Preparing for College Calculus: A Guide for AP Calc Students

In summary, there are various online resources available for reviewing calculus concepts, such as online notes, lecture videos, and problem-solving tutorials. Some recommended websites include Karl's Calculus Tutor, Paul's Online Math Notes, Midnight Tutors, MIT OCW, and Khan Academy. Additionally, there are free online textbooks available, such as "Elementary Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals" by Keisler.
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I'm beginning my undergrad education this fall. I took AP Calculus in my junior year of high school. My school didn't offer any math after AP Calc and so I haven't done any calc for over a year. Does anyone know any good websites where I can go to review calculus concepts before I start college?
 
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Thanks, that is exactly the kind of site I was looking for.
 
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Any good calculus review sites?

(Moderator's note: the following 3 posts have been merged from a separate thread -- Redbelly98)

I'm going back to school and I need to know some websites that could give me a good review of calculus 1 and calculus 2. I haven't seen the stuff in two years. I could also use a physics review website too. :uhh:
 
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Yes, there are plenty. I don't know if you want single variable calculus resources only or if you also want multivariate calculus resources (in some schools calculus is 2 semesters long, so calc 1 is single variable and cacl 2 is multi/vector; whereas in some schools calculus is taught over 3 semesters), so I will list both.

If you want only notes (which might be most time efficient for review purposes), see the sites below.

Karl's Calculus Tutor: http://www.karlscalculus.org/calculus.html

Paul's Online Math Notes: http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/

Now, if you are also interested in lectures for the purposes of review, please see the following sites.

Midnight Tutors: http://www.midnighttutor.com/index.php or http://www.youtube.com/user/midnighttutor

MIT OCW Single Variable Calculus: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-01Fall-2006/VideoLectures/index.htm or http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4C4C8A7D06566F38

MIT OCW Multivariable Calculus: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-02Fall-2007/VideoLectures/index.htm or http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4C4C8A7D06566F3

Princeton Videos Lectures By Adrian Banner: http://press.princeton.edu/video/banner/

Math TV: http://www.mathtv.com/

Tutorials For The Calculus Phobe: http://www.calculus-help.com/funstuff/phobe.html

As for physics, you ought to ask for that in the appropriate section.
 
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If you are looking for some worked examples, This site helped me when I first started off:

http://justmathtutoring.com/page11.html

Although If you keep your head up and work hard you should be fine.
 
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Google the basic rules of integrals.

This really helped me to understand basically how we derive calculus differential or integral.

How can you define the volume of a sphere without actually specifying a radius?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral

Wiki pinch of salt but generally the pure maths is ok.
 
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The Khanacademy is a pretty good place for refreshing on Calculus. You can also look into MIT OCW for some advance stuff.

khanacademy.org
ocw.mit.edu
 

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