Pre-Calculus For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119508779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str.

Yang Kuang; Elleyne Kase

Opis

Get ahead in pre-calculus Pre-calculus courses have become increasingly popular with 35 percent of students in the U.S. taking the course in middle or high school. Often, completion of such a course is a prerequisite for calculus and other upper level mathematics courses.

Spis treści

Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Pre-Calculus 5Chapter 1: Pre-Pre-Calculus 7Chapter 2: Playing with Real Numbers 19Chapter 3: The Building Blocks of Pre-Calculus Functions 31Chapter 4: Operating on Functions 49Chapter 5: Digging Out and Using Roots to Graph Polynomial Functions 69Chapter 6: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions 97Part 2: The Essentials of Trigonometry 117Chapter 7: Circling in on Angles 119Chapter 8: Simplifying the Graphing and Transformation of Trig Functions 149Chapter 9: Identifying with Trig Identities: The Basics 181Chapter 10: Advanced Identities: Your Keys to Success 201Chapter 11: Taking Charge of Oblique Triangles with the Laws of Sines and Cosines 223Part 3: Analytic Geometry and System Solving 243Chapter 12: Plane Thinking: Complex Numbers and Polar Coordinates 245Chapter 13: Creating Conics by Slicing Cones 263Chapter 14: Streamlining Systems, Managing Variables 295Chapter 15: Sequences, Series, and Expanding Binomials for the Real World 327Chapter 16: Onward to Calculus 351Part 4: The Part of Tens 367Chapter 17: Ten Polar Graphs 369Chapter 18: Ten Habits to Adjust before Calculus 375Index 383

O autorze

Mary Jane Sterling aught algebra, business calculus, geometry, and finite mathematics at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years. She is the author of several For Dummies books, including Algebra Workbook For Dummies, Algebra II For Dummies, and Algebra II Workbook For Dummies.