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Calculus: Concepts and Contexts (Metric International Edition) (4th Edition)
Calculus Concepts and Contexts - Metric International Edition - 4th Edition Author:James Stewart Stewart's Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, Fourth Edition offers a streamlined approach to teaching calculus, focusing on major concepts and supporting those with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. Calculus: Concepts and Contexts is highly regarded because this text offers a balance of... more » theory and conceptual work to satisfy more progressive programs as well as those who are more comfortable teaching in a more traditional fashion. Each title is just one component in a comprehensive calculus course program that carefully integrates and coordinates print, media, and technology products for successful teaching and learning.
This Metric International Edition differs from the regular version of Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, Fourth Edition, in several ways.
The units used in almost all of the examples and exercises have been changed from US Customary units to metric units. There are a small number of exceptions: In some engineering applications (principally in Section 6.6) it may be useful for some engineers to be familiar with US units. And the author wanted to retain a few exercises (for example, those involving baseball) where it would be inappropriate to use metric units.
The examples and exercises involving real-world data were changed to be more international in nature, so that the vast majority of them now come from countries other than the United States. For example, there are now exercises and examples concerning Hong Kong postal rates; Canadian public debt; unemployment rates in Australia; hours of daylight in Ankara, Turkey; isothermals in China; percentage of the population in rural Argentina; populations of Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico, and India; and power consumption in Ontario, among many others.
In addition to changing exercises so that the units are metric and the data have a more international flavor, a number of other exercises have been changed as well, the result being that about 10% of the exercises are different from those in the regular version.« less