ABOUT BOOK

This is an online textbook for a one semester calculus course aimed at business students.The material covered is fairly standard: differentiation and integration without trigonometry, partial derivatives and optimization of functions of several variables.There are several characteristics that differentiate the text from other texts:Excel is used as the main computational engine throughout the text and the needed Excel skills are taught rather than assumed.Examples, exercises, and vocabulary are tailored to uses in a business curriculum.There is a modeling thread throughout the text.Webwork versions of exercises are available on request.