Calculus Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Your light-hearted, practical approach to conquering calculus

Does the thought of calculus give you a coronary? You aren’t alone. Thankfully, this new edition of Calculus Workbook For Dummies makes it infinitely easier. Focusing “beyond the classroom,” it contains calculus exercises you can work on that will help to increase your confidence and improve your skills. This hands-on, friendly guide gives you hundreds of practice problems on limits, vectors, continuity, differentiation, integration, curve-sketching, conic sections, natural logarithms, and infinite series.

Calculus is a gateway and potential stumbling block for students interested in pursuing a career in math, science, engineering, finance, and technology. Calculus students, along with math students in nearly all disciplines, benefit greatly from opportunities to practice different types of problems—in the classroom and out. Calculus Workbook For Dummies takes you step-by-step through each concept, operation, and solution, explaining the “how” and “why” in plain English, rather than math-speak. Through relevant instruction and practical examples, you’ll soon learn that real-life calculus isn’t nearly the monster it’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 for conquering calculus!

Table of Contents

Part I: Pre-Calculus Review
Chapter 1: Getting Down to Basics: Algebra and Geometry
Chapter 2: Funky Functions and Tricky Trig

Part II: Limits and Continuity
Chapter 3: A Graph Is Worth a Thousand Words: Limits and Continuity
Chapter 4: Nitty-Gritty Limit Problems

Part III: Differentiation
Chapter 5: Getting the Big Picture: Differentiation Basics
Chapter 6: Rules, Rules, Rules: The Differentiation Handbook
Chapter 7: Analyzing Those Shapely Curves with the Derivative
Chapter 8: Using Differentiation to Solve Practical Problems
Chapter 9: Even More Practical Applications of Differentiation

Part IV: Integration and Infinite Series
Chapter 10: Getting into Integration
Chapter 11: Integration: Reverse Differentiation
Chapter 12: Integration Rules for Calculus Connoisseurs
Chapter 13: Who Needs Freud? Using the Integral to Solve Your Problems
Chapter 14: Infinite (Sort of) Integrals
Chapter 15: Infinite Series: Welcome to the Outer Limits

Part V: The Part of Tens
Chapter 16: Ten Things about Limits, Continuity, and Infinite Series
Chapter 17: Ten Things You Better Remember about Differentiation