How to ace calculus : the streetwise guide

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How to ace calculus : the streetwise guide

Colin Adams, Joel Hass, Abigail Thompson

W.H. Freeman & Company, 1998

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Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This text provides an informal, student-oriented guide to calculus. It contains practical explanations together with real-world examples and may be used alongside other textbooks

目次

  • Exactly who and what is your instructor?
  • the general principles of acing calculus
  • good and bad questions
  • are you ready? the calc prereqs
  • how to handle the exam
  • lines, circles and their friends
  • limits - you gotta have them
  • continuity or why you shouldn't ski down continuous slopes
  • what is the derivative? change is good
  • the limit definition of the derivative - finding derivatives the hard way
  • derivatives - how to find them the easy way
  • velocity and acceleration - put the pedal to the metal
  • the chain rules - S&M made easy
  • graphing - how to doodle like an expert
  • maxima and minima - the bread and butter section
  • implicit differentiation - let's be oblique
  • related rates - you change, I change
  • the differential - estimating your way to fame and glory
  • the intermediate value of theorem and the mean value theorem
  • integration -doing it all backwards
  • the definite integral
  • modelling - from toy planes to the runway
  • exponents and logarithms - a review of all that "e" hoopla
  • doing that calc thing to exponents and logs
  • logarithmic differentiation - making the hard stuff easy
  • exponential growth and decay - the rise and fall of slime
  • fancy pants techniques of integration
  • the twenty most common exam mistakes
  • what's going to be on the final?
  • glossary - a quick guide to the mathematical jargon.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA48248133
  • ISBN
    • 0716732874
    • 0716731606
  • LCCN
    97051944
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    x, 230, xiip.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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