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Applications of Derivatives and Anti-Derivatives in Real Life

The document is a submission by Trisha N. Hernandez from Tayabas Western Academy in Candelaria, Quezon for a Basic Calculus course. It discusses various real-world applications of derivatives and anti-derivatives, including in business, games, teaching, relationships, character building in role-playing games, measuring air pressure for pilots, geography, analyzing curved shapes, measuring force, and predicting the longevity of stones for historical purposes.

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Applications of Derivatives and Anti-Derivatives in Real Life

The document is a submission by Trisha N. Hernandez from Tayabas Western Academy in Candelaria, Quezon for a Basic Calculus course. It discusses various real-world applications of derivatives and anti-derivatives, including in business, games, teaching, relationships, character building in role-playing games, measuring air pressure for pilots, geography, analyzing curved shapes, measuring force, and predicting the longevity of stones for historical purposes.

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Tayabas Western Academy

Founded 1928
Candelaria, Quezon

Applications Of Derivatives And


Anti-derivatives
In Real Life

In Partial Fulfillment For


Basic Calculus

Submitted by:
Trisha N. Hernandez
(STEM-Aquamarine)

Submitted to:
Mr. Archie R. Amido
What are the applications of Derivatives in real life?

Derivatives help us to understand how larger things are made from smaller things. Just like how a
curve is made of multiple infinite straight lines. Now, derivatives can tell you the instantaneous slope (dy/dx) of
this graph. Slope tells you the marginal cost of producing every additional unit at that instant.

Application 1: (Business)
 If you run a business ( say selling ice cream), derivatives can help you decide what quantity you should
sell.
-Your manager gives you some data how your business has been performing over the past few months.
You tabulate data and draw a curve to see the trend. So you sell each ice cream for 10 bucks.
x-axis shows the number of units you produced
y-axis shows the cost you incurred
(there is some fixed cost, as seen when units produced=0)
-You seem impressed with the growth shown in the graph. However, you are curious why the curve is
getting steeper as the quantity increases. Your manager tells you that since for producing more ice cream you need
more milk, he reaches out to milk sellers in other areas of the city to provide milk. So the transportation cost
increases, hence the steepness in the curve.
-At this moment you can feel happy that your products is in demand and that your business is growing.

Application 2: (Games: FPS)


 If you don’t understand derivatives, you will suck at many games.
-When you shoot at moving enemy, it is very easy to miss. So you need to “predict” where they might be
in the next moment, and then shoot there. That’s how you get them.
-How would you predict? You predict by checking out the direction and sped of their movements, i.e. the
derivative of their movement. Then when you predict their eventual location, you are unintentionally doing a
mental integration. That’s how you predict their movement and get your shoot.

Application 3: (Teaching)
 If you want to teach someone something, the ultimate goal is to increase their knowledge, say K. We can
simply let them memorize some knowledge at a fixed speed. So K’ is constant and we are increasing K at a constant
speed. So K grows like x.
-Now, rather than teach them the material, you can try to motivate their interests. With more interests in
the subject, they will learn faster. So motivating their interests is like increasing K’. So K’ is constant (the amount of
their current interests), and K’ is increasing at a constant speed, and K’ is like a parabola, like x^2.

Application 4: (Love life)


 Let’s say that the boy realized that his relationship with his girlfriend is periodic. They have two
good month of sweet times to each other and two bad month of fighting and arguing, then another two good
month and two bad month, and repeat. Why is that? How can he change that?
-Let us say X is the amount of love of the boy has for his girlfriend, and Y is the amount of love of his
girlfriend has for him. Both X and Y are functions of time t.
-So to sum up, Y’=X. (We were omitting constant here, as it depends on the “unit” of love and of time. For
simplicity of the model, let’s just say that I choose some units so that all constant involved are 1.)
-So to sum up, X’= -Y. Now, X’=Y and Y’=X form a very classical system of differential equations, and they
are very easy to solve. The solution is X=cos(t) an Y=sin(t).
-Now you can easily see the periodical nature of their relationship. Their relationship is periodic because
of their attitude towards love.
Application 5: (Games: D&D)
 You play D&D and feat let you exchange attack for damage. How many attack should you turn into
damage?
-Say you turn x attack into x damage. This means you are optimizing the DPR function (damage per
round), which would be a degree 2 polynomial in x. With the derivatives, you can find the optimal x for this DPR
function. Then your fighter will always fight a little better than other fighters of the same level.

What are the applications of Anti-derivatives in


real life?

Anti-derivatives can help us to solve many types of real-world problems. It was developed to
improve this understanding. We use this to determine the maximum and minimum values of particular functions
(e.g. cost, strength, amount of material used in a building, profit, loss, etc.).

Application 1: (Pilots)
 It is mainly used in daily by pilots to measure the pressure in the air. Shipwrecks occurred because the
ship was not where the captain thought it should be. There was not good enough understanding of how the Earth,
stars, and planets moved with respect to each other.

Application 2: (Geography)
 This differentiation and integration is usually used in geography, where it is an area of study that deals
with the location of countries, cities, rivers, mountains, lakes, etc. and it is used to study gases present in the
atmosphere.

Application 3: (Analyzing Curves)


 The moments of inertia explain how to find the resistance of a rotating body. We use integration when
the shapes has its curved sides and the operation of finding or solving a function whose differential is known or
equation.

Application 4: (Force)
 Let’s say that the librarian displaces a book from an upper shelf to a lower one. If the vertical distance
between the two shelves is away .5 meters and the weight of the book is 5.
-In order to be able to to lift the book and move it to its new position, the librarian must exert force that is
at least equal to the weight of the book.
-Here we say that the work is negative since there is a loss of gravitational potential energy rather than a
gain in energy. If the book is lifted to a higher shelf, then the work is positive, since there will be a gain in the
gravitational potential energy.

Application 5: (History)
 In differentiation and integration it is used also in part of history. Where some scientist are using it for
predicting how long life does the stone has to consider it as a precious one in history.

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