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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> writes:
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>> 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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