Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus

Book excerpt: This tried-and-true text from Allyn Washington builds on the author's highly regarded approach to technical math, while enhancing its pedagogy with full-colour figures and boxes that warn students of Common Errors. Appropriate for a two- to three-semester course, Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus shows how algebra, trigonometry and basic calculus are used on the job. KEY TOPICS: Basic Algebraic Operations;Geometry;Functions and Graphs;Trigonometric Functions;Systems of Linear Equations; Determinants;Factoring and Fractions; Quadratic Functions;Trigonometric Functions of Any Angle;Vectors and Oblique Triangles;Graphs of Trigonometric Functions;Exponents and Radicals;Complex Numbers;Exponents and Logarithmic Functions;Additional Types of Equations and Systems of Equations;Equations of Higher Degree;Matrices; Systems of Linear Equations;Inequalities;Variation;Sequences and The Binomial Theorem;Additional Topics in Trigonometry;Plane Analytic Geometry;Introduction to Statistics;The Derivative; Applications of the Derivative;Integration;Applications of Integration;Differentiation of Transcendental Functions;Methods of Integration;Partial Derivatives and Double Integrals;Expansion of Functions in Series;Differential Equations MARKET: Appropriate for Technical Mathematics courses.