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How to ace calculus : the streetwise guide /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Colin (Colin Conrad), 1956-
Other Authors: Hass, Joel, Thompson, Abigail
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.H. Freeman, [1998]
Subjects:
Calculus > Study and teaching.
Table of Contents:
  • [ch]. 1. Introduction
  • [ch]. 2. Exactly who and what is your instructor?
  • [ch]. 3. General principles of acing calculus
  • [ch]. 4. Good and bad questions
  • [ch]. 5. Are you ready? Calc prereqs
  • [ch]. 6. How to handle the exam
  • [ch]. 7. Lines, circles, and their friends
  • [ch]. 8. Limits: you gotta have them
  • [ch]. 9. Continuity, or why you shouldn't ski down discontinuous slopes
  • [ch]. 10. What is the derivative: change is good
  • [ch]. 11. Limit definition of the derivative: finding derivatives the hard way
  • [ch]. 12. Derivatives: how to find them the easy way
  • [ch]. 13. Velocity: put the pedal to the metal
  • [ch]. 14. Chain rule: S&M made easy
  • [ch]. 15. Graphing: how to doodle like an expert
  • [ch]. 16. Maxima and minima: the bread and butter section
  • [ch]. 17. Implicit differentiation: let's be oblique
  • [ch]. 18. Related rates: you change, I change
  • [ch]. 19. Differential: estimating your way to fame and glory
  • [ch]. 20. Intermediate value theorem and mean value theorem
  • [ch]. 21. Integration: doing it all backward
  • [ch]. 22. Definite integral
  • [ch]. 23. Modeling: from toy planes to the runway
  • [ch]. 24. Exponents and logarithms: a review of all that "e" hoopla
  • [ch]. 25. Doing that calc thing to exponents and logs
  • [ch]. 26. Logarithmic differentiation: making the hard stuff easy
  • [ch]. 27. Exponential growth and decay: rise and fall of slime
  • [ch]. 28. Fancy-pants techniques of integration
  • [ch]. 29. Twenty most common exam mistakes
  • [ch]. 30. What's on the final?