Applied Calculus

by Hughes-Hallett, Deborah; Gleason, Andrew M.; Lock, Patti Frazer; Flath, Daniel E.; Marks, Elliot J.

• ISBN13: 9781118714997
• ISBN10: 1118714997
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-11-11
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

An important supplemental guide for understanding applied calculus

Student Solutions Manual to accompany Applied Calculus 5th Edition offers a guide for understanding the creative and varied conceptual and modeling problems which motivate and challenge students. The 5th Edition the market leading text exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the "Rule of Four," an emphasis on concepts and modeling, exposition that students can read and understand and a flexible approach to technology. The Manual helps with an understanding of the updated data and fresh applications of 5th edition that are designed to build student confidence with basic concepts and to reinforce skills.

Author Biography

Deborah J. Hughes Hallett is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona. Her expertise is in the undergraduate teaching of mathematics. She has also taught as Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of Mathematics at Harvard University, and continues to hold an affiliation with Harvard as Adjunct Professor of Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Hughes Hallett earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1966, and a master's degree from Harvard in 1976. She worked as a preceptor and senior preceptor at Harvard from 1975 to 1991, as an instructor at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey from 1981 to 1984, and as a faculty member at Harvard from 1986 to 1998. She served as Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of Mathematics at Harvard from 1991 to 1998. She moved to Arizona in 1998, and took on her adjunct position at the Kennedy School in 2001.

Table of Contents

Functions and Change.

Rate of Change: The Derivative.

Accumulated Change: The Definite Integral.

Short-Cuts to Differentiation.

Using the Derivative.

Using the Integral.

Functions of Several Variables.

Differential Equations.

Appendix.

Answers to Odd Numbered Problems.

Index.