1. Edition - July 2005
15.90 Euro
2005. 320 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 0-7645-8781-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-8781-8 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
Topics include cartesian coordinates, sines and cosines,secants and cosecants, tangents and cotangents, transforming functions, operating on identities, adding Heron's formula, and determining domain and range.

From the contents
Introduction.

Part I: Trying Out Trig: Starting at the Beginning.

Chapter 1: Tackling Technical Trig.

Chapter 2: Getting Acquainted with the Graph.

Chapter 3: Getting the Third Degree.

Chapter 4: Recognizing Radian Measure.

Chapter 5: Making Things Right with Right Triangles.

Part II: Trigonometric Functions.

Chapter 6: Defining Trig Functions with a Right Triangle.

Chapter 7: Discussing Properties of the Trig Functions.

Chapter 8: Going Full Circle with the Circular Functions.

Part III: Trigonometric Identities and Equations.

Chapter 9: Identifying the Basic Identities.

Chapter 10: Using Identities Defined with Operations.

Chapter 11: Techniques for Solving Trig Identities.

Chapter 12: Introducing Inverse Trig Functions.

Chapter 13: Solving Trig Equations.

Chapter 14: Revisiting the Triangle with New Laws.3

Part IV: Graphing the Trigonometric Functions.

Chapter 15: Graphing Sine and Cosine.

Chapter 16: Graphing Tangent and Cotangent.

Chapter 17: Graphing Cosecant, Secant, and Inverse Trig Functions.

Chapter 18: Transforming Graphs of Trig Functions.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 19: Ten Identities with a Negative Attitude.

Chapter 20: Ten Formulas to Use in a Circle.

Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Relate the Sides and Angles of Any Triangle.

Appendix: Trig Functions Table.

Index.