Part one of term paper
Mr. Millard Smallwood is a computer programmer, working for the United States Government. He works in the Defense Intelligence Agency, currently assigned to Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center at Fort Detrick, in Frederick Maryland. When asked about the use of Calculus in his line of work, Mr. Smallwood reflected about the usefulness of ...

Part two of term paper
... We then discussed the major applications of Calculus for the defense department. One area that Calculus is used in, is the study of motion. It allows finding the acceleration or velocity of a moving object at any time during it’s path. Distance, time, velocity and acceleration are all linked together using calculus formulation. Calculus is also used in the study of optics. Finding the tangent to a given curve at a specific point allows us to determine at what angle a light ray strikes a len ...