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Calculus Workbook For Dummies with Online Practice 3rd edition [Minkštas viršelis]

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(The Math Center, Winnetka, IL)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 249x201x23 mm, weight: 522 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 08-Jun-2018
  • Leidėjas: For Dummies
  • ISBN-10: 1119357489
  • ISBN-13: 9781119357483
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 249x201x23 mm, weight: 522 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 08-Jun-2018
  • Leidėjas: For Dummies
  • ISBN-10: 1119357489
  • ISBN-13: 9781119357483
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:

The easy way to conquer calculus

Calculus is hard—no doubt about it—and students often need help understanding or retaining the key concepts covered in class. Calculus Workbook For Dummies serves up the concept review and practice problems with an easy-to-follow, practical approach. Plus, you’ll get free access to a quiz for every chapter online.

With a wide variety of problems on everything covered in calculus class, you’ll find multiple examples of limits, vectors, continuity, differentiation, integration, curve-sketching, conic sections, natural logarithms, and infinite series. Plus, you’ll get hundreds of practice opportunities with detailed solutions that will help you master the math that is critical for scoring your highest in calculus.

  • Review key concepts
  • Take hundreds of practice problems
  • Get access to free chapter quizzes online
  • Use as a classroom supplement or with a tutor

Get ready to quickly and easily increase your confidence and improve your skills in calculus. 

