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- First Calculus Calculations: Simple Motion
- Generalizing to Other Rates of Change
- Introducing Linear Approximations and Differentials
- Average Rate of Change
- Estimating df/dx at x = a
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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!
And if you need to jump into a later topic because that’s where you are in your course, by all means please do.
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Limits & Continuity
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Calculating Derivatives
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Calculus 1 (Legacy)
- Evaluating Limits: Problems & Solutions
- Limits at Infinity Problems & Solutions
- Limit at Infinity Problems with Square Roots
- Calculate Derivatives: power rule, exponentials, trig derivatives; Product Rule, Quotient Rule
- Chain Rule: necessary for computing the derivative of most functions
- Derivative of $\ln(x)$
- Tangent & Normal Lines: how to find their equations easily (super-common exam questions)
- Implicit Differentiation
- Related Rates
- Approximations
- Maxima & Minima
- Curve Sketching
- L’Hôpital’s Rule
- Mean Value Theorem
- Optimization
- Integration, Definite
- Integration, Indefinite
- u-Substitution
