 
>> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>>> I dunno. My textbook made it clear it was about summing infinitesimal
>>> quantities.  
>> Yeah, but what is it *for*?  When, outside of calc class, would you ever
>> do such a thing?  That's what I hadn't figured out.
> 
> They had the usual examples, like calculating work by integrating the
> force. 

Right. That's the physics I was talking about. I never saw examples in our 
textbooks about *why* you want to do this thing. Just curves, and how to 
figure out the area underneath. Not where the curves came from.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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