Chapter 3
Recent Memories: Review of Calculus I
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding and evaluating limits
Seeing the relationship between a derivative and a slope
Differentiating with the Product and Quotient rules
Feeling confident with the Chain rule
Evaluating indeterminate forms of limits with L’Hôpital’s rule
If you’re currently enrolled in a Calculus II course, I’m guessing you recently completed Calculus I. Even so, you may feel, as many students do, that Calculus I is kind of one big blur.
If so, this chapter is probably for you. Here, I condense down a semester’s worth of information into a handful of bite-sized chunks that you can consume now or as needed as Calculus II unfolds before you.
To begin, you review limits. I discuss how limits and functions are different and give you a brief refresher on evaluating limits.
Next, I give you a review of derivatives, which is the central focus of Calculus I. Recall that the derivative of a function allows you to calculate the slope of ...
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