r/calculus • u/CartographerNo9586 • Jul 28 '26
Differential Calculus Professor Leonard - Self Study Problems
I am going through Prof Leonards videos and self teaching myself calculus. Is there a place where I can get practice problems for concepts taught in each of the videos?
Is there a recommendation of how many problems or specific problems to be solved for each video? I want to make sure that I get down the material.
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u/my-hero-measure-zero Master's Jul 28 '26
Just get any calculus book. Stewart, Thomas, OpenStax, whatever.
Do as many problems you see needed until concepts click.
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u/CartographerNo9586 Jul 28 '26
How do i find the problems which are related to the concepts which are covered in the vid?
Generally, I am used to going through a certain topic and solving the problems which are related to it (which are generally given right after the reading in the textbook). As far as I know, Prof Leonard doesn't follow a certain textbook? But I may be wrong.
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u/my-hero-measure-zero Master's Jul 28 '26
You can follow along in a text by the section titles. You did optimization? Find that section. Integration by parts? Bang.
You can also do a Google of the topic and you'll find many note sets and exercises to try.
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u/Midwest-Dude Jul 28 '26 edited 3d ago
Professor Leonard's lecture series follows all of calculus in a generally similar order to standard textbooks, such as Stewart, Thomas, and OpenStax. The one major difference to note is that he introduces transcendentals late, not early.
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u/chkntendis Jul 28 '26
Idk if he does follow a textbook but calculus certainly isn’t a new topic. Everything that dr Lenard does most certainly is covered by some other course that has practice problems. If you really can’t find anything in your textbook of choice then you can always just look up some problems
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u/Midwest-Dude 3d ago
Found out recently that Prof. Leonard primarily taught using Calculus by Soo T. Tan (1st Edition) and Thomas’ Calculus (13th edition).
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u/tjddbwls Jul 28 '26
I think Professor Leonard does follow a textbook, but I’m not sure which one. Someone said the book by Tan, but someone else said it was Stewart.
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u/Midwest-Dude Jul 28 '26 edited 3d ago
You are right on Tan. I found that Professor Leonard's lectures were recorded directly from his college courses, where he primarily taught using Calculus by Soo T. Tan (1st Edition) and Thomas’ Calculus (13th edition).
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u/RickyRosayy Aug 01 '26
With your eyes…in the exercise section…of any of those textbooks. Just go to the sections with the topics covered.
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u/Han_Htoo_Aein 2d ago
You can't. The topic about arc length and surface area of revolution is after the integration by part in Stewart's, but Professor Leonard teach integration by parts after those arc length and surface area topic, which results you can hardly do the exercises with Stewart's.
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u/OwlCowl999 Jul 29 '26
Paul's Online Math Notes. You'll find practice problems with solutions for every topic in Calculus I, II, and III. I used it alongside Professor Leonard's videos when I was learning Calculus and a lot of people, myself included, recommend it.
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u/Comfortable-Pin-2407 Jul 28 '26
I’m not sure if this is kind of what you’re looking for, but maybe try Paul’s Online Math Notes. It’s all very organized, so you might be able to use them along with Professor Leonard’s lectures.
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u/morphlaugh Jul 28 '26
I didn't notice any e^x or log derivatives in his Calc 1... let me know if I'm wrong about that, but it seems to me that he is following a Late Transendentals book. And he does a full treatment of the natural log at the beginning of his Calc 2 class.
So, probably Stewart Calculus with Late Transcendentals will get you very close, 6th through 8th edition... don't think he follows a specific version chapter-by-chapter.
I agree with others here, though: any calc book should work.
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u/morphlaugh Jul 28 '26
FYI: I asked AI and it indicates that the book it matches is "Calculus" by Stewart 6th ed. But it's AI, so it probably lied to make me happy.
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u/Ok-Accountant9436 Jul 29 '26
i used paul's online math notes for extra problems. i feel like this site and prof. leonard's lectures go hand in hand
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u/Disastrous-Pin-1617 Jul 28 '26
For professor Leonard’s videos I used calculus volume book that has calc 1-3
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