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Calculus: Single Variable | 6th Edition | ISBN: 9780470888643 | Authors: Deborah Hughes-Hallett, Andrew M. Gleason, William G. McCallum, Daniel E. Flath, Patti Frazer Lock, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, & 9 more

Table of Contents

1
A LIBRARY OF FUNCTIONS
1.1
FUNCTIONS AND CHANGE
1.2
EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS
1.3
NEW FUNCTIONS FROM OLD
1.4
LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS
1.5
TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
1.6
POWERS, POLYNOMIALS, AND RATIONAL FUNCTIONS
1.7
INTRODUCTION TO CONTINUITY
1.8
LIMITS

2
KEY CONCEPT: THE DERIVATIVE
2.1
HOW DO WE MEASURE SPEED?
2.2
THE DERIVATIVE AT A POINT
2.3
THE DERIVATIVE FUNCTION
2.4
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE DERIVATIVE
2.5
THE SECOND DERIVATIVE
2.6
DIFFERENTIABILITY

3
SHORT-CUTS TO DIFFERENTIATION
3.1
POWERS AND POLYNOMIALS
3.10
THEOREMS ABOUT DIFFERENTIABLE FUNCTIONS
3.2
THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION
3.3
THE PRODUCT AND QUOTIENT RULES
3.4
THE CHAIN RULE
3.5
THE TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
3.6
THE CHAIN RULE AND INVERSE FUNCTIONS
3.7
THE CHAIN RULE AND INVERSE FUNCTIONS
3.8
IMPLICIT FUNCTIONS
3.9
HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS

4
USING THE DERIVATIVE
4.1
USING FIRST AND SECOND DERIVATIVES
4.2
OPTIMIZATION
4.3
OPTIMIZATION AND MODELING
4.4
FAMILIES OF FUNCTIONS AND MODELING
4.5
APPLICATIONS TO MARGINALITY
4.6
RATES AND RELATED RATES
4.7
LHOPITALS RULE, GROWTH, AND DOMINANCE
4.8
PARAMETRIC EQUATIONS

5
KEY CONCEPT: THE DEFINITE INTEGRAL
5.1
HOW DO WE MEASURE DISTANCE TRAVELED?
5.2
THE DEFINITE INTEGRAL
5.3
THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM AND INTERPRETATIONS
5.4
THEOREMS ABOUT DEFINITE INTEGRALS 2

6
CONSTRUCTING ANTIDERIVATIVES
6.1
ANTIDERIVATIVES GRAPHICALLY AND NUMERICALLY
6.2
CONSTRUCTING ANTIDERIVATIVES ANALYTICALLY
6.3
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND MOTION
6.4
SECOND FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF CALCULUS

7
INTEGRATION
7.1
INTEGRATION BY SUBSTITUTION
7.2
INTEGRATION BY PARTS
7.3
TABLES OF INTEGRALS
7.4
ALGEBRAIC IDENTITIES AND TRIGONOMETRIC SUBSTITUTIONS
7.5
NUMERICAL METHODS FOR DEFINITE INTEGRALS
7.6
IMPROPER INTEGRALS
7.7
COMPARISON OF IMPROPER INTEGRALS

8
USING THE DEFINITE INTEGRAL
8.1
AREAS AND VOLUMES
8.2
APPLICATIONS TO GEOMETRY
8.3
AREA AND ARC LENGTH IN POLAR COORDINATES
8.4
DENSITY AND CENTER OF MASS
8.5
APPLICATIONS TO PHYSICS
8.6
APPLICATIONS TO ECONOMICS
8.7
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
8.8
PROBABILITY, MEAN, AND MEDIAN

9
SEQUENCES AND SERIES
9.1
SEQUENCES
9.2
GEOMETRIC SERIES
9.3
CONVERGENCE OF SERIES
9.4
TESTS FOR CONVERGENCE
9.5
POWER SERIES AND INTERVAL OF CONVERGENCE

10
APPROXIMATING FUNCTIONS USING SERIES
10.1
TAYLOR POLYNOMIALS
10.2
TAYLOR SERIES
10.3
FINDING AND USING TAYLOR SERIES
10.4
THE ERROR IN TAYLOR POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATIONS
10.5
FOURIER SERIES

11
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
11.1
WHAT IS A DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION?
11.2
SLOPE FIELDS
11.3
EULERS METHOD
11.4
SEPARATION OF VARIABLES
11.5
SEPARATION OF VARIABLES
11.6
APPLICATIONS AND MODELING
11.7
THE LOGISTIC MODEL
11.8
SYSTEMS OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
11.9
ANALYZING THE PHASE PLANE

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Chapter 4 Problem 108

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In 1696, the first calculus textbook was published by the Marquis de lHopital. The following problem is a simplified version of a problem from this text. In Figure 4.122, two ropes are attached to the ceiling at points 3 meters apart. The rope on the left is 1 meter long and has a pulley attached at its end. The rope on the right is 3 meters long; it passes through the pulley and has a weight tied to its end. When the weight is released, the ropes and pulley arrange themselves so that the distance from the weight to the ceiling is maximized. (a) Show that the maximum distance occurs when the weight is exactly halfway between the the points where the ropes are attached to the ceiling. [Hint: Write the vertical distance from the weight to the ceiling in terms of its horizontal distance to the point at which the left rope is tied to the ceiling. A computer algebra system will be useful.] (b) Does the weight always end up halfway between the ceiling anchor points no matter how long the lefthand rope is? Explain.

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Title Calculus: Single Variable  6 
Author Deborah Hughes-Hallett, Andrew M. Gleason, William G. McCallum, Daniel E. Flath, Patti Frazer Lock, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, & 9 more
ISBN 9780470888643

In 1696, the first calculus textbook was published by the Marquis de lHopital. The

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