how is it useful in our lives? any real-world applications?
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Integration is commonly described as “computing the area under a curve”.
It is often used when you are dealing with something that goes on and on continuously (not necessarily a constant!) and you want to know when you can stop because the sum of all those somethings so far has reached a certain value (“enough” for whatever it is you’re doing).
Let’s say you are collecting rainwater. You have a large container and you’re willing to wait, but you want to know how many days you need to get a certain amount of water, say 50 liters. You know that, wherever you are, it rains heavily twice a week in the first three months, then it stops raining for six months, then it rains lightly 3 times a week in the last three months. How long before you collect 50 liters? What about 30? What if you start on October?
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