Introduction | p. 1 |
About This Book | p. 1 |
Conventions Used in This Book | p. 2 |
Foolish Assumptions | p. 2 |
Icons Used in This Book | p. 3 |
Where to Go from Here | p. 3 |
Calculus: No Big Deal | p. 5 |
So What Is Calculus Already? | p. 5 |
Real-World Examples of Calculus | p. 7 |
Differentiation | p. 8 |
Integration | p. 9 |
Why Calculus Works | p. 11 |
Limits: Math microscopes | p. 11 |
What happens when you zoom in | p. 12 |
Limits and Continuity | p. 15 |
Taking It to the Limit | p. 15 |
Three functions with one limit | p. 15 |
One-sided limits | p. 17 |
Limits and vertical asymptotes | p. 18 |
Limits and horizontal asymptotes | p. 19 |
Instantaneous speed | p. 19 |
Limits and Continuity | p. 22 |
The hole exception | p. 23 |
Evaluating Limits | p. 25 |
Easy Limits | p. 25 |
Limits to memorize | p. 25 |
Plug-and-chug limits | p. 26 |
"Real" Limit Problems | p. 26 |
Factoring | p. 27 |
Conjugate multiplication | p. 27 |
Miscellaneous algebra | p. 28 |
Limits at Infinity | p. 29 |
Horizontal asymptotes | p. 30 |
Solving limits at infinity | p. 31 |
Differentiation Orientation | p. 33 |
The Derivative: It's Just Slope | p. 34 |
The slope of a line | p. 35 |
The derivative of a line | p. 36 |
The Derivative: It's Just a Rate | p. 36 |
Calculus on the playground | p. 36 |
The rate-slope connection | p. 38 |
The Derivative of a Curve | p. 39 |
The Difference Quotient | p. 41 |
Average and Instantaneous Rate | p. 47 |
Three Cases Where the Derivative Does Not Exist | p. 48 |
Differentiation Rules | p. 49 |
Basic Differentiation Rules | p. 49 |
The constant rule | p. 49 |
The power rule | p. 49 |
The constant multiple rule | p. 50 |
The sum and difference rules | p. 51 |
Differentiating trig functions | p. 52 |
Exponential and logarithmic functions | p. 53 |
Derivative Rules for Experts | p. 53 |
The product and quotient rules | p. 53 |
The chain rule | p. 54 |
Differentiating Implicitly | p. 59 |
Differentiation and the Shape of Curves | p. 61 |
A Calculus Road Trip | p. 61 |
Local Extrema | p. 63 |
Finding the critical numbers | p. 63 |
The First Derivative Test | p. 65 |
The Second Derivative Test | p. 66 |
Finding Absolute Extrema on a Closed Interval | p. 69 |
Finding Absolute Extrema over a Function's Entire Domain | p. 71 |
Concavity and Inflection Points | p. 73 |
Graphs of Derivatives | p. 75 |
The Mean Value Theorem | p. 78 |
Differentiation Problems | p. 81 |
Optimization Problems | p. 81 |
The maximum area of a corral | p. 81 |
Position, Velocity, and Acceleration | p. 83 |
Velocity versus speed | p. 84 |
Maximum and minimum height | p. 86 |
Velocity and displacement | p. 87 |
Speed and distance traveled | p. 88 |
Acceleration | p. 89 |
Tying it all together | p. 90 |
Related Rates | p. 91 |
A calculus crossroads | p. 91 |
Filling up a trough | p. 94 |
Linear Approximation | p. 96 |
Introduction to Integration | p. 101 |
Integration: Just Fancy Addition | p. 101 |
Finding the Area under a Curve | p. 103 |
Dealing with negative area | p. 105 |
Approximating Area | p. 105 |
Approximating area with left sums | p. 105 |
Approximating area with right sums | p. 109 |
Approximating area with midpoint sums | p. 111 |
Summation Notation | p. 113 |
Summing up the basics | p. 113 |
Writing Riemann sums with sigma notation | p. 114 |
Finding Exact Area with the Definite Integral | p. 117 |
Integration: Backwards Differentiation | p. 119 |
Antidifferentiation: Reverse Differentiation | p. 119 |
The Annoying Area Function | p. 121 |
The Fundamental Theorem | p. 124 |
Fundamental Theorem: Take Two | p. 126 |
Antiderivatives: Basic Techniques | p. 128 |
Reverse rules | p. 128 |
Guess and check | p. 131 |
Substitution | p. 132 |
Integration for Experts | p. 137 |
Integration by Parts | p. 137 |
Picking your u | p. 139 |
Tricky Trig Integrals | p. 141 |
Sines and cosines | p. 142 |
Secants and tangents | p. 144 |
Cosecants and cotangents | p. 147 |
Trigonometric Substitution | p. 147 |
Tangents | p. 148 |
Sines | p. 150 |
Secants | p. 152 |
Partial Fractions | p. 152 |
The denominator contains only linear factors | p. 152 |
The denominator contains unfactorable quadratic factors | p. 153 |
The denominator contains repeated factors | p. 155 |
Equating coefficients | p. 156 |
Using the Integral to Solve Problems | p. 157 |
The Mean Value Theorem for Integrals and Average Value | p. 158 |
The Area between Two Curves | p. 160 |
Volumes of Weird Solids | p. 162 |
The meat-slicer method | p. 162 |
The disk method | p. 164 |
The washer method | p. 166 |
The matryoshka doll method | p. 168 |
Arc Length | p. 170 |
Improper Integrals | p. 172 |
Improper integrals with vertical asymptotes | p. 173 |
Improper integrals with infinite limits of integration | p. 175 |
Eight Things to Remember | p. 177 |
a2 - b2 = (a - b)(a + b) | p. 177 |
0/5 = 0 But 5/0 Is Undefined | p. 177 |
SohCahToa | p. 177 |
Trig Values to Know | p. 178 |
sin2 ¿ + cos2 ¿ = 1 | p. 178 |
The Product Rule | p. 178 |
The Quotient Rule | p. 178 |
Your Sunglasses | p. 178 |
Index | p. 179 |
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