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Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Expanded Edition provides a sound, intuitive understanding of the basic concepts students need as they pursue careers in business, economics, and the life and social sciences. Students achieve success using this text as a result of the author's applied and real-world orientation to concepts, problem-solving approach, straight forward and concise writing style, and comprehensive exercise sets. More than 100,000 students worldwide have studied from this text!
Contents
Chapter 1: Functions, Graphs, and Limits1.1 Functions1.2 The Graph of a Function1.3 Linear Functions1.4 Functional Models1.5 Limits1.6 One-Sided Limits and ContinuityChapter 2: Differentiation: Basic Concepts2.1 The Derivative2.2 Techniques of Differentiation2.3 Product and Quotient Rules; Higher-Order Derivatives2.4 The Chain Rule2.5 Marginal Analysis and Approximations Using Increments2.6 Implicit Differentiation and Related RatesChapter 3: Additional Applications of the Derivative3.1 Increasing and Decreasing Functions; Relative Extrema3.2 Concavity and Points of Inflection3.3 Curve Sketching3.4 Optimization; Elasticity of Demand3.5 Additional Applied OptimizationChapter 4: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions4.1 Exponential Functions; Continuous Compounding4.2 Logarithmic Functions4.3 Differentiation of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions4.4 Applications; Exponential ModelsChapter 5: Integration5.1 Indefinite Integration with Applications5.2 Integration by Substitution5.3 The Definite Integral and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus5.4 Applying Definite Integration: Area Between Curves and Average Value5.5 Additional Applications to Business and Economics5.6 Additional Applications to the Life and Social SciencesChapter 6: Additional Topics in Integration6.1 Integration by Parts; Integral Tables6.2 Numerical Integration6.3 Improper IntegralsChapter 7: Calculus of Several Variables7.1 Functions of Several Variables7.2 Partial Derivatives7.3 Optimizing Functions of Two Variables7.4 The Method of Least-Squares7.5 Constrained Optimization: The Method of Lagrange Multipliers7.6 Double IntegralsChapter 8: Trigonometric Functions8.1 Angle Measurement; Trigonometric Functions8.2 Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions8.3 Integrals of Trigonometric FunctionsChapter 9: Differential Equations9.1 Introduction to Differential Equations9.2 First-Order Linear Differential Equations9.3 Additional Applications of Differential Equations9.4 Approximate Solutions of Differential Equations9.5 Difference Equations; The Cobweb ModelChapter 10: Probability and Calculus10.1 Continuous Probability Distributions10.2 Expected Value and Variance10.3 Normal DistributionsChapter 11: Infinite Series and Taylor Series Approximations11.1 Infinite Series; Geometric Series11.2 Tests for Convergence11.3 Functions as Power Series; Taylor SeriesAppendix A: Algebra ReviewA.1 A Brief Review of AlgebraA.2 Factoring Polynomials and Solving Systems of EquationsA.3 Evaluating Limits with L'Hopital's RuleA.4 The Summation Notation
