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Trigonometry

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ISBN-10: 1564145271

ISBN-13: 9781564145277

Edition: 2003

Authors: Debra Anne Ross

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Master Math: Trigonometry is written for students, teachers, tutors, and parents, as well as for scientists and engineers who need to look up principles, definitions, explanations of concepts, and examples pertaining to the field of trigonometry. Trigonometry is a visual and application-oriented field of mathematics that was developed by early astronomers and scientists to understand, model, measure, and navigate the physical world around them.
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication date: 7/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Debra Anne Ross has a double BA in Chemistry and Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.

Introduction
Review of Numbers and Coordinate Systems
Review of numbers, including natural, whole, integers, zero, rational, irrational, real, complex, and imaginary numbers
Absolute value
Significant digits and rounding numbers and decimals
Review of coordinate systems, including two- and three-dimensional rectangular coordinates, polar coordinates, cylindrical coordinates, and spherical coordinates
Chapter 1 summary and highlights
Review of Geometry
Introduction
Lines and angles
Triangles
Polygons and quadrilaterals
Conic sections, including circles, arcs and angles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas
Three-dimensional objects, including cubes, rectangular solids, cylinders, spheres, cones, and pyramids
Chapter 2 summary and highlights
Triangles and Trigonometric Functions
Right triangles and the trigonometric functions
Solving right triangles
Examples and applications of right triangles
Oblique triangles and the Law of Sines and Law of Cosines
Solving oblique triangles
Examples and applications of oblique triangles
Finding the area of a triangle
Chapter 3 summary and highlights
Trigonometric Functions in a Coordinate System and Circular Functions
Review of functions and their properties
Types of functions, including composite, inverse, linear, nonlinear, even, odd, exponential, logarithmic, identity, absolute value, squaring, cubing, square root, cube root, reciprocal, and functions with more than one variable
Coordinate systems, radians, degrees, and arc length
Angles in standard position and coterminal angles
The trigonometric functions defined in a coordinate system in standard position, quadrant signs, and quadrantal angles
Reference angles and reference triangles
Native angles
Reciprocal functions and cofunction relationships
Circular functions and the unit circle
Linear and angular velocity
Chapter 4 summary and highlights
Graphs of Trigonometric and Circular Functions and their Periodic Nature
Circular motion
Graphs of sine and cosine
Transforming graphs of sine and cosine through changes in amplitude, period, and vertical and horizontal shifting
Applications of sinusoids
Graphs of secant and cosecant
Graphs of tangent and cotangent
Chapter 5 summary and highlights
Inverse Trigonometric Functions
Review of general inverse functions
Inverse trigonometric functions
Inverse sine and inverse cosine
Inverse tangent
Inverse cotangent, inverse secant, and inverse cosecant
Chapter 6 summary and highlights
Trigonometric Identities
Summary of identities
Quotient identities and reciprocal identities
Pythagorean identities
Negative number/angle identities
Verifying trigonometric identities
Sum and difference of angles/numbers identities, also called addition and subtraction identities
Cofunction identities
Supplementary angle relations
Double-angle/number identities
Half-angle identities
Product-to-sum identities
Sum/difference-to-product identities
Squared formulas
Chapter 7 summary and highlights
Trigonometric Functions in Equations and Inequalities
Review of solving algebraic equations
Review of solving algebraic quadratic equations
Review of solving algebraic inequalities
Solving algebraic equations and inequalities using graphing
Introduction to solving trigonometric equations and inequalities
Solving simple trigonometric equations using standard position angles, reference triangles, and identities
Solving trigonometric equations involving powers using factoring, a unit circle, and identities
Solving trigonometric equations and inequalities using the quadratic formula, identities, unit circles, factoring, and graphing
Estimating solutions to trigonometric equations and inequalities using graphing
Chapter 8 summary and highlights
Trigonometric Functions and Vectors
Definitions of vectors
Representing vectors in terms of their components in a coordinate system
Representing vectors in terms of their components in a coordinate system using the unit vectors i, j, and k
Addition and subtraction of vectors
Simple vector problems
Multiplying a vector with a scalar
Dot or scalar products
Vector or cross product
Chapter 9 summary and highlights
Trigonometric Functions In Polar Coordinates and Equations, and Parametric Equations
Polar coordinates defined
Converting between rectangular and polar coordinate systems and equations
Graphing polar equations
Parametric equations
Chapter 10 summary and highlights
Complex Numbers and The Complex Plane
Complex numbers defined
The complex plane in rectangular form
Addition and subtraction of complex numbers in rectangular form
Complex numbers in polar form and the complex plane
Converting between rectangular and polar form
Multiplication and division of complex numbers in rectangular and polar forms
Powers and roots of complex numbers
Chapter 11 summary and highlights
Relationships Between Trigonometric Functions, Exponential Functions, Hyperbolic Functions and Series Expansions
Relationships between trigonometric and exponential functions
Background: summary of sequences, progressions and series, and expanding a function into a series
Hyperbolic functions
Chapter 12 summary and highlights
Spherical Trigonometry
Definitions and properties
Measuring spherical triangles
The Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines for spherical triangles for calculating sides and angles
Celestial sphere
Chapter 13 summary and highlights
Index