<p>I'm about to be done with multivariable calc and I'd like to ditch my calc tomes and get a more unified calc reference, for cheap. Can anybody recommend one? While I'm at it, can anybody recommend a good physics reference? If there are no bona fide reference books then I'll just get a dirt-cheap, ten-year-old textbook instead, but I'd like to have one volume where I can quickly look up integration tables, various methods and formulas.</p>
<p>Or does this not seem very necessary? You engineering and science majors further down the road can tell me. Did you keep your math texts or not?</p>
<p>But if you’re not interested in that, you could find an old version of Stewart’s calculus. I got mine for dirt cheap, something like 4 dollars on amazon (I have the 4th edition). Physics is hard to say because you want to have a reference for the highest level you’ll be at. It’s difficult to say whether you’ll need a principles of physics book for frosh/soph. year level with only calculus in it, classical mechanics and such with DE’s, and then there’s the ones that deal with the advanced ODE’s and PDE’s and other crazy stuff.</p>
<p>So yeah. Hard to say. I guess that isn’t too helpful, but I tried to do what you’re doing now and I kind of wish I hadn’t spent my money on these textbooks when I had PDFs of them already but ‘wanted a solid copy for easy reference’. Stupid idea if you ask me. I guess it’ll be different if you’re going to be an engineer, but you’d want engineering books, not physics books.</p>
<p>and great reference physics books depends on your ability/area of interest. i could recommend jackson’s electrodynamics, but you’d probably need a phd in physics to understand all of it.</p>
<p>EDIT: Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Arfken and Weber. (semi-graduate level?)
great reference. no… soul? just use it as a reference…</p>
<p>While I can’t recommend a good physics reference book, I know of a small (<1000 pgs), cheap (<$20 on Amazon) calculus book that covers from Calc I to III. The book is called “Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach” (Morris Kline). It also includes seven tables in the back that cover the following:</p>
<p>I. Formulas of Geometry and Trigonometry
II. Degrees to Radians
III. Radians to Degrees
Iv. Natural Trig Functions
V. Natural Logarithms of Numbers–00 to 99
VI. values of e^x and e^-x
VII. Tables of Integrals (which is what you said you’re looking for)</p>
<p>Here are its product details, courtesy of Amazon:
Paperback: 960 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; 2 edition (June 19, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486404536
ISBN-13: 978-0486404530
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds</p>
<p>This book also contains exercises, the answers to which can be found online for free PDF download (legal, open source) if you type in the book name and “solutions manual” with it. I think it’s through google books but I can’t remember for sure.</p>
<p>It’s been two years since I’ve taken a calculus course, and I’m reviewing this book right now to prepare for graduate school. It should be required reading in all calc courses!
Hope that helps!</p>