Understanding Calculus: Problems, Solutions, and Tips

Calculus is one of the most powerful and astonishing tools ever invented, yet it is a skill that can be learned by anyone with an understanding of high school mathematics. These 36 half-hour lectures cover all the major topics of a full-year calculus course. With crystal-clear explanations, frequent study tips, pitfalls to avoid, and hundreds of examples and practice problems, this course will be your sure and steady guide to conquering this subject. Your teacher is Professor Bruce Edwards, an award-winning instructor at the University of Florida and the coauthor of a best-selling series of calculus textbooks. He is the ideal teacher - friendly, animated, encouraging, and witty, but also focused on presenting the material in an organized and understandable way. The plentiful graphs, equations, and other visual aids allow you to follow each step of Professor Edwards's presentation in detail and the accompanying workbook includes lecture summaries, sample problems and worked-out solutions, tips, and pitfalls; lists of formulas and theorems; a trigonometry review sheet; a glossary; and a removable study sheet. Through Professor Edwards's exceptional teaching, you will come away with a deep appreciation for the extraordinary power of calculus, a grasp of which methods apply to different types of problems, and, with practice, a facility for unlocking the secrets of the ceaselessly changing world around us.