International Journal of Research (IJR) Vol-1, Issue-11 December 2014 ISSN 2348-6848
Application of Derivatives in Real Life
Kartik Singh(16225); Akshat Sharma(16194); Govind Rajput(16212) & Devesh Kasturia(16205)
Students- Dronacharya College of Engineering
• Differentiation and integration can
ABSTRACT: - This paper describes help us solve many types of real-
about the usefulness of derivatives in real world problems.
life. ISSAAC NEWTON –THE FATHER OF
• We use the derivative to determine
CALCULUS invented the calculus. But
the maximum and minimum
anyone knows what made Isaac invent
values of particular functions (e.g.
calculus??? Here in this paper there are all
cost, strength, amount of material
the answers of your questions.
used in a building, profit, loss, etc.).
INTRODUCTION
• Derivatives are met in
“dy/dx” means the rate of change of y with many engineering and
respect to rate of change of x. It gives the science problems, especially when
instantaneous rate of change. “dy/dx” is modeling the behavior of moving
positive if y increases with increase of x but objects.
negative if y decreases with increase of x.
• Our discussion begins with some
BIRTH of APPLICATION OF general applications which we can
DERIVATIVES then apply to specific problems.
• In Isaac Newton's day, one of the USES
biggest problems was
1. It is used in ECONOMIC a lot ,
poor navigation at sea.
calculus is also a base of economics
•
2. It is used in history, for predicting
Before calculus was developed, the
the life of a stone.
stars were vital for navigation.
3. It is used in geography, which is
• Shipwrecks occurred because the
used to study the gases present in the
ship was not where the captain
atmosphere.
thought it should be. There was not a
good enough understanding of how 4. It is mainly used by pilots to measure
the Earth, stars and planets moved the pressure in the air.
with respect to each other.
And Many More
• Calculus (differentiation and
integration) was developed to APPLICATIONS OF DERIVATIVES
improve this understanding.
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We've spent a lot of time in this course is the velocity, and the second derivative is
studying derivatives. While derivatives are acceleration.
interesting from a mathematical perspective,
their true power comes from their Q. Suppose a cubic crystal is growing
applications to problems in the real world. so that the side changes at the rate of
There are countless areas where derivatives 10mm per second when the side
are used, but some of the most important are length is 20 mm. If I want to know
mathematical physics, biology and how fast the volume of the cube is
economics. We'll list some specific growing at that time, I must use the
examples here. These will not be covered on equation V=x^3 and take the implicit
the final, and they are simply designed to derivative with respect to t and solve
give you a taste of how calculus is used in for dV/dt.
the real world. (A cubic cell is the one that has all
its sides equal and at right angle to
1. Biology
each other)
To model population growth, ecosystems,
the spread of disease and various other 3. ECONOMICS
phenomena. The area that we will focus on In particular, we'll show how optimization
here is population growth. (finding minimum and maximum values)
Q. Consider Patient Zero became infected can be useful in economics.
on day 0, and each person per day gets Q. Consider we need to maximize profit.
infected afterward. This caused the Suppose that p(x) is the price per unit that a
population of infected to double every day. company can charge to sell x units. The total
So, the population at time t was given by revenue gained by selling this particular
P(t) = 2^t (exponential function),where t is product is R(x) = xp(x) If we let C(x) denote
the no. of day. the cost of manufacturing and selling x
units, then the profit made by selling x units
Finding rate of growth= P’ (t) = (2^t) log2 is P(x) = R(x)-C(x).
i.e. a DIFFERENTIAL equation
To maximize this, we need to find the
(Though the above model cannot be stated critical points of the function i.e.
ideal as we are not considering those who differentiate it….P’(x) so
dies due to the infection thus a better model
can be formed using differential equation 1. If P’(x) <0 =>PROFIT
that considers all the other points) 2. If P’(x)>0 =>LOSS
2. Physics
We've already seen some applications of
derivatives to physics. In particular, we saw
that the first derivative of a position function
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