Skip to content

Brief Calculus with Applications

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0130655910

ISBN-13: 9780130655912

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: Bill Armstrong, Don Davis

List price: $126.67
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

For courses in Mathematics for Business, Finite Mathematics, and Applied Calculus. This text, modern in its writing style as well as in its applications, contains numerous exercisesboth skill oriented and applications, real data problems, and a problem solving method. Its exercises are based on data from the World Wide Web, and allow students to see for themselves how mathematics is used in everyday life.
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $126.67
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 9/25/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 784
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.498
Language: English

Before beginning his career as an author of true crime books, Don Davis worked for 30 years as a UPI correspondent on various assignments, including the Vietnam War and the White House beat. His works since have covered major crimes of the 1990s. They include Bad Blood: The Shocking True Story Behind the Menendez Killings (1994) and The Milwaukee Murders: Nightmare in Apartment 213: The True Story (1991) about the Jeffrey Dahmer case. Davis's other works include his first novel, Appointment With the Squire (1997), about World War II, and another novel, The Gris-Gris Man (1997), a story about voodoo killings in New Orleans. In addition to being a writer and reporter, Davis was an instructor…    

Functions, Modeling and Average Rate of Change
Coordinate Systems and Functions
Introduction to Problem Solving
Linear Functions and Average Rate of Change
Quadratic Functions and Average Rate of Change on an Interval
Operations on Functions
Rational, Radical and Power Functions
Exponential Functions
Logarithmic Functions
Regression and Mathematical Models (Optional Section)
Limits, Instantaneous Rate of Change and the Derivative
Limits
Limits and Asymptotes
Problem Solving: Rates of Change
The Derivative
Derivatives of Constants, Powers and Sums
Derivatives of Products and Quotients
Continuity and Nondifferentiability
Applications of the Derivative
The Differential and Linear Approximations
Marginal Analysis
Measuring Rates and Errors
Additional Differentiation Techniques
The Chain Rule
Derivatives Logarithmic Functions
Derivatives of Exponential Functions
Implicit Differentiation and Related Rates
Elasticity of Demand
Further Applications of the Derivative
First Derivatives and Graphs
Second Derivatives and Graphs
Graphical Analysis and Curve Sketching
Optimizing Functions on a Closed Interval
The Second Derivative Test and Optimization
Integral Calculus
The Indefinite Integral
Area and the Definite Integral
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Problem Solving: Integral Calculus and Total Accumulation
Integration by u-substitution
Integrals That Yield Logarithmic and Exponential Functions
Differential Equations: Separation of Variables
Differential Equations: Growth and Decay
Applications of Integral Calculus
Average Value of a Function and the Definite Integral in Finance
Area Between Curves and Applications
Economic Applications of Area between Curves
Integration by Parts
Numerical Integration
Improper Integrals
Calculus of Several Variables
Functions of Several Independent Variables
Level Curves, Contour Maps and Cross-Sectional Analysis
Partial Derivatives and Second-Order Partial Derivatives
Maxima and Minima
Lagrange Multipliers
Double Integrals
Essentials of Algebra
Calculator Programs
Selected Proofs