Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide, 2nd Edition 2nd Edition by Daniel Kleppner (PDF)

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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

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Editorial Reviews: From the Publisher A self-instructional guide for students who need additional help with calculus, or working professionals who need to brush up on the fundamentals. Uses a unique insured learning format that lets readers work at their own pace, with frequent reviews, quizzes, examples, exercises, and problems with answers. Treats the elementary techniques of differential and integral calculus with a preliminary review of algebra and trigonometry. Emphasizes technique and application. Includes many numerical exercises on the pocket calculator and microcomputer. From the Inside Flap 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 From the Back Cover 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 About the Author DANIEL KLEPPNER is Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. NORMAN RAMSEY is Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Read more

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⭐I’ve just finished reading Quick Calculus ed2. It’s a GREAT self-teaching guide by two physicists, one a Nobelist.It’s only defect is a number of errors (19) in the text.I kept a list of the errors, and I found 2 websites with similar lists.I and many others think IT’S THE VERY BEST CALCULUS SELF TEACHING GUIDE. Use the list, but DON’T LET IT KEEP YOU FROM READING THE BOOK – IT’S GREAT!Here’s the list:1. p32, frame 60, answer to tan φ question is b/a, noy a/b2. p107, frame 206, d/dx(u/v) = vu’- uv’/v^2, not uv’- vu’/v^23. p111, frame 211, reference should be to Appendix A5, not A44. p119, frame 226, reference should be to Appendix A8, not A9.5. p120, frame 228, should read “If right, go to 231.”6. pp148-9, the same constant is called D0 in box 287, D in box 288.7. p149, frame 288, t = 1/c ln cD/B should be t = -1/c ln cD/B8. p164, frame 310, 1/2 sqrt(u) should be 1/(2*sqrt(u))9. p164, frame 312, last line should be -cos 3x, not cos 3×10 p166, frame 316, solution is ln(x^2+4)+c, not ln(sqrt(x^2+4))+c11. p173, frame 330, No option listed is correct. Answer is -15.12. p186, frame 354, In the first equation, and subsequently on the page, the x has been mistakenly omited from Δx. It’s an distracting ommision when new material is being introduced.11. p187, frame 355, there should be two terms y2 in the line that has the 2Δ/6 in it;it should read (2Δx/6) (y0 + 4 y1 + y2 + y2 + 4y3 + y4 + …)12. p188, frame 357, should be I = ∫x^3dx not I = ∫x^4dxthen result is 2500, not 20,000 (1/4 x^4 over interval 0 to 10)13. p189, frame 358, using Simpson’s rule gives 2500 not 2501.3314. p202 frame 378, last equation should end with dy]dx, not dx]dy15. p206 frame 383, solution is 8/3 – 4a, not Cbaq^3/1216. p231, Appendix A8: A reference to frame 109 on p.58 would be helpful for the last line of the proof. Also, no justification is given for the next to last line, where the limit of the natural log of an expression is said to be the same as the natural log of the limit.17. p248, number 48’s hint should read Appendix B1, not B3.18. p249 should be -1/2*e^(-x^2)]19. p253 Wolfram integrator notice:”Integral doesn’t converge. Cauchy principal value = 0.”Most of these errata I found on a page on the website of Bishop O’Connell High School, about their AP physics summer course. Some are from a blog by Vinod Kurup (if you want to look at them, you’ve gotta google them because of the Amazon review regs.)And a few are from me. Let me know if there are any errata in these errata.

