An easy-to-understand primer on advanced calculus topics Calculus II is a prerequisite for many popular college majors, including pre-med, engineering, and physics. Calculus II For Dummies offers expert instruction, advice, and tips to help second semester calculus students get a handle on the subject and ace their exams. It covers intermediate calculus topics in plain English, featuring in-depth coverage of integration, including substitution, integration...

This hands-on guide makes calculus manageable-- even if it makes you sweat! Ryan leads you step-by-step through each concept, operation, and solution, explaining the "how" and "why" in plain English.

"Calculus : a complete introduction is an accessible and easy-to-use guide, with everything you need to know here in one book. It covers all the key areas including functions, gradients, rates of change, differentiation, exponential and logarithmic functions and integration"--Back cover.

The quickest route to learning a subject is through a solid grounding in the basics. So what you won't find in Easy Pre-Calculus Step-by-Step is a lot of endless drills. Instead, you get a clear explanation that breaks down complex concepts into easy-to-understand steps, followed by highly focused exercises that are linked to core skills--enabling learners to grasp when and how to apply those techniques.

An exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's sly humor and memorably bad drawings.

This rewarding text, beautifully illustrated by the author and written with superb clarity, offers undergraduate students a solid mathematical background and functions equally well for independent study. The five-part treatment begins with geometry, defining three-dimensional Euclidean space and its axioms, the coordinate system and coordinate transformation, and matrices. A review of vector algebra covers vector properties, multiplication, the resolution...

Ideal for self-instruction as well as for classroom use, this text helps students improve their understanding and problem-solving skills in analysis, analytic geometry, and higher algebra. More than 1,200 problems appear in the text, with concise explanations of the basic notions and theorems to be used in their solution. Many are followed by complete answers; solutions for the others appear at the end of the book. Topics include sequences, functions...

El texto contiene un estudio geométrico de la curva, su extensión, ecuaciones analíticas y el trazado o construcción por puntos o de manera continua. También incluye: ecuaciones de tangentes, de normales, propiedades ópticas de la curva, y muchos otros aspectos. Además, los lectores podrán encontrar lecciones que los prepararán para adentrarse con éxito en la cinemática y la dinámica en general. This geometric study of hyperbolas examines...

Comprehensive but concise, this introduction to differential and integral calculus covers all the topics usually included in a first course. The straightforward development places less emphasis on mathematical rigor, and the informal manner of presentation sets students at ease. Many carefully worked-out examples illuminate the text, in addition to numerous diagrams, problems, and answers. Bearing the needs of beginners constantly in mind, the treatment...