Which AP Calculus BC book to teach yourself?

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<p>Which AP Calculus book do you guys recommend to teach yourself the BC material?</p>

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<p>I’d like to know as well. I bought the Barron’s Calculus AB/BC book. I’m hoping that’ll be good enough.</p>

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<p>Petersons…I’d never recommend anything else. It’s an amazing book for self-studying, though it helps (of course) to have a textbook for extra practice problems as well.</p>

<p>I took an AB class last year and self-studied the BC topics from Petersons, and it was unbelievably simple. The one thing it didn’t really cover well enough was (if I remember correctly) vector analysis problems, but that’s easy enough to pick up from old AP problems or a textbook. It really presents the topics in a clear, manageable way, and avoids getting bogged down by mathematical precision or proofs, as some books do.</p>

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<p>petersons and princeton</p>

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<p>I had a Barrons book. It was so confusing. Pricenton is much better.</p>

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<p>skatearabia - Are you talking about this book - <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Master-Ap-Calculus-Ab-Petersons/dp/0768924707/sr=8-1/qid=1169284222/ref=sr_1_1/103-6783531-1274260?ie=UTF8&s=books[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Master-Ap-Calculus-Ab-Petersons/dp/0768924707/sr=8-1/qid=1169284222/ref=sr_1_1/103-6783531-1274260?ie=UTF8&s=books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Or this book - <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Petersons-AP-Calculus-AB-BC/dp/0768918278/sr=8-2/qid=1169284222/ref=sr_1_2/103-6783531-1274260?ie=UTF8&s=books[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Petersons-AP-Calculus-AB-BC/dp/0768918278/sr=8-2/qid=1169284222/ref=sr_1_2/103-6783531-1274260?ie=UTF8&s=books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Stewart’s Calculus, or Thomas’s Calculus and Analytic Geometry. Don’t blow off the material by using a test prep book to learn it. You need a real textbook (buy them used on Amazon so they don’t cost $100). Remember, this is material that you WILL NEED in college. If you blow it off now, and you pass out of it later, you’ll start failing your higher courses, and that’s never fun.</p>

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<p>my school uses the Calculus book by Demana. it’s an ok book, pretty challenging but in a good way. i second fizix’s advice- bu a textbook and skip the review book, or just borrow a review book from teh library. the text is more worthy of your $$.</p>

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<p>if anyone wants, I can provide them with the Stewart’s Calculus 4th Edition with the solution manual but the problem is that it’s an EBOOK but all the pages, problems, solutions are there and its free. I also have Tom Apostol’s Calculus I and II in ebook format if anyone wants. It would be nice if anyone can provide me with something in return. Like released AP Biology, AP US History, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Physics C released exams (multiple choice) or other Ebooks. Just anything useful.</p>

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<p>We use Stewart’s Early Transcendentals Calc Book. Sometimes the explanations are weird, but the example problems help a lot! Also, there is so many practice problems it’s crazy!</p>

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<p>If you really desire a challenge you can get the Calculus by M. Spivak.</p>

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<p>Stewart’s Calc book is really good and it is used in many colleges for Single and Multi-Variable Calculus courses.</p>