calculus.org: THE CALCULUS PAGE

Calculus.org Resources For The Calculus Student:

• Calculus problems with step-by-step solutions
  Calculus problems with detailed, solutions. It's calculus done the old-fashioned way - one problem at a time, one easy-to-follow step at a time, with problems ranging in difficulty from easy to challenging. Also available are scanned solutions to problems in differential, integral and multi-variable calculus and series.
• Excerpts from "How To Ace Calculus"
  Excerpts from "How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide" a recently published book with an unorthodox humorous approach to learning calculus. For those with a sense of humor only.
• Calculus animations in Maple and Calculus animations in Mathematica
  A series of Quicktime movies, contributed by Deej Heath of Pacific Lutheran University. These illustrate many ideas of calculus, and also include instructions on how to make similar animations yourself using Maple or Mathematica.
• Calculus Applets
  A collection of Java applets illustrating calculus concepts by Deej Heath at Pacific Lutheran University.
• Tips on preparing for exams
  How to study and do well on exams
• Sample Exams
  See if you are ready for your exam by taking our collection of sample exams.
• Mathematics and the job market
  A list of professions which use mathematics

Calculus.org Resources For The Calculus Instructor:

• Sample exam problems
  Here are sample exams problems from first year calculus, in tex format, sorted by problem area. Feel free to modify these and use them for your own exams.
• Calculus classroom demonstrations
  Calculus demonstrations that you can use in the classroom to spice up your lectures and prevent those nodding heads.

LINKS TO OTHER CALCULUS SITES:

Tutorials and courses in calculus:

• Online math courses from MIT. The OpenCourseWare project at MIT puts many valuable resources online. Calculus and many other math courses are represented.
  
• Calculus Lecture Notes from the University of Toronto at Scarsborough.
  
• Single Variable Calculus Mika Seppälä of Florida State University and the University of Helsinki presents classroom type notes on calculus, in pdf and powerpoint format.
  

Animated demonstrations of calculus:

• Gallery of animated and graphical demonstrations of calculus and related topics, from the University of Vienna.
• Tutorials for the Calculus Phobe: A collection of animated calculus tutorials in Flash format.
  

Sites with Calculus Exams.

• Sample exams from the University of California, Davis
• Several years of calculus exams from the University of Wisconsin.
• Sample exams from Exambot.
• Practice exams from Colorado State, based on Thomas' Calculus Text.
• Calc I sample exams from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Sample exams from the SUNY Stony Brook.
• Sample exams from the University of Montana.
• Sample Calc III exams from Georgia Tech.
• Sample exams and more Sample exams from MIT.
• Sample exams from UBC.
• Actuarial Review Problems: Multiple choice problems with solutions, from precalc to Multivariable caclulus. From Ronald Miech at UCLA.
• Sample exams from Rutgers.
• Skill Mastery Quizzes based on the calculus text of Thomas, Finney, Weir and Giordano. These interactive quizzes cover a full standard calculus sequence.
• The University of Sydney: provides interactive quizzes based on Stewart's calculus text.
• Exams From U. Md.: Several years of exams and quizzes by Dr. Martin Bohner of the University of Maryland.
  
• PostYourTest.com: Users post their exams on this website. All subjects, but includes some calculus exams.
  

Sites with Calculus problems.

• Aid for Calculus: About 300xsample problems from John A. Taylor, with solutions. Nicely indexed.
  
• exampleproblems.com: This wiki site has lots of user generrated sample problems with solutions in calculus and other areas.
  
• Dr. Math: Great list of problems. Also has something to say on calculus and other topics.
  
• S.O.S. Math - Calculus: Good list of problems with solutions. Through Fourier Series.
• Calculus 1 Problems and Solutions : Problems with solutions for single variable calculus.
• Ask Mr. Calculus: Ask Mr. Calculus your questions. Some good problems.
• The Math Shop: Some solved problems, java applets for calculus, and review material.
  
• www.calculus-help.com: Nice collection of problems with solutions, aimed at AP calculus exam.
  
• Hotmath: Follow the students button to get a list of solutions to the odd problems in the calculus texts of Stewart; Larson, Hostetler, Edwards; and Tan
  
• Find The Error: Douglas Shaw challenges you to find the error in some calculus proofs.
  

Sites with Mathematica, Maple, etc. based calculus notebooks and problems.

• Mathematica notebooks: A large collection of Mathematica notebooks, from the Mathematics Department at Wright State University. In both Windows and Mac formats.
  
• Interactive Learning in Calculus and Differential Equations with Applications: A collection of Mathematica notebooks explaining topics in these areas, from the Mathematics Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
  
• WebCalc: A completely on-line calculus course at Texas A&M. Needs Scientific Notebook, but a free viewer version is available.
  
• Calculus & Mathematica: An online introductory calculus course at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ohio State University.
  
• calculus@internet: San Joaquin Delta College offers a technological approach to calculus. Has Mathematica labs for calculus. Includes instructions on how to use Mathematica.

