Required textbook

Homework problem assignments and daily readings will be from:

• Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals Vol 1 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Sixth Edition, Thompson Brooks/
  Cole, 2007. Ppaperback.  ISBN 0-495-48312-5.
  
  It is essential that you get this new Sixth Edition.

You will also need to buy access to the WebAssign on-line homework system. The access code you used for Math 131 will not work for Math 132, so you will need a new one.

If you bought the textbook + WebAssign “bundle” (also called “package”) for Math 131, then you may already have a second, unused WebAssign access coupon. Otherwise, if you already own the textbook but no second coupon, just buy WebAssign access. If you don’t, then buy the textbook+WebAssign bundle.

.You may be able to buy a WebAssign coupon at the Textbook Annex; that’s cheaper than buying access on-line.

You do not have to buy the SSM (Student Solutions Manual) or any other ancillaries.

Calculator

You should have access to a suitable graphing scientific calculator for homework and all of the exams except Exam 2.

See the Calculator skills page for information on what you need to know how to do with your calculator. 

Recommended: the Texas Instruments TI-89 Titanium.  If you’re buying a new calculator, this is the one to get. It will do symbolic manipulations common in calculus and assist you with certain paper-and-pencil calculations.

The main limitation of TI calculators with model numbers below 89 is their symbolic capabilities. For Math 132, you’ll surely want a calculator that can find indefinite integrals symbolically, in order to check your paper-and-pencil work; according to the TI web site, TI models 83 through 86 cannot do that.

If you insist upon using some other graphing scientific calculator, you do so “at your own risk”: Even if you bring along the instruction book, there is no guarantee that your instructor or TA can help you with such a calculator’s use.