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Martha Goshaw’s Concepts of Calculus with Applications is the next generation of calculus textbook for the next generation of students and instructors Martha is a new kind of textbook author, drawing from her many successful years in the classroom to bring calculus to life. This text is written in Martha’s natural classroom voice, using a cheerful, student-friendly presentation to engage non-majors in the modern applied calculus course. With her deep knowledge of how students think and study, Martha’s approach helps students with every homework assignment and exam, with ample algebra review before every topic and multiple types of study tools. Now for the first time ever, MyMathLab^® makes available a wide array of online homework, tutorial, and assessment tools, making the most of both students’ and instructors’ time.

KEY TOPICS: Function review, Limits and Derivatives, Applications of the Derivative, The Integral and its Applications, Multivariable Calculus.

MARKET: For all readers interested in Calculus

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Calculus: The Language of Change is an innovative new introductory textbook that blends reform and traditional approaches with a focus on understanding calculus as its own language With accessible writing and presentation, the book allows students to gradually understand the language -- first by reviewing vocabulary, and then quickly moving to present calculus conceptually, computationally, and theoretically. Within this framework, derivatives and integrals are developed side-by-side, coverage of theory is offered at various knowledge levels, and computing devices are incorporated generically. The text features seamless integration between chapters and numerous cross-disciplinary examples and applications, which gives instructors flexibility for shaping their course. A full range of student and instructor resources make Calculus: The Language of Change an outstanding course package..
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Based on a streamlined presentation of the authors' successful work Linear Systems, this textbook provides an introduction to systems theory with an emphasis on control. The material presented is broad enough to give the reader a clear picture of the dynamical behavior of linear systems as well as their advantages and limitations. Fundamental results and topics essential to linear systems theory are emphasized. The emphasis is on time-invariant systems, both continuous- and discrete-time.

Key features and topics:

* Notes, references, exercises, and a summary and highlights section at the end of each chapter.

* Comprehensive index and answers to selected exercises at the end of the book.

* Necessary mathematical background material included in an appendix.

* Helpful guidelines for the reader in the preface.

* Three core chapters guiding the reader to an excellent understanding of the dynamical behavior of systems.

* Detailed coverage of internal and external system descriptions, including state variable, impulse response and transfer function, polynomial matrix, and fractional representations.

* Explanation of stability, controllability, observability, and realizations with an emphasis on fundamental results.

* Detailed discussion of state-feedback, state-estimation, and eigenvalue assignment.

* Emphasis on time-invariant systems, both continuous- and discrete-time. For full coverage of time-variant systems, the reader is encouraged to refer to the companion book Linear Systems, which contains more detailed descriptions and additional material, including all the proofs of the results presented here.

* Solutions manual available to instructors upon adoption of the text.

A Linear Systems Primer is geared towards first-year graduate and senior undergraduate students in a typical one-semester introductory course on systems and control. It may also serve as an excellent reference or self-study guide for electrical, mechanical, chemical, and aerospace engineers, applied mathematicians, and researchers working in control, communications, and signal processing.

Also by the authors: Linear Systems, ISBN 978-0-8176-4434-5.

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One of the most fundamental and active areas in mathematics, the theory of partial differential equations (PDEs) is essential in the modeling of natural phenomena. PDEs have a wide range of interesting and important applications in every branch of applied mathematics, physics, and engineering, including fluid dynamics, elasticity, and optics.

This significantly expanded fourth edition is designed as an introduction to the theory and applications of linear PDEs. The authors provide fundamental concepts, underlying principles, a wide range of applications, and various methods of solutions to PDEs. In addition to essential standard material on the subject, the book contains new material that is not usually covered in similar texts and reference books, including conservation laws, the spherical wave equation, the cylindrical wave equation, higher-dimensional boundary-value problems, the finite element method, fractional partial differential equations, and nonlinear partial differential equations with applications.

