ASU TRAIN Scholarship Application for Spring 2021 Open!

You asked, we listened!  Applications for ASU's TRAIN Scholarship, if you plan to transfer for Spring 2021, are open!  Applications are due November 2, 2020.

This is a needs-based scholarship. Please make sure ASU has your up to date FAFSA and you have applied to ASU as soon as you can.  It takes awhile to get accepted to ASU and to get the financial aid packages configured.  We can't award the TRAIN Scholarship without a FAFSA and your admittance to ASU.

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Why do I, as a Bio major, use calculus?

Why do I, as a Bio major, use calculus?

Derivatives can be used, for example, to:

• Find rate of muscle contraction
• Study dissolution of drugs in the bloodstream  - Noyes -Whitney equation https://www.pharmpress.com/files/docs/remington-education-physical-pharmacy-sample-chapter-3.pdf
• Analyze bacterial growth   https://www.britannica.com/science/bacteria/Growth-of-bacterial-populations
• Study population modeling - Logistical growth, Euler's method
• Study predator - prey modeling - Lotka-Voltera Equations, predator satiation, species formation   https://services.math.duke.edu/education/webfeats/Word2HTML/Predator.html
• Study infectious disease modeling - SIR model https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/loci/joma/the-sir-model-for-spread-of-disease-the-differential-equation-model

Integrals can be used, for example, to:

• Find the change of temperature over a given time interval
• Find the voltage of brain neurons
• Study the dispersal of seeds in the environment
• Find the average rate of blood flow in the body 

Chain rule can be used, for example, to:

• Find the effect of rainfall on a predator
• Growth of tumors

Two good additional references:

http://www-eve.ucdavis.edu/sschreiber/reprints/MAA.pdf

https://math.msu.edu/bio/calculus.html

 

written by Dr. Hala King, Ph.D.