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Calculus: A Complete Course (10e)

Adams and Essex's calculus book, covering Calc 1, 2, and 3. Simpson's Rule gets its own section here, which most books don't do.

15 chapters 435 lessons Guided notes for every video
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Ch P - Preliminaries

Review of real numbers, coordinate geometry, functions, polynomials, rational functions, and trigonometric functions used throughout calculus.

6 sections
Chapter 1

Limits and Continuity

Examples of velocity and area; limits of functions; limits at infinity and infinite limits; continuity; the formal epsilon-delta definition of limit.

5 sections
Chapter 2

Differentiation

Tangent lines and the derivative; power, product, quotient, and chain rules; trig and higher-order derivatives; differentials, the Mean Value Theorem; implicit differentiation; antiderivatives, velocity and acceleration.

11 sections
Chapter 3

Transcendental Functions

Inverse functions; natural logarithm and exponential; growth and decay; inverse trig functions; hyperbolic functions. Adams uniquely places intro to second-order linear DEs in this chapter.

6 sections
Chapter 4

More Applications of Differentiation

Related rates, root finding, indeterminate forms, extreme values, concavity, curve sketching, applied optimization, linear approximations, Taylor polynomials.

9 sections
Chapter 5

Integration

Sums and sigma notation; areas as Riemann sums; the definite integral and its properties; the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; substitution; areas of plane regions.

7 sections
Chapter 6

Techniques of Integration

Integration by parts, partial fractions, trig substitution and other inverse substitutions, additional methods (tables/CAS), improper integrals, trapezoid and midpoint rules, Simpson's rule. Adams 10e is unique in natively separating Trapezoid+Midpoint (§6.6) from Simpson's (§6.7) as distinct sections.

6 sections
Chapter 7

Applications of Integration

Volumes of solids of revolution; arc length and surface area; physical applications (work, fluid pressure); first-order separable differential equations and their applications.

5 sections
Chapter 8

Conics, Parametric Curves, and Polar Curves

Parametric curves; their slopes, arc lengths, and areas; polar coordinates; polar curves and their geometry.

5 sections
Chapter 9

Sequences, Series, and Power Series

Sequences; infinite series; convergence tests; absolute and conditional convergence; power series; Taylor and Maclaurin series and their applications.

7 sections
Chapter 10

Vectors and Coordinate Geometry in 3-Space

Three-dimensional analytic geometry; vectors and operations; cross product; lines and planes; quadric surfaces; cylindrical and spherical coordinates.

6 sections
Chapter 11

Vector Functions and Curves

Vector-valued functions of one variable; calculus of vector functions; curvature, torsion, and the Frenet frame.

5 sections
Chapter 12

Partial Differentiation

Functions of several variables; limits and continuity; partial and higher-order derivatives; the chain rule; linear approximations and differentiability; gradients and directional derivatives.

7 sections
Chapter 13

Applications of Partial Derivatives

Extreme values; optimization on restricted domains; Lagrange multipliers. Adams 13.4-13.8 cover advanced/niche topics (n-space Lagrange, least squares, parametric problems, Newton's method for systems, calculus of variations) deferred per single-book candidate gaps.

3 sections
Chapter 14

Multiple Integration

Double and triple integrals over regions; iterated integrals; integration in polar, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates; change of variables.

5 sections