Trigonometry For Dummies

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A plain-English guide to the basics of trig Trigonometry deals with the relationship between the sides and angles of triangles ... mostly right triangles. In practical use, trigonometry is a friend to astronomers who use triangulation to measure the distance between stars. Trig also has applications in fields as broad as financial analysis, music theory, biology, medical imaging, cryptology, game development, and seismology. From sines and cosines to logarithms, conic sections, and polynomials,…

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Full title :Trigonometry For Dummies / by Mary Jane Sterling.

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Publication Date:2014
Edition:2nd edition

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Publisher(s):John Wiley & Sons
Place of Publication:Hoboken, NJ
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:1 online resource (387 pages)

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ISBN:9781118827468, 1118827465, 9781118827574, 1118827570, 1118827414, 9781118827413
oclc:ocn870587664
LC Classification:QA531 .S783 2014
Dewey Decimal:516.24

At a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with Trigonometry; Chapter 1: Trouncing Trig Technicalities.; Taking Trig for a Ride: What Trig Is; Understanding Trig Speak; Equating and Identifying; Graphing for Gold; Chapter 2: Coordinating Your Efforts with Cartesian Coordinates.; Starting Out Simple: Plotting Points; From Here to There: Calculating Distances; Getting to the Center of It All; Racing Down the Slope; Defining Circles with Numbers.

Chapter 3: Functioning Well. Relations versus Functions; In-Verse Functions: Rhyme or Reason?; Transforming Functions; Chapter 4: Getting Your Degree.; Angles, Angles Everywhere: Measuring in Degrees; Graphing Angles in Standard Position; What's Your Angle? Labeling in Various Ways; Chapter 5: Dishing Out the Pi: Radians.; What's in a Radian?; Making a Clone of Arc; Chapter 6: Getting It Right with Triangles.; Sizing Up Right Triangles; Pythagoras Schmythagoras: Demystifying the Pythagorean Theorem; In a League of Their Own: Special Right Triangles; Part II: Trigonometric Functions.

Chapter 7: Doing Right by Tri…