Calculus and Its Applications

This is the best-selling applied calculus text for the 4 year marketplace. More rigorous than Barnett, Goldstein/Lay/Schneider still provides an accessible text to students and instructor's alike. Integrating more usage of Excel and Optional Graphing calculator examples and exercises, this revision is sure to bring this classic to the classroom in an up-to-date approach. A full website with Excel sownloadable projects/tutuorials accompanies the text.

Key Benefit: Present innovative ways for applying calculus to real-world situations in the business, economics, life science, and social science disciplines. Key Topics: Pairs substantial amounts of graphical analysis and informal geometric proofs with an abundance of hands-on exercises. Coverage includes the derivative and its applications; techniques of differentiation; the exponential and natural logarithm functions; applications of the exponential and natural logarithm; functions; the definite integral; functions of several variables; the trigonometric functions; techniques of integration; differential equations; taylor polynomials and infinite series; and probability and calculus.