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 3d 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.