In my mind, however, one item that has to be on the list is calculus. The primary reason engineering and science have progressed rapidly is our ability to model natural phenomena using mathematical ...

Here the y-component of the position for P is known not as an explicit function of time, but rather as a function of the x-component of its position. For velocity and acceleration, you need ...

I keep hearing economists say that some indicators are showing a "positive second derivative." What does that mean? It is a mathematical term, and there's nothing like a little mathematics to make ...