Mark Ryan 
Calculus Workbook For Dummies 

Your light-hearted, practical approach to conqueringcalculus

Does the thought of calculus give you a coronary? You aren’talone. Thankfully, this new edition of Calculus Workbook For Dummies makes it infinitely easier. Focusing ‘beyond theclassroom, ‘ it contains calculus exercises you can work on thatwill help to increase your confidence and improve your skills. Thishands-on, friendly guide gives you hundreds of practice problems onlimits, vectors, continuity, differentiation, integration, curve-sketching, conic sections, natural logarithms, and infiniteseries.

Calculus is a gateway and potential stumbling block for studentsinterested in pursuing a career in math, science, engineering, finance, and technology. Calculus students, along with mathstudents in nearly all disciplines, benefit greatly fromopportunities to practice different types of problems–in theclassroom and out. Calculus Workbook For Dummies takes youstep-by-step through each concept, operation, and solution, explaining the ‘how’ and ‘why’ in plain English, rather thanmath-speak. Through relevant instruction and practical examples, you’ll soon learn that real-life calculus isn’t nearly the monsterit’s made out to be.
* Master differentiation and integration
* Use the calculus microscope: limits
* Analyze common functions
* Score your highest in calculus

Complete with tips for problem-solving and traps to avoid, Calculus Workbook For Dummies is your sure-fire weapon forconquering calculus!

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Introduction 1

Part I: Pre?]Calculus Review 5

Chapter 1: Getting Down to Basics: Algebra and Geometry 7

Chapter 2: Funky Functions and Tricky Trig 25

Part II: Limits and Continuity 41

Chapter 3: A Graph Is Worth a Thousand Words: Limits and Continuity 43

Chapter 4: Nitty?]Gritty Limit Problems 53

Part III: Differentiation 79

Chapter 5: Getting the Big Picture: Differentiation Basics 81

Chapter 6: Rules, Rules, Rules: The Differentiation Handbook 91

Chapter 7: Analyzing Those Shapely Curves with the Derivative 119

Chapter 8: Using Differentiation to Solve Practical Problems 151

Chapter 9: Even More Practical Applications of Differentiation 179

Part IV: Integration and Infinite Series 197

Chapter 10: Getting into Integration 199

Chapter 11: Integration: Reverse Differentiation 219

Chapter 12: Integration Rules for Calculus Connoisseurs 235

Chapter 13: Who Needs Freud? Using the Integral to Solve Your Problems 261

Chapter 14: Infinite (Sort of) Integrals 281

Chapter 15: Infinite Series: Welcome to the Outer Limits 291

Part V: The Part of Tens 313

Chapter 16: Ten Things about Limits, Continuity, and Infinite Series 315

Chapter 17: Ten Things You Better Remember about Differentiation 319

Index 323

Sobre el autor

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 classes and tutors students in all levels of mathematics.