Reddit reviews Calculus: Early Transcendentals

Holy crap OP, where do you go to school? All the topics you mentioned are (in my experience) usually split up into two separate courses (Calc II and III), and part of a third as well (the diff eq. stuff). As far as textbooks go I can only recommend what I used:

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-Stewart/dp/0538497904/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418617662&sr=8-1&keywords=calculus+early+transcendentals+7th+edition

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-Howard-Anton/dp/0470647698/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1418617682&sr=8-2&keywords=anton+calculus

I'm about 90% sure that your calculus course will use this book.

I would go back and refresh yourself on your college algebra and trigonometry. Knowing things like your identities and how to move things around/re-write a term algebraically is about 50% of mastering the classes. In some of the more complex differentiation and integrals later on, simplifying the equation you start with helps immensely.

My school used this for the first two years of calculus.

Best, and most commonly suggested, resource for independently studying the calculus sequence is Khan Academy.

The videos go into a great deal of detail, outline plenty of examples, and give the intuition behind all the concepts as well.

Don't just rely on the videos though; find a supplementary text book (Stewart is an excellent textbook for calculus), and do a ton of exercises. The best way to learn math is do as much math as possible.

I would assume that if you're a music major and "been good at math", you might be referring to the math of high school. In any case, it would help if you spend some time doing/reviewing calculus in parallel while you go through some introductory physics book. So here's what you could do:

• math: grab a copy of one of the following (or some similar textbook) and go through the text as well as the problems
  
  • Thomas and Finney
    
  • Stewart (older editions of this are okay since they are cheaper. I have fourth edition which is good enough).
    
• physics:
  
  • for mostly conceptual discussion of physics, Feynman lectures
    
  • for beginner level problems sets in various branches of physics, any one of the following (older editions are okay):
    
    • Halliday and Resnick
      
    • Young and Freedman
      
    • Serway and Jewett
      
    • Giancoli
      
  • for intermediate level discussion (actually you can jump right into this if your calculus is good) on mechanics , the core branch of physics, Kleppner and Kolenkow
    
    
    Other than that, feel free to google your question. You'll find good info on websites like physicsforums.com, physics.stackexchange.com, as well as past threads on this subreddit where others have asked similar questions.
    
    Once you're past the intro (i.e., solid grasp of calculus, and solid grasp of mechanics, which could take up to a year), you are ready to venture further into math and physics territory. In that regard, I recommend you look at posts by Gerard 't Hooft and John Baez.

Okay.. Someone had to do it.. right?

Statistics for business and economics ~$131.15 Used and ~$188.39 New.

Principles & Practices of Physics v1 hardcover ~$51.55 Used and ~$164.02 New.

Chemistry - The Molecular Nature... ~$124.00 Used and ~$239.87 New.

Principles & Practices of Physics v2 ~$129.74 Used and ~$126.78 New.

Differential Equations and Linear Algebra ~$79.89 Used and ~$151.29 New. I am the least sure about this book in particular. But for a wag, I'm sure the numbers will work.

Calculus - Early Transcendentals ~$86.03 Used and ~$236.81 New.

So by my calculations your current "TV Stand" cost ~$1107.16. I'd recommend you go to amazon and sell the books you probably aren't ever going to crack the cover on again for ~$602.36 and buy yourself an actual TV stand with a little money left in your pocket.

I do all this because most of my friends in college complained about the costs of text books and then never sold them again. Or did the absolutely stupidest thing you could ever do with a book you've paid over $200 for and sold them back to the bookstore for ~$20 a pop. Don't be lazy, use amazon to sell your books back and the sting of your new found education won't be so bad. The idea is to get smarter right?

I went ahead and grabbed a copy of this.

nice, we're using a book by the same guy.

I studied from reading the stewart book and looking at a ton of old midterms and finals. I think you get around 3 hours but I don't remember exactly. From what i saw people say online it's usually harder than the old finals, but for me the finals were a lot harder than the exam... so difficulty probably varies. And yeah it's formatted exactly like the old finals, like 3 or 4 free response and I want to say around 15? (big error bars) multiple choice.

I didn't take 231 but so I don't know if it's exactly the same but you def have the same amount time since everyone takes it in the same room.

Good Luck!