Worldwide Single-Variable Calculus for AP® Calculus

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David B. Massey– Northeastern University

ISBN-10: 0-9842071-6-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9842071-6-9
680 Pages
©2019 Worldwide Center of Mathematics, LLC

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Introduction

"Worldwide Single-Variable Calculus" takes, what has become, a non-standard approach in the topics covered and their ordering. The textbook does not try to “teach to the test.” An Advanced Placement course is designed to provide students with the necessary background and skills for advanced placement into their respective college curricula. Too often, modern AP Calculus textbooks have one goal: to optimize students' grades on the AP Calculus exam, regardless of how well the students may end up being prepared to be placed at advanced points in college curricula.

Thus, the content in "Worldwide Single-Variable Calculus" is the same material that students would see when using a Calculus textbook in a college or university; so that, while they will be prepared for the AP exam at the end of the course, they will also have the knowledge they need to move on to higher-level math courses when they enter college. The book is a combination of Massey’s Worldwide Differential Calculus and Worldwide Integral Calculus for easier use in the AP Calculus classroom setting. This textbook can be used in both an AB and a BC course, and also allows students who are continuing on to AP Calculus BC, after completing AB, to need only one textbook for both courses.

The chatty exposition throughout "Worldwide Single-Variable Calculus" is meant to make the textbook more readable for students. However, despite the informal style in the discussions, the mathematics in "Worldwide Single-Variable Calculus" is completely rigorous. The precise, rigorous statements of definitions, theorems, and proofs are intended to eliminate the confusion caused by the ambiguity and imprecision of many current AP Calculus textbooks. While we do not expect students to be held accountable on tests for so many technicalities, we feel that it is an important aspect of any mathematics course for the students to understand that the mathematically rigorous statements and results actually exist; furthermore, "Worldwide Single-Variable Calculus" provides a resource for those students and teachers who are interested in a deeper, more careful, study of Calculus, beyond what will be tested.

Digital resources also set this book apart from the alternatives. At the beginning of each section, there is a full-length lecture video by the author, which provides additional help to students, while also allowing students to keep up with the course if they miss a class. In addition, there are 5-10 selected exercise video-solutions at the end of each section, for students to watch if they have trouble on homework problems. All of these resources are linked to in the .pdf version of the book, but are also available on our YouTube channel for fast and reliable viewing.


Features

  • Written by an award-winning mathematics professor with 30 years of teaching experience
  • Down-to-Earth exposition, presented as it would be spoken in class
  • Completely rigorous definitions, statements of theorems, and proofs
  • Technical proofs at the end of each chapter, to avoid disrupting the exposition
  • Margin side-remarks and historical references
  • Hyperlinked table of contents, index, and cross-references
  • Embedded video links to full-length lectures
  • Video-solutions to select exercises
  • PDF format, compatible with all computers, tablets, and mobile devices
  • Low cost in electronic or print form

Contents

  • 1.1 Statistics and Data
  • 1.1 Average Rates of Change
  • 1.1.1 Exercises
  • 1.2 Prelude to IROC's
  • 1.2.1 Exercises
  • 1.3 Limits and Continuity
  • 1.3.1 Limits
  • 1.3.2 Continuous Functions
  • 1.3.3 Limits involving Infinity
  • 1.3.4 Exercises
  • 1.4 IROC's and the Derivative
  • 1.4.1 Exercises
  • 1.5 Extrema and the Mean Value Theorem
  • 1.5.1 Exercises
  • 1.6 Higher-Order Derivatives
  • 1.6.1 Exercises
  • 2.1 The Power Rule and Linearity
  • 2.1.1 Exercises
  • 2.2 The Product and Quotient Rules
  • 2.2.1 Exercises
  • 2.3 The Chain Rule and Inverse Functions
  • 2.3.1 Exercises
  • 2.4 The Exponential Function
  • 2.4.1 Exercises
  • 2.5 The Natural Logarithm
  • 2.5.1 Exercises
  • 2.6 General Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
  • 2.6.1 Exercises
  • 2.7 Trigonometric Functions: Sine and Cosine
  • 2.7.1 Exercises
  • 2.8 The Other Trigonometric Functions
  • 2.8.1 Exercises
  • 2.9 Inverse Trig Functions
  • 2.9.1 Exercises
  • 2.10 Implicit Functions
  • 2.10.1 Exercises
  • 3.1 Related Rates
  • 3.1.1 Exercises
  • 3.2 Graphing
  • 3.2.1 Exercises
  • 3.3 Optimization
  • 3.3.1 Exercises
  • 3.4 Linear Approximation
  • 3.4.1 Exercises
  • 3.5 l'Hôpital's Rule
  • 3.5.1 Exercises
  • 4.1 Basic Anti-Differentiation
  • 4.1.1 Exercises
  • 4.2 Integration by Partial Fractions
  • 4.2.1 Exercises
  • 4.3 What is a Differential Equation?
  • 4.3.1 Exercises
  • 4.4 Separable Differential Equations
  • 4.4.1 Exercises
  • 4.5 Approximating Solutions
  • 4.5.1 Exercises
  • 5.1 Sums and Differences
  • 5.1.1 Exercises
  • 5.2 Prelude to the Definite Integral
  • 5.2.1 Exercises
  • 5.3 The Definite Integral
  • 5.3.1 Exercises
  • 5.4 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  • 5.4.1 Exercises
  • 5.5 Improper Integrals
  • 5.5.1 Exercises
  • 5.6 Numerical Techniques
  • 5.6.1 Exercises
  • 6.1 Displacement and Distance Traveled
  • 6.1.1 Exercises
  • 6.2 Area in the Plane
  • 6.2.1 Exercises
  • 6.3 Distance Traveled in Space and Arc Length
  • 6.3.1 Exercises
  • 6.4 Area Swept Out and Polar Coordinates
  • 6.4.1 Exercises
  • 6.5 Volume
  • 6.5.1 Exercises
  • 6.6 Surface Area
  • 6.6.1 Exercises
  • 6.7 Mass and Density
  • 6.7.1 Exercises
  • 7.1 Approximating Polynomials
  • 7.1.1 Exercises
  • 7.2 Approximation of Functions
  • 7.2.1 Exercises
  • 7.3 Error in Approximation
  • 7.3.1 Exercises
  • 7.4 Functions as Power Series
  • 7.4.1 Exercises
  • 7.5 Power Series as Functions I
  • 7.5.1 Exercises
  • 7.6 Power Series as Functions II
  • 7.6.1 Exercises
  • 8.1 Theorems on Sequences
  • 8.1.1 Exercises
  • 8.2 Basic Theorems on Series
  • 8.2.1 Exercises
  • 8.3 Non-negative Series
  • 8.3.1 Exercises
  • 8.4 Series with Positive and Negative Terms
  • 8.4.1 Exercises

 

 

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