How to Solve Word Problems in Calculus

✍ Scribed by Eugene Don, Benay Don

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you are like me and never quite got how to do work problems then this book is for you. It explains how the adjectives and adverbs translate into mathematical terms that you can use to solve any textbook word problem that you would encounter. It is even good for business and engineering problem solutions.

✦ Table of Contents

How to SolveWord Problems in Calculus......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Strategies for Solving Word Problems......Page 12
Extracting Functions from Word Problems......Page 14
Strategy for Extracting Functions......Page 16
Number Problems......Page 17
Two–Dimensional Geometry Problems......Page 18
Three–Dimensional Geometry Problems......Page 24
Business and Economics Problems......Page 29
Rates of Change in the Natural and Social Sciences......Page 40
Motion along a Straight Line......Page 43
Applications to Science and Engineering......Page 49
Business and Economics......Page 52
Related Rates......Page 59
Applied Maximum and Minimum......Page 83
Trigonometric Functions......Page 142
Related Rates......Page 143
Maximum-Minimum Problems......Page 148
Exponential Functions......Page 163
Exponential-Growth and Decay......Page 164
Continuous Compounding of Interest......Page 170
Additional Exponential Models......Page 172
Area Problems......Page 188
Volumes of Solids of Revolution......Page 197
Rates of Change in Business......Page 218
Marginal Analysis in Economics......Page 220
Related Rates......Page 223
Optimization......Page 227
Inventory Control......Page 229