Description
Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Expanded Edition, provides a sound, intuitive understanding of the basic concepts students need as they pursue careers in business, economics, and the life and social sciences. Stu- dents achieve success using this text as a result of the authors’ applied and real-world orientation to concepts, problem-solving approach, straightforward and concise writing style, and comprehensive exercise sets. More than 100,000 students worldwide have studied from this text!
Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Expanded Eleventh Edition, contains all of the material present in the Brief Edition of Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, plus four addi- tional chapters covering Trigonometric Functions, Differential Equations, Infinite Series and Taylor Series Approximations, and Probability and Calculus.
Improvements to This Edition
Revised Content
Every section in the text underwent careful analysis and extensive review to ensure the most beneficial and clear presentation. Additional steps and definition boxes were added when necessary for greater clarity and precision, graphs and figures were revised as necessary, and discussions and introductions were added or rewritten as needed to improve presentation.
Enhanced Topic Coverage
As technology advances, trigonometric functions are becoming more and more important for all applied topics. For this reason, the chapter on Trigonometric Functions has been moved from Chapter 11 to Chapter 8. This allows classes who cover this topic to do so earlier in the term, following the syllabi of most applied calculus classes and making it clear that trigonometric functions are important for future study. Trig functions are identified and integrated throughout the later chapters, allowing those professors who cover trig functions to assign items that relate to what they have cov- ered while making it simple for students who have not seen trigonometric functions before to skip this material.
Material on the Extreme Value Property for functions of two variables and find- ing extreme values on closed, bounded regions has been added to Section 7.3. This completes the analogy with the one-variable case and better prepares students for future study of statistics and finite mathematics.
Improved Exercise Sets
Almost 250 new routine and application exercises have been added to the already extensive problem sets. A wealth of new applied problems has been added to help demonstrate the practicality of the material, and existing applications have been updated. Exercise sets have been rearranged so that applications are categorized by topic (business/economics, life and social sciences, and miscellaneous).
New Pedagogical Design Elements