An important prerequisite to using calculus to analyze "real-world" situations is having a good understanding of the basic "elementary" functions: polynomials, logarithms, trigonometric functions, and all their compositions, inverses, etc.
Calculus, being the study of quantities that change, provides the language and the mathematical tools to discuss and understand change in a precise, quantitative way. The first true test of any scientific theory is whether or not people can use it to make accurate predictions. Larry Gladney is Associate Professor of Physics and Dennis DeTurck is Professor of Mathematics, both at the University of Pennsylvania.
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