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University Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (January 1, 2019) © 2020

  • Joel R. Hass University of California, Davis
  • Christopher E. Heil Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Maurice D. Weir Naval Postgraduate School
  • Przemyslaw Bogacki Old Dominion University
  • George B. Thomas Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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For 3-semester or 4-quarter courses covering single-variable and multivariable calculus, taken by students of mathematics, engineering, natural sciences or economics.

Clear, precise, concise

University Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 4th Edition helps students generalize and apply the key ideas of calculus through clear explanations, careful examples, meticulously crafted figures and superior exercise sets. It offers the right mix of basic, conceptual and challenging exercises plus meaningful applications. New co-authors Chris Heil and Przemyslaw Bogacki partner with Joel Hass to preserve the text's time-tested features while revisiting every word, figure and question with today's students in mind. 

Hallmark features of this title

  • Key topics are presented both formally and informally, and the distinction between the two is clearly stated as each is developed.
  • Results are both carefully stated and proved throughout the book, and proofs are clearly explained and motivated.
  • Writing exercises throughout ask students to explore and explain a variety of calculus concepts and applications. 
  • Technology exercises in each section require students to use a graphing calculator or computer.
  • Each major topic is developed with both simple and more advanced examples to give basic ideas and illustrate deeper concepts.
  • End-of-chapter materials include review questions, practice exercises, and a series of Additional and Advanced Exercises with more challenging or synthesizing problems.

New and updated features of this title

  • New co-author Chris Heil and co-author Joel Hass aim to develop students' mathematical maturity and proficiency by going beyond memorization of formulas and routine procedures and showing how to generalize key concepts once they are introduced.
  • PowerPoint®  lecture slides now include examples as well as key theorems, definitions, and figures. The files are fully editable making them a robust and flexible teaching tool.
  • 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. In the 4th Edition, the authors added new exercises and exercise types throughout, many of which are geometric in nature.
  • Figures are conceived and rendered to provide insight for students and support conceptual reasoning. In the 4th Edition, new figures are added to enhance understanding and graphics are revised throughout to emphasize clear visualization.
  • Annotations within examples (shown in blue type) guide students through the problem solution and emphasize that each step in a mathematical argument is rigorously justified. For the 4th Edition, many more annotations were added.

