How does Pre-calculus relate to Calculus&Graphing Calculators |
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| So calculus sounds pretty cool. Really cool, actually - compressing data, predicting weather, saving people from hurricanes, finding volumes of crazy shapes, exploring the depths of space - the list goes on and on. So what am doing learning pre-calculus, when I could be learning this awesome calculus stuff? Well, precalculus provides one with all of the necessary steps to understand the intriguing world of calculus. Pre-calculus gives one insight on the basics of functions - linear, exponential, polynomial, logarithmic, radical, trigonometric, greatest integer, and c step functions. Without a basic understanding of how to add, subtract, multiply and divide these functions, calculus would be impossible because calculus expounds on these basic concepts of pre-calculus. Pre-calculus is the like the arithmetic of functions instead of numbers. A question one should ask themselves is "Could algebra be possible without an understanding of arithmetic - how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers?". If precalculus is arithmetic, then calculus would be algebra There are also some parallels between calculus and its predecessor, pre-calculus. Asymptotes, a topic in precalculus, are strikingly similar to limits in calculus.
All of the precalculus functions can be graphed with a graphing calculator. If one knows the formulas and fully understands the concepts of using calculus - limits, derivatives ,and integrals for starters, then they can compute it on the calculator. Use the link below to solve any function!
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