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Professor Leonard's Calculus 1: study plan and how long it takes

The Professor Leonard playlist is 32 videos and 44.9 hours long. Here's how long it takes at different paces, a week-by-week schedule built from the real videos, and a planner that turns it into your own daily plan.

32 videos · 44.9 hours · Professor Leonard

Professor Leonard's Calculus 1 is a full college course recorded in his classroom: functions and their graphs, limits and continuity, derivatives and differentiation techniques, related rates, curve sketching and optimization, integration by substitution, the fundamental theorem of calculus, and areas and volumes.

Lectures are long, some up to three hours, but students love how carefully he explains every step.

Who it's for: College and high-school students taking Calculus 1 who want every step explained.

How long does it take?

The full playlist is 44.9 hours across 32 videos. Here's roughly how many days that is at different daily watch times and speeds, counting video time only:

Days to finish the playlist by daily watch time and playback speed
Daily timeAt 1xAt 1.5xAt 2x
30 min a day90 days60 days45 days
1 h a day45 days30 days23 days
2 h a day23 days15 days12 days

Make your own schedule

The playlist link is already filled in. Press Plan, set how much time you have each day and your speed, and you'll get a day-by-day schedule with a finish date and a calendar file. It reads the live playlist, so new videos are included.

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Week-by-week schedule

A sample plan at 2 hours a day and normal speed, using whole videos so none is split across days. That's 4 weeks in total. For a different pace, start date or speed, use the planner above.

Week 1Videos 1–8 · 11h 47m

  1. Day 1 · 49m

    • 1Calculus 1 Lecture 0.1: Lines, Angle of Inclination, and the Distance Formula49m

  2. Day 2 · 1h 37m

    • 2Calculus 1 Lecture 0.2: Introduction to Functions.1h 37m

  3. Day 3 · 1h 36m

    • 3Calculus 1 Lecture 0.3: Review of Trigonometry and Graphing Trigonometric Functions1h 20m
    • 4Calculus 1 Lecture 0.4: Combining and Composition of Functions16m

  4. Day 4 · 1h 27m

    • 5Calculus 1 Lecture 1.1: An Introduction to Limits1h 27m

  5. Day 5 · 3h

    • 6Calculus 1 Lecture 1.2: Properties of Limits. Techniques of Limit Computation3h

  6. Day 6 · 1h 27m

    • 7Calculus 1 Lecture 1.4: Continuity of Functions1h 27m

  7. Day 7 · 1h 51m

    • 8Calculus 1 Lecture 1.5: Slope of a Curve, Velocity, and Rates of Change1h 51m
Week 2Videos 9–16 · 8h 36m

  1. Day 8 · 1h 16m

    • 9Calculus 1 Lecture 2.1: Introduction to the Derivative of a Function1h 16m

  2. Day 9 · 1h 13m

    • 10Calculus 1 Lecture 2.2: Techniques of Differentiation (Finding Derivatives of Functions Easily)1h 13m

  3. Day 10 · 1h 43m

    • 11Calculus 1 Lecture 2.3: The Product and Quotient Rules for Derivatives of Functions1h 2m
    • 12Calculus 1 Lecture 2.4: Applications of the Derivative41m

  4. Day 11 · 49m

    • 13Calculus 1 Lecture 2.5: Finding Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions49m

  5. Day 12 · 1h 34m

    • 14Calculus 1 Lecture 2.6: Discussion of the Chain Rule for Derivatives of Functions1h 34m

  6. Day 13 · 1h 8m

    • 15Calculus 1 Lecture 2.7: Implicit Differentiation1h 8m

  7. Day 14 · 54m

    • 16Calculus 1 Lecture 2.8: Related Rates54m
Week 3Videos 17–25 · 11h 34m

  1. Day 15 · 1h 41m

    • 17Calculus 1 Lecture 3.1: Increasing/Decreasing and Concavity of Functions1h 34m
    • 18Calculus 1 Lecture 3.2: A BRIEF Discussion of Rolle's Theorem and Mean-Value Theorem.7m

  2. Day 16 · 1h 3m

    • 19Calculus 1 Lecture 3.3: The First Derivative Test for Increasing and Decreasing26m
    • 20Calculus 1 Lecture 3.4: The Second Derivative Test for Concavity of Functions37m

  3. Day 17 · 1h 24m

    • 21Calculus 1 Lecture 3.5: Limits of Functions at Infinity1h 24m

  4. Day 18 · 1h 33m

    • 22Calculus 1 Lecture 3.6: How to Sketch Graphs of Functions1h 33m

  5. Day 19 · 1h 35m

    • 23Calculus 1 Lecture 3.7: Optimization; Max/Min Application Problems1h 35m

  6. Day 20 · 2h 46m

    • 24Calculus 1 Lecture 4.1: An Introduction to the Indefinite Integral2h 46m

  7. Day 21 · 1h 34m

    • 25Calculus 1 Lecture 4.2: Integration by Substitution1h 34m
Week 4Videos 26–32 · 12h 59m

  1. Day 22 · 2h 7m

    • 26Calculus 1 Lecture 4.3: Area Under a Curve, Limit Approach, Riemann Sums2h 7m

  2. Day 23 · 31m

    • 27Calculus 1 Lecture 4.4: The Evaluation of Definite Integrals31m

  3. Day 24 · 2h 46m

    • 28Calculus 1 Lecture 4.5: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus2h 46m

  4. Day 25 · 1h 34m

    • 29Calculus 1 Lecture 5.1: Finding Area Between Two Curves1h 34m

  5. Day 26 · 2h 48m

    • 30Calculus 1 Lecture 5.2: Volume of Solids By Disks and Washers Method2h 48m

  6. Day 27 · 55m

    • 31Calculus 1 Lecture 5.3: Volume of Solids By Cylindrical Shells Method55m

  7. Day 28 · 2h 18m

    • 32Calculus 1 Lecture 5.4: Finding the Length of a Curve on a Plane2h 18m

Tips for finishing

  • Work every example alongside him on paper; his lectures are designed for that.
  • Long lectures get their own day in the planner, so pick a daily time you can really focus for.

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How long does it take to finish Professor Leonard's Calculus 1?

The playlist has 32 videos and 44.9 hours of content. At 1 hour a day that's about 45 days at normal speed, or 30 days at 1.5x. At 2 hours a day it's about 23 days.

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