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Calculus Workbook For Dummies with Online Practice

by Mark Ryan

Published 1 January 2005

The easy way to conquer calculus

Calculus is hard-no doubt about it-and students often need help understanding or retaining the key concepts covered in class. Calculus Workbook For Dummies serves up the concept review and practice problems with an easy-to-follow, practical approach. Plus, you'll get free access to a quiz for every chapter online.

With a wide variety of problems on everything covered in calculus class, you'll find multiple examples of limits, vectors, continuity, differentiation, integration, curve-sketching, conic sections, natural logarithms, and infinite series. Plus, you'll get hundreds of practice opportunities with detailed solutions that will help you master the math that is critical for scoring your highest in calculus.

Review key concepts
Take hundreds of practice problems
Get access to free chapter quizzes online
Use as a classroom supplement or with a tutor

Get ready to quickly and easily increase your confidence and improve your skills in calculus.

Calculus for Dummies

by Mark Ryan

Published 9 September 2003

The mere thought of having to take a required calculus course is enough to make legions of students break out in a cold sweat. Others who have no intention of ever studying the subject have this notion that calculus is impossibly difficult unless you happen to be a direct descendant of Einstein. Well, the good news is that you can master calculus. It's not nearly as tough as its mystique would lead you to think. Much of calculus is really just very advanced algebra, geometry, and trig. It builds upon and is a logical extension of those subjects. If you can do algebra, geometry, and trig, you can do calculus. Calculus For Dummies is intended for three groups of readers: Students taking their first calculus course -- If you're enrolled in a calculus course and you find your textbook less than crystal clear, this is the book for you. It covers the most important topics in the first year of calculus: differentiation, integration, and infinite series.
Students who need to brush up on their calculus to prepare for other studies -- If you've had elementary calculus, but it's been a couple of years and you want to review the concepts to prepare for, say, some graduate program, Calculus For Dummies will give you a thorough, no-nonsense refresher course. Adults of all ages who'd like a good introduction to the subject -- Non-student readers will find the book's exposition clear and accessible. Calculus For Dummies takes calculus out of the ivory tower and brings it down to earth. This is a user-friendly math book. Whenever possible, the author explains the calculus concepts by showing you connections between the calculus ideas and easier ideas from algebra and geometry. Then, you'll see how the calculus concepts work in concrete examples. All explanations are in plain English, not math-speak.
Calculus For Dummies covers the following topics and more: * Real-world examples of calculus * The two big ideas of calculus: differentiation and integration * Why calculus works * Pre-algebra and algebra review * Common functions and their graphs * Limits and continuity * Integration and approximating area * Sequences and series Don't buy the misconception. Sure calculus is difficult -- but it's manageable, doable. You made it through algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Well, calculus just picks up where they leave off -- it's simply the next step in a logical progression.

Geometry For Dummies

by Mark Ryan

Published 4 January 2008

Learning geometry doesn't have to hurt. With a little bit of friendly guidance, it can even be fun! Geometry For Dummies, 2nd Edition, helps you make friends with lines, angles, theorems and postulates. It eases you into all the principles and formulas you need to analyze two- and three-dimensional shapes, and it gives you the skills and strategies you need to write geometry proofs. Before you know it, you'll be devouring proofs with relish. You'll find out how a proof's chain of logic works and discover some basic secrets for getting past rough spots. Soon, you'll be proving triangles congruent, calculating circumferences, using formulas, and serving up pi. The non-proof parts of the book contain helpful formulas and tips that you can use anytime you need to shape up your knowledge of shapes. You'll even get a feel for why geometry continues to draw people to careers in art, engineering, carpentry, robotics, physics, and computer animation, among others.You'll discover how to:* Identify lines, angles, and planes* Measure segments and angles* Calculate the area of a triangle* Use tips and strategies to make proofs easier* Figure the volume and surface area of a pyramid* Bisect angles and construct perpendicular lines* Work with 3-D shapes* Work with figures in the x-y coordinate system So quit scratching your head.
Geometry For Dummies, 2nd Edition, gets you un-stumped in a hurry.