Help resources in calculus:

• Academic Assistance Access: Provides free tutoring on several subjects, including calculus, through email.

Online texts:

• Calculus Made Easy A classic calculus supplement by Sylvanius P. Thompson. Published in 1914, it was very popular. The treatment is intuitive. Available via a digital library.
  
• Free Online Textbooks Links to free online texts in a variety of mathematical areas, including calculus.
• Online math textbooks from a list maintained by George Cain, at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
  
• Calculus textbook by Gilbert Strang. Full textbook available in pdf format.
  

Sites with explanations of calculus topics:

• Online calculus notes: From the University of British Columbia. Has some nice explanations and some interactive features.
  
• Calculating the Volume of a Vase: A very nicely presented project in which the volume of a real vase is computed. From the Duke University Mathematics Department.
  
• Karl's Calculus Tutor: Lots of nice explanations of calculus concepts.
  
• Mudd Math Fun Facts: Nice explanations of many calculus (and other mathematical) concepts. Also has geometry, algebra, probability etc. sections. Organized by level of difficulty.
  
• Common Errors: Common errors in undergraduate mathematics, compiled by Eric Schechter at Vanderbilt University.
  
• Graphics for the calculus classroom: A collection of graphics and animations that illustrate calculus concepts.
  
• Survival Guide: One person's calculus survival guide.
• AP Calculus: College Board's guide to AP Calculus.
• Dave's math Tables: Tables of integrals, derivatives, and series expansions.
• Learning Calculus: Some calculus motivational propaganda.
• Animated examples by Louis A. Talman of the Metropolitan State College of Denver. A nice collection of very informative animations.
  
• DAU Tutorial Modules from George Mason University. Nicely laid out elementary explanations of calculus topics.
• Dr. Vogel's Gallery of Calculus Pathologies A collection of strange functions that illustrate points about continuity and differentiablility.
• World Web Math Linked collection of calculus explanations from MIT.
• Wikepedia Entry on calculus in the online encyclopedia. Many links to specialized topics.
  

Other lists of calculus site links:

• Yahoo directory: Yahoo's directory of calculus sites.
• Mozilla directory: Mozilla's directory of calculus sites.
• Google directory: Google's directory of calculus sites.
• coolmath.com: A general math site with lots of nicely done mathematical content, including some calculus concepts and calculus links.
• Math Forum Internet Resource Collection: At Swarthmore - may be the most comprehensive, up-to-date calculus website anywhere on the internet. See Topic calculus for links realted to Differentiation, Integration, Sequences and Series.
• About.com calculus links: About.com maintains a list of calculus sites.
• edu-links: Calculus sites from edu-links.
• calculus.net: Offers a directory to calculus and other mathematics resources.
• Libby's Web Page: Includes mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, college, and scholarships links and more.
  
• Calculus Resources Online: Lots of good links from the The University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
  
• Calculus site rankings: Ranked and reviewed list of calculus sites from Montclair State University. (We're number 2, so we try harder.)
  

Vector calculus and multivariable calculus sites:

• Georgia Tech Vector calculus home page: Lecture notes, plus extensive collection of Maple and Mathematica notebooks.
• Multivariate Calculus With Maple:: Mulitvariable calculus explanations, with many problems implemented and solved using Maple. Nice explanations of some topics.
• The Calc 4 Home Page: A vector calculus site at Northeastern University.
• Advanced Calculus : web tutorial from the University of Cape Town.

Calculus applets and software:

• Math Applets for Calculus at SLU: Mike May at St. Louis University has a selection of applets to illustrate important concepts of single and multivariable calculus.
• calculusapplets.com: An extensive collection of applets to illustrate interactively the ideas of single variable calculus.
• MathServ Calculus Toolkit: An online toolkit for graphing, limits, derivatives, inverses etc.
• integral.com: An online integrator. Be careful or you will be replaced by a $12 calculator.
• FADBAD: A C++ program for automatic differentiation. You can download it if you like.
  
• Some Java applets: A collection of Java applets illustrating concepts of calculus.
• calculator.org: A scientific calculator.

Related Topics: Precalculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra etc.:

• Precalculus Notes : Extensive collection of nice explanations of precalculus topics by Ken Kuniyuki of San Diego Mesa College.

Applications of Calculus:

• Calculus and Probability: Calculus Applied to Probability and Statistics for Liberal Arts and Business Majors

Resources for calculus instructors:

• RESOURCES FOR CALCULUS III A collection of class demonstrations from GA Tech.
  
• The Web and Exerquiz Packages A package for making interactive quizzes and exercises.
  

Calculus and Society, History etc:

• A history of calculus: Part of a math history project at St. Andrews College.
  
• Why calculus?: Why calculus is important. From Helmer Aslaken at the National University of Singapore.
  
• History of mathematics: An outstanding history website.
  
• Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus: Origins of notations of caculus.
  

Fun math links:

• Birthdays: Mathematicians who have birthdays today.
• pi: The history of pi. Additional "stuff" about pi

Prizes and competitions:

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