Introduction 1(4)
About This Book
1(1)
Foolish Assumptions
2(1)
Icons Used in This Book
2(1)
Beyond the Book
3(1)
Where to Go from Here
3(2)
PART 1 PRE-CALCULUS REVIEW
5(36)
Chapter 1 Getting Down to Basics: Algebra and Geometry
7(18)
Fraction Frustration
7(2)
Misc. Algebra: You Know, Like Miss South Carolina
9(2)
Geometry: When Am I Ever Going to Need It?
11(5)
Solutions for This Easy, Elementary Stuff
16(9)
Chapter 2 Funky Functions and Tricky Trig
25(16)
Figuring Out Your Functions
25(4)
Trigonometric Calisthenics
29(4)
Solutions to Functions and Trigonometry
33(8)
PART 2 LIMITS AND CONTINUITY
41(36)
Chapter 3 A Graph Is Worth a Thousand Words: Limits and Continuity
43(10)
Digesting the Definitions: Limit and Continuity
44(2)
Taking a Closer Look: Limit and Continuity Graphs
46(4)
Solutions for Limits and Continuity
50(3)
Chapter 4 Nitty-Gritty Limit Problems
53(24)
Solving Limits with Algebra
54(5)
Pulling Out Your Calculator: Useful "Cheating"
59(2)
Making Yourself a Limit Sandwich
61(2)
Into the Great Beyond: Limits at Infinity
63(4)
Solutions for Problems with Limits
67(10)
PART 3 DIFFERENTIATION
77(114)
Chapter 5 Getting the Big Picture: Differentiation Basics
79(10)
The Derivative: A Fancy Calculus Word for Slope and Rate
79(2)
The Handy-Dandy Difference Quotient
81(3)
Solutions for Differentiation Basics
84(5)
Chapter 6 Rules, Rules, Rules: The Differentiation Handbook
89(28)
Rules for Beginners
89(3)
Giving It Up for the Product and Quotient Rules
92(2)
Linking Up with the Chain Rule
94(4)
What to Do with Y's: Implicit Differentiation
98(3)
Getting High on Calculus: Higher Order Derivatives
101(2)
Solutions for Differentiation Problems
103(14)
Chapter 7 Analyzing Those Shapely Curves with the Derivative
117(30)
The First Derivative Test and Local Extrema
117(3)
The Second Derivative Test and Local Extrema
120(2)
Finding Mount Everest: Absolute Extrema
122(4)
Smiles and Frowns: Concavity and Inflection Points
126(3)
The Mean Value Theorem: Go Ahead, Make My Day
129(2)
Solutions for Derivatives and Shapes of Curves
131(16)
Chapter 8 Using Differentiation to Solve Practical Problems
147(26)
Optimization Problems: From Soup to Nuts
147(3)
Problematic Relationships: Related Rates
150(3)
A Day at the Races: Position, Velocity, and Acceleration
153(4)
Solutions to Differentiation Problem Solving
157(16)
Chapter 9 Even More Practical Applications of Differentiation
173(18)
Make Sure You Know Your Lines: Tangents and Normals
173(4)
Looking Smart with Linear Approximation
177(2)
Calculus in the Real World: Business and Economics
179(4)
Solutions to Differentiation Problem Solving
183(8)
PART 4 INTEGRATION AND INFINITE SERIES
191(118)
Chapter 10 Getting into Integration
193(20)
Adding Up the Area of Rectangles: Kid Stuff
193(3)
Sigma Notation and Riemann Sums: Geek Stuff
196(4)
Close Isn't Good Enough: The Definite Integral and Exact Area
200(2)
Finding Area with the Trapezoid Rule and Simpson's Rule
202(3)
Solutions to Getting into Integration
205(8)
Chapter 11 Integration: Reverse Differentiation
213(16)
The Absolutely Atrocious and Annoying Area Function
213(3)
Sound the Trumpets: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
216(3)
Finding Antiderivatives: The Guess-and-Check Method
219(2)
The Substitution Method: Pulling the Switcheroo
221(4)
Solutions to Reverse Differentiation Problems
225(4)
Chapter 12 Integration Rules for Calculus Connoisseurs
229(26)
Integration by Parts: Here's How u du It
229(4)
Transfiguring Trigonometric Integrals
233(2)
Trigonometric Substitution: It's Your Lucky Day!
235(2)
Partaking of Partial Fractions
237(4)
Solutions for Integration Rules
241(14)
Chapter 13 Who Needs Freud? Using the Integral to Solve Your Problems
255(22)
Finding a Function's Average Value
255(1)
Finding the Area between Curves
256(2)
Volumes of Weird Solids: No, You're Never Going to Need This
258(7)
Arc Length and Surfaces of Revolution
265(3)
Solutions to Integration Application Problems
268(9)
Chapter 14 Infinite (Sort of) Integrals
277(10)
Getting Your Hopes Up with L'Hopital's Rule
278(2)
Disciplining Those Improper Integrals
280(3)
Solutions to Infinite (Sort of) Integrals
283(4)
Chapter 15 Infinite Series: Welcome to the Outer Limits
287(22)
The Nifty nth Term Test
287(2)
Testing Three Basic Series
289(2)
Apples and Oranges ... and Guavas: Three Comparison Tests
291(4)
Ratiocinating the Two "R" Tests
295(2)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Alternating Series
297(2)
Solutions to Infinite Series
299(10)
PART 5 THE PART OF TENS
309(10)
Chapter 16 Ten Things about Limits, Continuity, and Infinite Series
311(4)
The 33333 Mnemonic
311(2)
First 3 over the "1": 3 parts to the definition of a limit
312(1)
Fifth 3 over the "1": 3 cases where a limit fails to exist
312(1)
Second 3 over the "1": 3 parts to the definition of continuity
312(1)
Fourth 3 over the "1": 3 cases where continuity fails to exist
312(1)
Third 3 over the "m": 3 cases where a derivative fails to exist
313(1)
The 13231 Mnemonic
313(2)
First 1: The nth term test of divergence
313(1)
Second 1: The nth term test of convergence for alternating series
313(1)
First 3: The three tests with names
313(1)
Second 3: The three comparison tests
314(1)
The 2 in the middle: The two R tests
314(1)
Chapter 17 Ten Things You Better Remember about Differentiation
315(4)
The Difference Quotient
315(1)
The First Derivative Is a Rate
315(1)
The First Derivative Is a Slope
316(1)
Extrema, Sign Changes, and the First Derivative
316(1)
The Second Derivative and Concavity
316(1)
Inflection Points and Sign Changes in the Second Derivative
316(1)
The Product Rule
317(1)
The Quotient Rule
317(1)
Linear Approximation
317(1)
"PSST," Here's a Good Way to Remember the Derivatives of Trig Functions
317(2)
Index 319
Mark Ryan has taught pre-algebra through calculus for more than 25 years. In 1997, he founded The Math Center in Winnetka, Illinois, where he teaches junior high and high school mathematics courses as well as standardized test prep classes. He also does extensive one-on-one tutoring. He is a member of the Authors Guild and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.