Calculus book

[peach]

Hi all:

Can anyone suggest me a good book or any other source to learn the practical significance of calculus. I have learnt a lot of deffentiation and integration, but dont know what is the practical significance. I will really appreciate any help
Thanks
Peach

[rahuldandekar]

Well, calculus is used in Physics a lot (bet you already knew that).

This is a page with links to documents on calculus, and it has a document on "Applications of integration".

http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~lee/calculus/

[peach]

Thanks a lot for the reply. I havent got a chance to look into the site you mentioned. Basically I am playing a lot with statistics these days and impressed by the practical use of it. I was just wondering if there is book that describes the practical use of calculus.
Thanks once again and will get back to you after i had gone thru the website.
Peach

Originally Posted by rahuldandekar

Well, calculus is used in Physics a lot (bet you already knew that).

This is a page with links to documents on calculus, and it has a document on "Applications of integration".

http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~lee/calculus/

[UncleAl]

Newton, Isaac. 1687, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Newton, Isaac The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Trans. I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, with the assistance of Julia Budenz (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1999)

Any college-level physics textbook, any engineering texbook, any textbook on anything that has real world meaning and numerical answers.