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  • Assignable Exercises: New co-author Przemyslaw Bogacki analyzed aggregated student usage and performance data from the previous edition to inform this revision. There are approximately 8550 assignable exercises in MyLab Math, 490 of which are new to this edition.
  • Additional Setup & Solve Exercises require students to show how they set up a problem as well as the solution, better mirroring what is required on tests. Each is also now available as a regular question where just the final answer is scored.
  • Additional Conceptual Questions focus on deeper, theoretical understanding of the key concepts in calculus and are also assignable through Learning Catalytics.
  • A full suite of Interactive Figures, editable using GeoGebra, has been added to support teaching and learning. They can be used in lecture or independently by students.
  • Over 200 instructional videos support the overall approach of the text by going beyond routine procedures to show students how to generalize and connect key concepts. The Guide to Video-Based Assignments makes it easy to assign videos for homework.
  • Enhanced Sample Assignments include just-in-time prerequisite review, help keep skills fresh with spaced practice of key concepts and provide opportunities to work exercises without learning aids.
  1. Functions
    • 1.1 Functions and Their Graphs
    • 1.2 Combining Functions; Shifting and Scaling Graphs
    • 1.3 Trigonometric Functions
    • 1.4 Graphing with Software
    • 1.5 Exponential Functions
    • 1.6 Inverse Functions and Logarithms
  2. Limits and Continuity
    • 2.1 Rates of Change and Tangent Lines to Curves
    • 2.2 Limit of a Function and Limit Laws
    • 2.3 The Precise Definition of a Limit
    • 2.4 One-Sided Limits
    • 2.5 Continuity
    • 2.6 Limits Involving Infinity; Asymptotes of Graphs
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  3. Derivatives
    • 3.1 Tangent Lines and the Derivative at a Point
    • 3.2 The Derivative as a Function
    • 3.3 Differentiation Rules
    • 3.4 The Derivative as a Rate of Change
    • 3.5 Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
    • 3.6 The Chain Rule
    • 3.7 Implicit Differentiation
    • 3.8 Derivatives of Inverse Functions and Logarithms
    • 3.9 Inverse Trigonometric Functions
    • 3.10 Related Rates
    • 3.11 Linearization and Differentials
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  4. Applications of Derivatives
    • 4.1 Extreme Values of Functions on Closed Intervals
    • 4.2 The Mean Value Theorem
    • 4.3 Monotonic Functions and the First Derivative Test
    • 4.4 Concavity and Curve Sketching
    • 4.5 Indeterminate Forms and L’Hôpital’s Rule
    • 4.6 Applied Optimization
    • 4.7 Newton’s Method
    • 4.8 Antiderivatives
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  5. Integrals
    • 5.1 Area and Estimating with Finite Sums
    • 5.2 Sigma Notation and Limits of Finite Sums
    • 5.3 The Definite Integral
    • 5.4 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
    • 5.5 Indefinite Integrals and the Substitution Method
    • 5.6 Definite Integral Substitutions and the Area Between Curves
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  6. Applications of Definite Integrals
    • 6.1 Volumes Using Cross-Sections
    • 6.2 Volumes Using Cylindrical Shells
    • 6.3 Arc Length
    • 6.4 Areas of Surfaces of Revolution
    • 6.5 Work
    • 6.6 Moments and Centers of Mass
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  7. Integrals and Transcendental Functions
    • 7.1 The Logarithm Defined as an Integral
    • 7.2 Exponential Change and Separable Differential Equations
    • 7.3 Hyperbolic Functions
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  8. Techniques of Integration
    • 8.1 Integration by Parts
    • 8.2 Trigonometric Integrals
    • 8.3 Trigonometric Substitutions
    • 8.4 Integration of Rational Functions by Partial Fractions
    • 8.5 Integral Tables and Computer Algebra Systems
    • 8.6 Numerical Integration
    • 8.7 Improper Integrals
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  9. Infinite Sequences and Series
    • 9.1 Sequences
    • 9.2 Infinite Series
    • 9.3 The Integral Test
    • 9.4 Comparison Tests
    • 9.5 Absolute Convergence; The Ratio and Root Tests
    • 9.6 Alternating Series and Conditional Convergence
    • 9.7 Power Series
    • 9.8 Taylor and Maclaurin Series
    • 9.9 Convergence of Taylor Series
    • 9.10 Applications of Taylor Series
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  10. Parametric Equations and Polar Coordinates
    • 10.1 Parametrizations of Plane Curves
    • 10.2 Calculus with Parametric Curves
    • 10.3 Polar Coordinates
    • 10.4 Graphing Polar Coordinate Equations
    • 10.5 Areas and Lengths in Polar Coordinates
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  11. Vectors and the Geometry of Space
    • 11.1 Three-Dimensional Coordinate Systems
    • 11.2 Vectors
    • 11.3 The Dot Product
    • 11.4 The Cross Product
    • 11.5 Lines and Planes in Space
    • 11.6 Cylinders and Quadric Surfaces
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  12. Vector-Valued Functions and Motion in Space
    • 12.1 Curves in Space and Their Tangents
    • 12.2 Integrals of Vector Functions; Projectile Motion
    • 12.3 Arc Length in Space
    • 12.4 Curvature and Normal Vectors of a Curve
    • 12.5 Tangential and Normal Components of Acceleration
    • 12.6 Velocity and Acceleration in Polar Coordinates
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  13. Partial Derivatives
    • 13.1 Functions of Several Variables
    • 13.2 Limits and Continuity in Higher Dimensions
    • 13.3 Partial Derivatives
    • 13.4 The Chain Rule
    • 13.5 Directional Derivatives and Gradient Vectors
    • 13.6 Tangent Planes and Differentials
    • 13.7 Extreme Values and Saddle Points
    • 13.8 Lagrange Multiplier
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  14. Multiple Integrals
    • 14.1 Double and Iterated Integrals over Rectangles
    • 14.2 Double Integrals over General Regions
    • 14.3 Area by Double Integration
    • 14.4 Double Integrals in Polar Form
    • 14.5 Triple Integrals in Rectangular Coordinates
    • 14.6 Applications
    • 14.7 Triple Integrals in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates
    • 14.8 Substitutions in Multiple Integrals
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  15. Integrals and Vector Fields
    • 15.1 Line Integrals of Scalar Functions
    • 15.2 Vector Fields and Line Integrals: Work, Circulation, and Flux
    • 15.3 Path Independence, Conservative Fields, and Potential Functions
    • 15.4 Green’s Theorem in the Plane
    • 15.5 Surfaces and Area
    • 15.6 Surface Integrals
    • 15.7 Stokes’ Theorem
    • 15.8 The Divergence Theorem and a Unified Theory
    • Questions to Guide Your Review
    • Practice Exercises
    • Additional and Advanced Exercises
  16. First-Order Differential Equations (online at bit.ly/2pzYlEq)
    • 16.1 Solutions, Slope Fields, and Euler’s Method
    • 16.2 First-Order Linear Equations
    • 16.3 Applications
    • 16.4 Graphical Solutions of Autonomous Equations
    • 16.5 Systems of Equations and Phase Planes
  17. Second-Order Differential Equations (online at bit.ly/2IHCJyE)
    • 17.1 Second-Order Linear Equations
    • 17.2 Non-homogeneous Linear Equations
    • 17.3 Applications
    • 17.4 Euler Equations
    • 17.5 Power-Series Solutions