Key features include:

* Applications to a wide variety of physical problems in numerous interdisciplinary areas

* Over 900 worked examples and exercises dealing with problems in fluid mechanics, gas dynamics, optics, plasma physics, elasticity, biology, and chemistry

* Historical comments on partial differential equations

* Solutions and hints to selected exercises

* A comprehensive bibliography—comprised of many standard texts and reference books, as well as a set of selected classic and recent papers—for readers interested in learning more about the modern treatment of the subject

Linear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers, Fourth Edition will primarily serve as a textbook for the first two courses in PDEs, or in a course on advanced engineering mathematics. The book may also be used as a reference for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in modern applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and engineering. Readers will gain a solid mathematical background in PDEs, sufficient to start interdisciplinary collaborative research in a variety of fields.

Also by L. Debnath: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers, Second Edition, ISBN 0-8176-4323-0.

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Vacation Home Fractional Conversion is a fresh approach for a changing real estate market. This groundbreaking book will take the reader from a fractional ownership neophyte to a level where Fractional Ownership Specialist can be aptly applied. Whether you are a real estate professional, a home builder, a vacation home owner or simply dreaming of owning a vacation home... this book will give you a solid understanding of fractional ownership and fractional conversion in laymen s terms. Vacation Home Fractional Conversion deftly covers exactly what the title says: converting vacation homes to fractional ownership homes. It takes the approach that the reader is part of the 99.8% of the population that does not have a firm understanding of fractional ownership and seeks to explain what fractional ownership is, how it has evolved, where it is going and how it can be used effectively in a number of situations to provide flexibility, increase profits and attract buyers..
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I just finished reading this book and found that it filled in many inconsistencies that I have noted in my mainstream economic study. The author explains clearly and concisely the origins of and money and its importance to any economic system. He proceeds to describe the evolution of banking to its current inflationary state. He clearly shows that this inflationary states results from a combination of fractional reserve banking, the government's grant of monopoly powers through a cental bank (the U.S. Federal Reserve in the case of the U.S.), and the central banks open market operations to manipulate bank reserves (e.g., monetizing debt).

I found this book to be the most interesting and revealing book I have ever read about the banking system and the Federal Reserve. He explains how fractional reserve banking makes banks inherently prone to bankruptcy, how the Federal Reserve and other central banks create inflation, and how money has evolved and been debased..
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This practical reference offers a unified approach to phase-lock technology, spanning large and small signal-to-noise applications It takes you from continuous-time systems through hybrid time-sampled systems to fractional-N synthesis techniques. The book also looks at bit-synchronization in the context of phased-lock loop methods. You find expanded coverage of frequency synthesis that examines techniques used to develop RFICs for WiMAX and WCDMA applications.

The book includes numerous computer simulation techniques that enable you to analyze phase-locked systems and create accurate simulation methods for noise. You get a precise, detailed explanation at Delta-Sigma techniques that give you a clearer understanding of fractional-N synthesis and let you develop your own Delta-Sigma methods. Moreover, this unique resource gives you new insight into how phase noise affects bit-error rate and the performance of transmitters and receivers. More than 1,500 equations and figures support key topics throughout the book.

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CD-ROM contains practical tools to aid in the design process such as Visio figures and Matlab code for nearly all the mathematical plots in the book..
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Multivariable regression models are of fundamental importance in all areas of science in which empirical data must be analyzed This book proposes a systematic approach to building such models based on standard principles of statistical modeling. The main emphasis is on the fractional polynomial method for modeling the influence of continuous variables in a multivariable context, a topic for which there is no standard approach. Existing options range from very simple step functions to highly complex adaptive methods such as multivariate splines with many knots and penalisation. This new approach, developed in part by the authors over the last decade, is a compromise which promotes interpretable, comprehensible and transportable models..
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This book presents both fundamentals and the state of the art of PLL synthesizer design and analysis techniques. A complete overview of both system-level and circuit-level design and analysis are covered. A 16mW, 2.4GHz, sub-2V, Sigma Delta fractional-N synthesizer prototype is implemented in 0.35m m CMOS. It features a high-speed and robust phase-switching prescaler, and a low-complexity and area-efficient loop capacitance mulitplier, which tackle speed and integration bottlenecks of PLL synthesizer elegantly.

This book is conceived as a PLL synthesizer manual for both academia researchers and industry design engineers.

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