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 | | Student Outlines Part Two for Thomas' Calculus (Pt. 2) by George B. Thomas, Maurice D. Weir, Joel Hass, Frank R. Giordano ISBN-10: 9780321226419 ISBN-10: 0-321-22641-0 ISBN-13: 9780321226419 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-22641-9 Paperback 2005-01-17 Addison Wesley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Organized to correspond to the text, the Student Outlines by Joseph Borzellino and Patricia Nelson reinforce important concepts and provide an outline of the important topics, theorems, and definitions, as well as study tips and additional practice problems. Part Two corresponds to chapters 11-16 of Thomas' Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Eleventh Edition. | ||
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Helpful but somewhat lacking This is the first solutions manual that I have ever purchased, so I don't know how typical my issues with this solutions manual are in relation to others. I suspect they are. First and foremost, calling it a solutions manual is misleading. I feel that it would be more appropriate to call it a partial solutions manual, since only the solutions to the odd-numbers problems are shown. I understand that they may have done this to allow instructors the option of assigning the even numbered problems as homework. Unfortunately, because neither the solutions or just the final answers are available, it renders the even numbered problems useless for the sake of practice. My current calculus professor, as well as most of my other math and science professors past and present, either place very little or no emphasis on homework in terms of overall grade. Ultimately, even if a student were to copy all the answers and hand them in, they won't do very well on the exams. The point of homework to provide the repetition needed to understand and master the material, so what good is doing a problem that you can't even find out whether you got the right answer? In fact, doing so might even reinforce bad techniques and habits. Secondly, I have encountered numerous cases where the solutions, especially in the later sections, make a big jump from one step to the next. This usually in the case of some sort of trig identity or algebraic trick that was used in previous chapters. I get the argument that it is usually something that should already be known, but what advantage could omitting it have for the student? In a few of the cases I have encountered, I would be afraid my instructor would take off points on an exam for leaving out the step. These issues cause me to wonder if they are simply the result of the publisher cutting corners to reduce overhead. It kind of seems that way. I will say that it is better than nothing, and does provide a good resource to check your work against on the odd numbered problems. If you are putting in the time necessary to learn a difficult subject like calculus, this book will be helpful in affirming that you are not only getting the right answers, but also getting them in an appropriate and efficient way. I simply feel that the shortcomings of this solutions manual render it mediocre in terms of being a learning tool. If there were other options it wouldn't be so bad, but when a school chooses to use a particular text, and only half the answers are even available, it feels a little bit like your getting taken advantage of. | ||
Fine for those who already understand calculus This textbook is generally understandable, however, it seriously lacks thorough explanations of basic concepts. It is clearly written for the math proficient, not those who always struggle, even if we've made it up to the calculus level. Two major problems: 1) Its explanations are in math-speak, making it difficult to understand; 2) It contains exercise problems that were never explained in the chapter. My professor seems to think that its okay to put those problems in the homework. The result is that I am guessing and working backwards from the solution to figure out how the heck the problem is solved, and I usually don't get it. I took precalculus with Blitzer's textbook, which is far more interactive, application-based, and clear. Is there a calculus textbook as wonderful as Blitzer's precalc? | ||
Visualize I liked how this book gave many detailed graphs to help explain the concepts. My only complaint so far is how it vaguely explained to apply the Divergence theorem and then gave a pretty ambiguous picture that was pretty worthless to understanding what exactly it applied to. | ||
Average Calculus Text Great for students in engineering or science--but not for mathematics majors who will go on to take analysis and algebra. They deserve a treatment by Spivak or Apostol. There are some interesting problems that follow the end of each chapter. Overall, it's not that interesting, but not that bad in terms of material presentation. | ||