Appendix

  • A.1 Real Numbers and the Real Line
  • A.2 Mathematical Induction
  • A.3 Lines and Circles
  • A.4 Conic Sections
  • A.5 Proofs of Limit Theorems
  • A.6 Commonly Occurring Limits
  • A.7 Theory of the Real Numbers
  • A.8 Complex Numbers
  • A.9 The Distributive Law for Vector Cross Products
  • A.10 The Mixed Derivative Theorem and the increment Theorem

Additional Topics (online)

  • B.1 Relative Rates of Growth
  • B.2 Probability
  • B.3 Conics in Polar Coordinates
  • B.4 Taylor’s Formula for Two Variables
  • B.5 Partial Derivatives with Constrained Variables

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About our authors

Joel Hass received his PhD from the University of California - Berkeley. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California - Davis. He has coauthored 6 widely used calculus texts as well as 2 calculus study guides. He is currently on the editorial board of Geometriae Dedicata and Media-Enhanced Mathematics. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and he was a Sloan Research Fellow. Hass's current areas of research include the geometry of proteins, 3-dimensional manifolds, applied math and computational complexity. In his free time, Hass enjoys kayaking.

Christopher Heil received his PhD from the University of Maryland. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of a graduate text on analysis and a number of highly cited research survey articles. He serves on the editorial boards of Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis and The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Its Applications. Heil's current areas of research include redundant representations, operator theory and applied harmonic analysis. In his spare time, Heil pursues his hobby of astronomy.

Maurice D. Weir holds a DA and MS from Carnegie-Mellon University and received his BS at Whitman College. He is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Weir enjoys teaching Mathematical Modeling and Differential Equations. His current areas of research include modeling and simulation as well as mathematics education. Weir has been awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, the Superior Civilian Service Award, and the Schieffelin Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has coauthored 8 books, including the University Calculus series and Thomas' Calculus.

Przemyslaw Bogacki is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and a University Professor at Old Dominion University. He received his PhD in 1990 from Southern Methodist University. He is the author of a text on linear algebra. He is actively involved in applications of technology in collegiate mathematics. His areas of research include computer aided geometric design and numerical solution of initial value problems for ordinary differential equations.

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