Calculus: Essential Skills Practice Workbook with Full Solutions – Derivatives, Limits and Integrals 2022 Edition

Calculus: Essential Skills Practice Workbook with Full Solutions – Derivatives, Limits and Integrals 2022 Edition

This workbook has been written to provide you all the help you need to master the essential calculus skills of evaluating derivatives, limits and integrals quickly and accurately. For achieving this objective, it guides you step-by-step through the essential tool set – rules, methods and formulas – with the help of clear discussions of topics, thoroughly explained solved examples and exercises with complete solutions. In order to inculcate full student confidence, this user-friendly workbook does not shy away from clarifying even ‘simple’ calculation skills like addition of fractions, multiplication/division of exponents, use of trigonometric identities and so on.

What is inside?

• The subject matter of the workbook has been divided into twenty one chapters with each chapter dealing with a particular topicTable of Contents1 – Basic Differentiation Rules and the Derivatives of Polynomials
  2 – The Chain Rule
  3 – The Product Rule
  4 – The Quotient Rule
  5 – Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
  6 – Derivatives of Inverse Trigonometric Functions
  7 – Derivatives of Exponential Functions
  8 – Derivatives of Logarithmic Functions
  9 – Derivatives of Hyperbolic Functions
  10 – Derivatives of Implicit Functions
  11 – Second Order Derivatives
  12 – Extreme Values-Maxima and Minima
  13 – Limits and L’Hôpital’s Rule
  14 – Indefinite Integrals and Integrals of Polynomials
  15 – Definite Integrals
  16 – Integrals of Trigonometric Functions
  17 – Integrals of Exponential, Logarithmic and Hyperbolic Functions
  18 – Integration by Polynomial Substitution
  19 – Integration by Trigonometric Substitution
  20 – Integration by Parts
  21 – Multiple Integrals

• Each chapter of the workbook begins with a concise yet self-contained discussion of the topic of the chapter supplemented by formulas, identities and properties of various functions, their derivatives and anti-derivatives. This is followed by a number of examples that are solved step by step with explanation of every step.

• At the end of every chapter, a variety of practice exercises are provided to test your problem solving skills as well as your comprehension and retention of the topic.

• Full solution of every practice exercise can be found at the back of the workbook to allow you to check your answers. An effort is made to provide really detailed answers without skipping any steps.

Who this workbook is for?

• Students taking introductory calculus course in high schools, colleges and universities who can use it as a text book or a supplementary book

• Those from various fields like sciences, engineering, economics, medicine and others who wish to learn or to brush up their knowledge about derivatives and integrals, which they need to solve myriad problems in their respective fields.

• All those in home study programs, parents wanting to help their kids and other adults of all ages who wish to have a handle on differentiation, limits and integration.

About the Author

Sudhir K. Sood obtained his Ph.D. degree in fundamental particle physics. As research scientist and Professor of Physics at Universities in France, Canada and India, Dr. Sood has taught a number of courses both at introductory and advanced graduate level. He has lectured at international Physics conferences and authored numerous well-cited research papers that are published in reputed peer reviewed journals. More recently, for more than a decade, he has taught physics and mathematics to students who wish to specialize in engineering, medicine and physical science courses.