Calculus of a Single Variable 9th Edition

Book Preface

Student Solutions Manual—Need a leg up on your homework or help to  prepare for an exam? The Student Solutions Manual contains worked-out  solutions for all odd-numbered exercises in the text. It is a great resource to help you understand how to solve those tough problems. Notetaking Guide—This notebook organizer is designed to help you organize your notes, and provides section-by-section summaries of key topics and other helpful study tools. The Notetaking Guide is available for download on the book’s website.

WebAssign®—The most widely used homework system in higher education, WebAssign offers instant feedback and repeatable problems, everything you could ask for in an online homework system. WebAssign’s homework system lets you practice and submit homework via the web. It is easy to use and loaded with extra resources. With this edition of Larson’s Calculus, there are over  3,000 algorithmic homework exercises to use for practice and review. DVD Lecture Series—Comprehensive, instructional lecture presentations serve a number of uses. They are great if you need to catch up after missing  a class, need to supplement online or hybrid instruction, or need material for  self-study or review.

CalcLabs with Maple® and Mathematica®— Working with Maple or Mathematica in class? Be sure to pick up one of these comprehensive manuals that will help you use each program efficiently.

Welcome to the Ninth Edition of Calculus of a Single Variable! We are proud to offer you a new and revised version of our textbook. Much has changed since we wrote the first edition over 35 years ago. With each edition we have listened to you, our users, and have incorporated many of your suggestions for improvement.

Throughout the years, our objective has always been to write in a precise, readable manner with the fundamental concepts and rules of calculus clearly defined and demonstrated. When writing for students, we strive to offer features and  materials that enable mastery by all types of learners. For the instructors, we aim to provide a comprehensive teaching instrument that employs proven pedagogical  techniques, freeing instructors to make the most efficient use of classroom time.
This revision brings us to a new level of change and improvement. For the past several years, we’ve maintained an independent website—CalcChat.com—that provides free solutions to all odd-numbered exercises in the text. Thousands of  students using our textbooks have visited the site for practice and help with their homework. With the Ninth Edition, we were able to use information from CalcChat.com, including which solutions students accessed most often, to help guide the revision of the exercises. This edition of Calculus will be the first calculus textbook to use actual data from students.

We have also added a new feature called Capstone exercises to this edition. These conceptual problems synthesize key topics and provide students with a better understanding of each section’s concepts. Capstone exercises are excellent for  classroom discussion or test prep, and instructors may find value in integrating these problems into their review of the section. These and other new features join our  time-tested pedagogy, with the goal of enabling students and instructors to make the best use of this text.

We hope you will enjoy the Ninth Edition of Calculus of a Single Variable. As always, we welcome comments and suggestions for continued improvements