Doing Calculus with Scientific Notebook

Take the mystery out of doing calculus--learn to solve problems with confidence. Problem solving doesn't have to be puzzling. This text provides activities to work with the Scientific Notebook software that will help you develop a clearer understanding of calculus.

Think of Scientific Notebook as a laboratory for mathematical experimentation and this book as your lab manual of experiments to perform. Because Scientific Notebook serves as a tool to help you do the math easily, it frees you to explore the activities in this book and learn the logic used in solving each problem.

Scientific Notebook streamlines the process of solving problems, verifying answers, and communicating the results, by combining the computational power of a computer algebra system with the capabilities of a scientific word processor. With a simple click of the mouse, you can tell the program to solve an equation or graph an expression. Scientific Notebook does the math right inside your document and there is no special syntax to learn--Scientific Notebook understands standard mathematical notation.

The activities in this text are designed to exploit Scientific Notebook's timesaving features while helping you gain a better understanding of topics such as derivatives, inverse functions, integrals, volume, and sequences. Wherever possible, the activities draw on real-life applications to demonstrate how mathematical concepts can be used to solve everyday problems.

Solutions, with hints for using Scientific Notebook, are provided for each introductory activity to offer a model for doing the other activities in each section.