Some of the topics that this book addresses are: Vector spaces; finite-dimensional vector spaces; differential calculus; compactness and completeness; scalar product space; differential equations; multilenear functionals; integration; differentiable manifolds; integral calculus on manifolds; exterior calculus.

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An open-source textbook covering vector calculus, ordinary and partial differential equations, and Fourier series. The textbook is used in a first-year graduate level course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. It undergoes extensive revisions annually, but is relatively complete.

Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning. The book guides students through the core concepts of calculus and helps them understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. Due to the comprehensive nature of the material, we are offering the book in three volumes for flexibility and efficiency. Volume 2 covers integration, differential equations, sequences and series, and parametric equations and polar coordinates.

Our writing is based on three premises. First, life sciences students are motivated by and respond well to actual data related to real life sciences problems. Second, the ultimate goal of calculus in the life sciences primarily involves modeling living systems with difference and differential equations. Understanding the concepts of derivative and integral are crucial, but the ability to compute a large array of derivatives and integrals is of secondary importance. Third, the depth of calculus for life sciences students should be comparable to that of the traditional physics and engineering calculus course; else life sciences students will be short changed and their faculty will advise them to take the 'best' (engineering) course.

This 10-minute video lesson provides an introduction to 2nd order, linear, homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 13 of 45]

This 8-minute video lesson continues the discussion from the previous video and shows how to find the general solution. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 14 of 45]

This 6-minute video lesson continues the discussion from the previous videos and introduces some initial conditions to solve for the particular solution. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 15 of 45]

This 9-minute video lesson continues the discussion from the previous videos and provides another example using initial conditions. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 16 of 45]

This 10-minute video lesson looks at what happens when the characteristic equations has complex roots. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 17 of 45]

This 10-minute video lesson continues the discussion of what happens when the characteristic equation has complex roots. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 18 of 45]

This 10-minute video lesson concludes the series on complex roots of characteristic equations and demonstrates an example with initial conditions. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 19 of 45]

This 18-minute video lesson provides an introduction to the Dirac Delta Function. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 41 of 45]

This 12-minute video lesson gives the first example of solving an exact differential equation. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 6 of 45]

This 8-minute video lesson provides some more examples of exact equations. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 7 of 45]

This 10-minute vidoe lesson provides one more exact equation example [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 8 of 45]

This 10-minute video lesson provides intuiton on exact equations including the chain rule using partial derivatives (not a proof; more intuition). [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 4 of 45]

This 11-minute video lesson provides more intuitive building blocks for exact equations. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 5 of 45]

This 7-minute video lesson provides an introduction to first order homogenous equations. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 11 of 45]

This 8-minute video lesson provides another example of using substitution to solve a first order homogeneous differential equations. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 12 of 45]

This 10-minute video lesson uses an integrating factor to make a differential equation exact. [Differential Equations playlist: Lesson 9 of 45]