Homework Helpers: Calculus

Homework Helpers: Calculus
Author: Denise Szecsei
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2006-10-01
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1601638515

The essential help you need when your calculus textbook just isn’t making the grade! Homework Helpers: Calculus is a straightforward and understandable introduction to differential calculus and its applications. It covers all of the topics in a typical calculus class, including: • Limits • Continuity • The product, quotient, and chain rules • Implicit differentiation • Related rates • Graphical analysis • Optimization This book, from a longtime teacher with a PhD in mathematics, also contains a review of the pre-calculus concepts that form the foundation on which calculus is built.

Homework Helpers: Pre-Calculus

Homework Helpers: Pre-Calculus
Author: Denise Szecsei
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2007-04-25
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1601638450

This title in the Homework Helpers series will reinforce mathematical foundations and bolster students' confidence in pre-calculus. The concepts are explained in everyday language before the examples are worked. Good habits, such as checking your answers after every problem, are reinforced. There are practice problems throughout the book, and the answers to all of the practice problems are included. The problems are solved clearly and systematically, with step-by-step instructions provided. Particular attention is placed on topics that students traditionally struggle with the most. While this book could be used to supplement a standard pre-calculus textbook, it could also be used by college students or adult learners to refresh long-forgotten concepts and skills. Homework Helpers: Pre-Calculus is a straightforward and understandable introduction to differential calculus and its applications. It covers all of the topics in a typical Calculus class, including: Linear functions Polynomials Rational functions Exponential functions Logarithmic functions Systems of equations This book also contains a review of the pre-calculus concepts that form the foundation on which calculus is built.

Homework Helpers: Geometry

Homework Helpers: Geometry
Author: Carolyn C. Wheater
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2007-04-25
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1601638477

This new title in the Homework Helpers series will reinforce mathematical foundations and bolster students' confidence in geometry. The concepts are explained in everyday language before the examples are worked. Good habits, such as checking your answers after every problem, are reinforced. There are practice problems throughout the book, and the answers to all of the practice problems are included. The problems are solved clearly and systematically, with step-by-step instructions provided. Particular attention is placed on topics that students traditionally struggle with the most. While this book could be used to supplement standard geometry textbooks, it could also be used by college students or adult learners to refresh long-forgotten concepts and skills. Homework Helpers: Geometry includes all the topics that are traditionally covered in a high school geometry course, including: Parallel lines Congruent lines Quadrilaterals and other polygons Similarity and special triangles Right triangle trigonometry Circles Area volume and solids

Homework Helpers: Calculus

Homework Helpers: Calculus
Author: Denise Szecsei
Publisher: Homework Helpers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781564149145

Homework Helpers: Calculus is a straightforward and understandable introduction to differential calculus and its applications. It covers all of the topics in a typical Calculus class, including: Limits Continuity The product, quotient and chain rules Implicit differentiation Related rates Graphical analysis Optimization This book also contains a review of the pre-calculus concepts that form the foundation on which calculus is built.

Quick Calculus

Quick Calculus
Author: Daniel Kleppner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1991-01-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0471827223

Quick Calculus 2nd Edition A Self-Teaching Guide Calculus is essential for understanding subjects ranging from physics and chemistry to economics and ecology. Nevertheless, countless students and others who need quantitative skills limit their futures by avoiding this subject like the plague. Maybe that's why the first edition of this self-teaching guide sold over 250,000 copies. Quick Calculus, Second Edition continues to teach the elementary techniques of differential and integral calculus quickly and painlessly. Your "calculus anxiety" will rapidly disappear as you work at your own pace on a series of carefully selected work problems. Each correct answer to a work problem leads to new material, while an incorrect response is followed by additional explanations and reviews. This updated edition incorporates the use of calculators and features more applications and examples. ".makes it possible for a person to delve into the mystery of calculus without being mystified." --Physics Teacher

Homework Helpers: Algebra, Revised Edition

Homework Helpers: Algebra, Revised Edition
Author: Denise Szecsei
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1601636571

Homework Helpers: Algebra is a straightforward and easy-to-read review of arithmetic skills emphasizes the role that arithmetic plays in the development of algebra covering all of the topics in a typical Algebra I class, including: Solving linear equalities and inequalities Solving systems of linear equations Factoring polynomials Graphing functions Working with rational functions Solving quadratic equations Understanding word problems Homework Helpers: Algebra will help build a solid mathematical foundation and enable students to gain the confidence they need to study Algebra II. This book also contains a summary of important formulas for easy reference.

Homework Helpers

Homework Helpers
Author: Greg Curran
Publisher: Homework Helpers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781601632098

Provides information and questions with solutions to aid readers who are taking a class in physics and find the subject hard to understand or are in need of a review.

Calculus For Dummies

Calculus For Dummies
Author: Mark Ryan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2016-05-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1119297435

Slay the calculus monster with this user-friendly guide Calculus For Dummies, 2nd Edition makes calculus manageable—even if you're one of the many students who sweat at the thought of it. By breaking down differentiation and integration into digestible concepts, this guide helps you build a stronger foundation with a solid understanding of the big ideas at work. This user-friendly math book leads you step-by-step through each concept, operation, and solution, explaining the "how" and "why" in plain English instead of math-speak. Through relevant instruction and practical examples, you'll soon learn that real-life calculus isn't nearly the monster it's made out to be. Calculus is a required course for many college majors, and for students without a strong math foundation, it can be a real barrier to graduation. Breaking that barrier down means recognizing calculus for what it is—simply a tool for studying the ways in which variables interact. It's the logical extension of the algebra, geometry, and trigonometry you've already taken, and Calculus For Dummies, 2nd Edition proves that if you can master those classes, you can tackle calculus and win. Includes foundations in algebra, trigonometry, and pre-calculus concepts Explores sequences, series, and graphing common functions Instructs you how to approximate area with integration Features things to remember, things to forget, and things you can't get away with Stop fearing calculus, and learn to embrace the challenge. With this comprehensive study guide, you'll gain the skills and confidence that make all the difference. Calculus For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides a roadmap for success, and the backup you need to get there.

Homework Helpers: Trigonometry

Homework Helpers: Trigonometry
Author: Denise Szecsei
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2006-11-01
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1601638442

The essential help you need when your trigonometry textbook just isn’t making the grade! Trigonometry includes concepts that have both a geometric and an algebraic component. Homework Helpers: Trigonometry covers all of the topics in a typical trigonometry class, including: The unit circle Trigonometric functions Inverse trigonometric functions Identities Graphical analysis Applications This book also contains a review of the algebraic and geometric ideas that are the foundation of trigonometry. Let a longtime teacher with a PhD in mathematics give you the boost you need to pass the class, prepare for an AP course, or just strengthen your skills.