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First, welcome! We hope we’ll be able to help you learn Calculus as well as you’d like.

If you can, begin your Calculus studies with Chapter 1: “Introductory Ideas,” where we lay the groundwork for what’s to come. You’ll immediately be doing easy Calculus calculations, and we’ll just keep building from there!

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Due to the evolution of our site, our material exists in two forms:

“Chapter > Section > Topic”: Our new material goes screen-by-screen, so you can build your solid understanding step-by-step. We’ve crafted focused, interactive Desmos calculators so you can explore key ideas for yourself, and hence apply those new ideas to each new problem type you encounter. The accompanying Check Questions and Practice Problems (all of course with complete solutions a click away) are then focused on that screen’s material.
“Legacy Material”: By contrast, our Legacy Material treats each Topic on a single screen, with a brief summary at the top and then Practice Problems with complete solutions. Previous students have found these pages quite helpful; they’re just not nearly as developed as the new material.

The tables below show all of the content currently on the site (except for Blog posts). They also show how the Legacy Material aligns with the new material. Please dive in wherever would be most helpful to you!

CHAPTER 1: Introductory Ideas

SECTION	TOPIC	LEGACY MATERIAL (single screen)
A. First Calculations; Linear Approximations; Differentials	A.1 First Calculus Calculations: Simple Motion
	A.2 Generalizing to Other Rates of Change
	A.3 Introducing Linear Approximations;
	A.4 Linear Approximations: Practice Problems	Approximations
	A.5 Differentials; Begin to Determine $\dfrac{df}{dx}$ at $x=a$
B. Average Rate of Change; Better estimate for $\dfrac{df}{dx}$ at $x = a$	B.1 Average Velocity for a Trip; Over Any Interval
	B.2 Generalizing Average Rate of Change
	B.3 Lab 1: Approximate and Bound Error of $\dfrac{df}{dx}$

CHAPTER 2: Limits & Continuity

SECTION	TOPIC	LEGACY MATERIAL (single screen)
A. The Concept of Limits	A.1 Limits Introduction
	A.2 Tolerance and Pancake Story
	A.3 Epsilon, Delta, and Formal Limit Definition
	A.4 Lab 2: Find a Limit Using Approximations
	A.5 Some Limits That Exist; Some That Do Not
	A.6 One-Sided Limits
	A.7 Vertical Asymptotes
B. Calculating Limits	B.1 Limit Laws	B.2 Evaluating Limits: Problems & Solutions
	B.3 Substitution to Find a Limit
	B.4 Factor to Find a Limit
	B.5 Use Conjugates to Find a Limit
	B.6 Use Algebra to Find a Limit
	B.7 The Squeeze Theorem
	B.8 Special Trig Limits
C. Limits at Infinity	C.1 Introduction to Limits at Infinity	Limits at Infinity: Problems & Solutions
	C.2 The Epsilon Strip
	C.3 Some Limits at Infinity that Exist; Some That Do Not
	C.4 Some Limits at Negative Infinity
	C.5 Limits of Polynomials
	C.6 Limits of Rational Functions
	C.7 Limits of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
	C.8 Limits at Infinity with Square Roots	Limit at Infinity Problems with Square Roots
D. Continuity and Intermediate Value Theorem	D.1 Continuity at a Point and Over an Interval	Continuity & Intermediate Value Theorem (IVT)
	D.2 Discontinuity Types; Removable Discontinuities
	D.3 Continuous Functions; Continuity Theorems
	D.4 Intermediate Value Theorem

CHAPTER 3: The Derivative

This foundational Chapter is in progress!

CHAPTER 4: Calculating Derivatives

SECTION	TOPIC	LEGACY MATERIAL (single screen)
A. Derivatives of Polynomials, Exponential, & Trig Functions	A.1 Derivatives of Constant, Linear, & Power Functions	Calculate Derivatives
	A.2 Derivatives of Exponential Functions
	A.3 Derivatives of $\sin x$ and $\cos x$
B. The Product and Quotient Rules	B.1 The Product Rule		Calculate Derivatives
B. The Product and Quotient Rules	B.2 The Quotient Rule		Calculate Derivatives
C. The Chain Rule	C.1 Chain Rule – Introduction	Chain Rule
	C.2 Chain Rule – Basic Practice
	C.3 Chain Rule – Deeper Work
	C.4 Chain Rule – Used to Find Yet More Derivatives
D. Implicit Differentiation	D.1 Explicitly and Implicitly Defined Functions
	D.2 Implicit Differentiation	Implicit Differentiation
			Derivative of ln x
E. Inverse Functions	E.2 Derivative of Inverse Functions

CHAPTER 5: Applications of Derivatives

We currently only have legacy material for this Chapter, but are working to get new material up soon.

SECTION	TOPIC	LEGACY MATERIAL (single screen)
		Tangent & Normal Lines
		Maxima & Minima
		Curve Sketching
		Mean Value Theorem
		Approximations
		L’Hôpital’s Rule
		Related Rates
		Optimization

CHAPTER 6: The Integral and Integration

We currently only have legacy material for this Chapter, but are working to get new material up soon.

SECTION	TOPIC	LEGACY MATERIAL (single screen)
		Definite Integration
		Indefinite Integration
		u-Substitution

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