⭐This is just a quick note that the list of mistakes is quite helpful except for No. 7. t=1/c ln cD/B is correct and I can prove it (but not today… this mistake in the list of mistakes wasted about 2 hours of my time). They used the log rule that the log of A/B= logA-LogB. Note in the book how ln B/cD “becomes” ln cD/B. They simply added and subtracted the terms as needed to get a POSITIVE ct alone on one side of the equals sign. Then divided both sides by c to get t alone. So, t=1/c ln cD/B

⭐Excellent book for those that have take calculus before.I love this book and this is the second time I have purchased this book. I have taken calculus a long time ago and everytime I try to learn a new math I use this book to brush up on the basics.You can go from “I remember the general concepts of calculus” to I can actually do elementary calculus in less than a weekend.I love that it includes practice examples and a “chose your adventure” (albeit a very linear one) style of learning. You can read each bit and test yourself on the example to see if you _actually_ remember how to do it. If you do, move on, if not, read a more detailed explanation with some more practice.The book it written in a clear manner and I recommend it to many of my peers.I took one star off because the book contains several errors in the examples (where the providenl the wrong “solution” to an example problem).

⭐I used the first edition of this book to teach myself calculus in high school because it wasn’t offered at my school. It is so easy to use that you can go through the entire book, taking about two to three weeks to work every problem at the beginning of a summer (it requires only about a hour, maybe two per day); put it down for a month or so; then do it again before your summer ends. You will be more than ready for college calculus, or something like AP Calculus BC. I surely wouldn’t waste your high school time taking AP Calculus AB since this book covers most of it in just a few hours of effort. For me this book made the standard two-semester 18.01/18.02 calculus sequence at MIT easy. In fact, to this day I kick myself for not having signed up for MIT’s calculus with theory sequence (18.014/18.024)instead, in order to have had a little more challenge. Really, it’s the best self-study book I have ever used, and I wish every high school student in America could have a copy, to get him/herself ahead. Over twenty years later, I bought the second edition and worked through it all again just for kicks, and it was just as user friendly as I remembered the first edition being. The errors are pretty easy to spot–don’t let them dissuade you from getting this classic.

⭐I am a high school junior, have not studied precal. This book provides a strong foundation for people who haven’t learned (me) and people who lost track of the subject. It includes reviews of mandatory concepts like trig, logs, in the first chapter. The content is organized perfectly into numbered section, making it very easy to refer to other sections and keep track of your progress. What I like the most about this book is its appendix because it contains derivations, which proves to be a great way to build a strong knowledge foundation, and provides a thorough view of calculus. I recommend it for people who just finished algebra 2 because it contains no weird math language. If you can simplify expressions, you can handle this very easily.

⭐Overall, this book was intuitive. There are some sections that are poorly written or lack appropriate explanation. However, I was able to work through it with relative ease.

⭐This book was first published in 1965. This is the revised 2nd edition, but in spite of its age, the book is very current. It is a course in Analytic Geometry and Calculus, stripped of all the usual excess verbiage often found in texts. This book is very fast paced. Short exercises are given to make each point, and answers are always at the bottom of the next page. The format of each new subject is…. a short explanation, including a worked-out example, followed by a short set of “you try it now” questions, followed by worked-out answers to the questions.The book is aimed at 1st or 2nd year physics students who are not up to speed on the Calculus that they need in their physics courses. But the authors also say (and I agree) that it is excellent for those who may have forgotten Calculus from decades past, or even those who have a general interest and want to learn more without having to wade through a verbose 2 inch thick Calculus text.As stated above, this text is fast paced, and doesn’t waste time. The reader’s time is similarly not wasted…. each new subject is clearly covered, and answers to questions are always right there. No having to waste time always flipping to the back of the book for answers! This fast pace requires the reader to pay attention, but the reward is a shortened learning time.This is a very impressive textbook.

⭐For those who don’t know anything about calculus, but have a good foundation in precalculus, is a good choice. One of the best qualities of this book is its clarity. It’s impossible not understand. A nice start.

⭐Step by step at your own pace, well written.

⭐Il libro è praticamente nuovo. Perfetto.IL libro è senza dubbio datato (lo sapevo) ma è in sintesi tutto ciò di cui si ha bisogno in analisiIl tempo di arrivo un po’ lungo ma era stato preannunciato.

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⭐Recomendo a todos os estudantes de cursos de Exatas e Engenharias que nunca viram cálculo diferencial e integral.

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