Description Thomas’ Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Thirteenth Edition, introduces students to the intrinsic beauty of calculus and the power of its applications. For more than half a century, this text has been revered for its clear and precise explanations, thoughtfully chosen examples, superior figures, and time-tested exercise sets. With this new edition, the exercises were refined, updated, and expanded–always with the goal of developing technical competence while furthering students’ appreciation of the subject. Co-authors Hass and Weir have made it their passion to improve the text in keeping with the shifts in both the preparation and ambitions of today's students.
Features
Strong exercise sets feature a great breadth of problems–progressing from skills problems to applied and theoretical problems–to encourage students to think about and practice the concepts until they achieve mastery.
Figures are conceived and rendered to provide insight for students and support conceptual reasoning.
The flexible table of contents divides topics into manageable sections, allowing instructors to tailor their course to meet the specific needs of their students.
Complete and precise multivariable coverage enhances the connections of multivariable ideas with their single-variable analogues studied earlier in the book.
A robust MyMathLab course contains nearly 9,000 assignable exercises, a complete eBook, and built-in tutorials so students can get help whenever they need it.
A complete suite of instructor and student supplements saves class preparation time for instructors and improves students’ learning.
New To This Edition
Two new sections:
Section 8.1 reviews basic integration formulas and the Substitution Rules combined with algebraic methods and trigonometric identities
Section 8.10 on probability as an application of improper integrals to making predictions for probabilistic models, with a wide range of applications in business and sciences
Presentation of absolute convergence before considering the Ratio and Root Tests for convergence of a series, which allows the tests to be stated in their stronger forms (Theorems 13 and 14, Section 10.5)
MyMathLab now has hundreds of additional assignable exercises, including 670 that address prerequisite skills, giving you the selection you need to create the right homework assignments and assessments.
Updated and new art, and additional tables, supporting examples and exercises throughout
Material has been rewritten or enhanced, for greater clarity or improved motivation. Here are some examples:
Definition of continuous at x = c
Geometric insight into L’Hôpital’s Rule
Discussion of cycloid curve
Introduction to differentiability for functions of several variables
Chain Rule for paths
Most chapter introductory overviews
A variety of new examples throughout, including:
Predicting the rise in college tuition costs
Predicting the decline in tuberculosis death rates
Minimizing production costs
Integration by parts
Log formula for the inverse hyperbolic sine function
Using the Integral Test
Finding the perimeter of an ellipse
Testing multivariable critical points in an exponential function
Updated and new exercises, including:
Using regression analysis to predict Federal minimum wage, median home and energy prices, and global warming
More limits involving rational functions
Interpreting derivatives from graphs
Growth in the Gross National Product
Vehicular stopping distance
Spread of an oil spill in gulf waters
Estimating concentration of a drug
Considering endangered species
Prescribing drug dosage
Summing infinitely many areas
Representing functions by a geometric series
Unusual polar graphs
Finding the distance between skew lines in space
Finding mass and distances in our solar system
Table of Contents
1 Functions
2 Limits and Continuity
3 Derivatives
4 Applications of Derivatives
5 Integrals
6 Applications of Definite Integrals
7 Integrals and Transcendental Functions
8 Techniques of Integration
9 First-Order Differential Equations
10 Infinite Sequences and Series
11 Parametric Equations and Polar Coordinates
12 Vectors and the Geometry of Space
13 Vector-Valued Functions and Motion in Space
14 Partial Derivatives
15 Multiple Integrals
16 Integrals and Vector Fields
17 Second-Order Differential Equations online
Appendices
A.1 Real Numbers and the Real Line
A.2 Mathematical Induction
A.3 Lines, Circles, and Parabolas
A.4 Proofs of Limit Theorems
A.5 Commonly Occurring Limits
A.6 Theory of the Real Numbers
A.7 Complex Numbers
A.8 The Distributive Law for Vector Cross Products
A.9 The Mixed Derivative Theorem and the Increment Theorem
George B. Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Maurice D. Weir Joel R. Hass, University of California, Davis