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by ivansavz 1582 days ago
> publishers today care mostly about sabotaging second hand market by constantly changing exercises and order of subject from one edition to another

Yeah I know what you mean! Eight edition is the same as seventh, but with random permutation of problem sets, just enough so you can't use for class assignment. I once had a teacher who would give us the inverse permutation to make it easy for students to use the older edition, but he was the exception...

Why do you want to learn calculus? If it's for review/fun, I'd like to recomment the MECH+CALC book that I wrote. It's not free, but very cheap. See preview here https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmathphys_v5_pr... Currently v5.4. I've been treating the problem sets as an append-only list so numbers are "backward compatible" with older versions.

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This looks terrific, thank you! I just browsed the PDF, every single page that I looked at is useful content. Just for example, the page with the graphs of position, speed, and acceleration. I'll be honest with you, though. I understand the need to market and be edgy, but the profanity is completely out of place and is a factor in me not buying the book for my teenage daughters. I teach them to present themselves with dignity, and I would be undermining that education by introducing a profane book.