Designed for the three-semester engineering calculus course, CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTIONS, 7E, INTERNATIONAL METRIC EDITION continues to offer instructors and students innovative teaching and learning resources. The Larson team always has two main objectives for text revisions: to develop precise, readable materials for students that clearly define and demonstrate concepts and rules of calculus; and to design comprehensive teaching resources for instructors that employ proven pedagogical techniques and save time. The Larson/Edwards Calculus program offers a solution to address the needs of any calculus course and any level of calculus student. CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTIONS, INTERNATIONAL METRIC EDITION has made the mastery of traditional calculus skills a priority, while embracing the best features of new technology and, when appropriate, calculus reform ideas.
More conceptual exercises have been added to help students better understand the concepts being taught in each section.
The Section Projects have been carefully and extensively examined to ensure they are rigorous and relevant. The authors have added and revised a number of these projects.
LarsonCalculus.com – The authors created a free website hosting valuable resources. At this website, students can access the following: Proof Videos – Watch co-author Bruce Edwards present theorems and explain their proofs. Calculus Videos – Watch Dana Mosely explain concepts of calculus. Interactive Examples – Explore examples using Wolfram’s free CDF player (plug-in required). Rotatable Graphs – View and rotate three-dimensional graphs using Wolfram’s free CDF player (plug-in required).
HOW DO YOU SEE IT? Exercises - The How Do You See It? exercise in each section presents a problem that students will solve by visual inspection using the concepts learned in the lesson.
Remarks - These hints and tips can be used to reinforce or expand upon concepts, help students learn how to study mathematics, caution them about common errors, address special cases, or show alternative or additional steps to a solution of an example.
Exercise Sets - The exercise sets have been carefully and extensively reviewed to ensure they are rigorous and relevant with thorough topic coverage. Multi-step, real-life exercises reinforce problem-solving skills and mastery of concepts by letting you apply the concepts in real-life situations. Putnam Exam questions appear in selected sections to push the limits of students’ understanding of calculus. Graphing technology exercises for students to make us of a graphing utility to help find solutions.
WebAssign Course: The Larson WebAssign course has over 3,900 textbook questions drawn from the book, that offer more coverage of problems and topics than most online homework programs for Calculus. The WebAssign course for Larson CALCULUS will present numerous section-level video lessons by Dana Mosely and animated tutorials. In addition to these assets, the course includes exercise-level features: Read It, Watch It, Master It, and Talk to a Tutor links. These tools benefit students with varied learning styles to ensure they get the most out of their online learning experience.
Graded Homework Exercises: Online homework and tests are evaluated using powerful Maple software to ensure mathematical accuracy. Instructors control point values, weighting grades, and whether or not an item is graded. An electronic gradebook helps instructors manage course information easily and can be exported to other files, such as Excel.