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How to ace calculus :

by Adams, Colin Conrad. frey50
Additional authors: Hass, Joel. | Thompson, Abigail.
Published by : W.H. Freeman & Co., (New York :) , 1998 Physical details: x, 230, xii p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN:0716731606; 9780716731603; 0716732874 (textbook); 9780716732877 (textbook).
Subject(s): Calculus -- Study and teaching.
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Includes index.

Exactly who and what is your instructor? -- General principles of acing calculus -- Good and bad questions -- Are you ready? Calc prereqs -- How to handle the exam -- Lines, circles, and their friends -- Limits : you gotta have them -- Continuity, or why you shouldn't ski down discontinuous slopes -- What is the derivative? : Change is good -- Limit definition of the derivative : finding derivatives the hard way -- Derivatives : how to find them the easy way -- Velocity : put the pedal to the metal -- Chain rule : S&M made easy -- Graphing : how to doodle like an expert -- Maxima and minima : the bread and butter section -- Implicit differentiation : let's be oblique -- Related rates : you change, I change -- Differential : estimating your way to fame and glory -- Intermediate value theorem and mean value theorem -- Integration : doing it all backward -- The definite integral -- Modeling : from toy planes to the runway -- Exponents and logarithms : a review of all that "e" hoopla -- Doing that calc thing to exponents and logs -- Logarithmic differentiation : making the hard stuff easy -- Exponential growth and decay : rise and fall of slime -- Fancy-pants techniques of integration -- Twenty most common exam mistakes -- What's on the final?