Name: MANALO, REGINE T.

Course: BA BROADCASTING
Section: 1-A

CHAPTER 4: The Constants of Change

REFLECTION
By reading this whole chapter it took a minute for me to compose the exact word I
wanted to say, after a while I realized something and I express this through the words “Nothing
is permanent only change itself”. As I read this chapter it enlightened me that numbers help to
synthesize the changes that we need to know which contributes information about the reality we
are currently in. For example, the "heat equation," which determines how heat flows through a
conducting body, is all about the rate of change of the body's temperature; and the "wave
equation," which governs the motion of waves in water, air, or other materials, is about the rate
of change of the height of the wave.
According to one view, the universe obeys fixed, immutable laws, and everything exists
in a well-defined objective reality. The opposing view is that there is no objective reality; all is
flux, and all is change. Because of this ageless debate about rigid laws and flexible change.
Hence it wants us to realize that the two perceptions are just a shadow that hides something
above all. With the help of Isaac Newton who is the one offered an essentially static model of
nature in the field of Mathematics, based on the written essay of John Maynard Keynes he
proclaims Newton as “ the Man, saw things differently”. This shows that Newton is the last
great mind who looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who
began to build our intellectual inheritance. I learned from him that in his mathematics we can
find the first significant step toward a worldview that transcends and unites both rigid law and
flexible flux. The universe may appear to be a storm-tossed ocean of change and perfection was
thought to be unblemished by change.
Because of this chapter, I was able to convince myself that Calculus, therefore a big
contribution in providing a technique, which nowadays is called integration that allows us to
move from knowledge of acceleration at any instant to the knowledge of velocity. For instance,
the given example “The cannonball's motion”, illustrates three mathematical patterns determined
by a cannonball: height, velocity, and acceleration. Clearly stated there that we can solve the
given problem if we are not to use the calculus we can then obtain knowledge of position at any
instant. As I previously stated, velocity is the rate at which a position changes. As I comprehend
this I conclude that acceleration is the rate at which velocity changes. Calculus is a mathematical
technique created to address inquiries regarding rates of change. In particular, it offers a method
for determining rates differentiation, a process of transformation. Integration the impact of
distinction is "undone".
An essential lesson is presented by Newton's law of motion: Specifically, the link
between natural laws and natural behavior that changes constantly does not need to be blunt and
obvious. Concerning our conduct, it is a crevice, in which the laws that generate it must be
observed, and only mathematical computations can cross the gap in the human mind. It is not
intended to imply that nature is mathematical. Although the sources of nature's regularities and
patterns vary, Math is, at the very least, a highly powerful tool for can help others understand
those patterns. By exploring Isaac Newton's fundamental discovery that change in nature can be
explained, all of the laws of physics that have since been found in mathematical procedures are
described, each a different rate of change equation. Since a rate of change is the difference
between a current amount and its value at some point in the future, differential equations are
those of this type. The word "differentiation" shares this antecedent.
Always remember that the only constant in this world is changing and it is our
responsibility to explore and enhance the changes through the nature of numbers. Let say we
should normalize and accept that numbers is part of our journey as human being adjusting to the
constant changes brought us by many forces.