Technical Mathematics With Calculus

John C. Peterson

Cengage Learning, 2004 - Mathematics - 1613 pages

This version of Technical Mathematics with Calculus, 3E includes formal calculus concepts that are comprehensive in scope to help students prepare for technical, engineering technology, or scientific careers. Thorough coverage of precalculus topics provides a solid base for the presentation of more formal calculus concepts later in the book. This edition retains its easy-to-understand writing style and offers myriad application-oriented exercises and examples that will help students learn to use mathematics and technology in situations related to their future work. A companion web page has additional material for both faculty and students.

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Contents

• The Real Number System: 1
• Algebraic Concepts and Operations: 62
• Geometry: 111
• Building Design: 169
• An Introduction to Trigonometry: 230
• Chip Away: 270
• Factoring and Algebraic Fractions: 314
• Vectors and Trigonometric Functions: 356
• Roll Em: 396
• Graphs of Trigonometric Functions: 449
• Where Will It Fall?: 503
• Exponential and Logarithmic Functions: 534
• Statistics and Empirical Methods: 575
• Do You Want Fries?: 614
• An Introduction to Plane Analytic Geometry: 661
• Higher Degree Equations: 725
• Systems of Equations and Inequalities: 753
• Matrices: 786
• Shaping Up: 817
• Trigonometric Formulas Identities and Equations: 855
• Roller Coasters: 884
• An Introduction to Calculus: 886
• The Derivative: 926
• Applications of Derivatives: 975
• Integration: 1028
• Derivatives of Transcendental Functions: 1125
• Techniques of Integration: 1166
• Parametric Equations Vectors: 1218
• Sound Out: 1254
• Infinite Series: 1325
• Lake Levels: 1355
• HigherOrder Differential Equations: 1398
• Numerical Methods and Laplace Transforms: 1422
• APPENDIX A The Metric System: 1452
• APPENDIX B Table of Integrals: 1462
• INDEX OF APPLICATIONS: 1596

About the author

John C. Peterson, Ph.D., is a retired professor of mathematics at Chattanooga State Technical Community College, where he received the college's Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Peterson is a past vice president of the American Mathematical Association for Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) and was co-director of the AMATYC project on Mathematics for the Emerging Technologies funded by the National Science Foundation. He also authored the project report, A Vision: Mathematics for the Emerging Technologies. Among Dr. Peterson's 90 professional publications are the textbooks TECHNICAL MATHEMATICS and INTRODUCTORY TECHNICAL MATHEMATICS. Dr. Peterson holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Northern Iowa and a doctor of philosophy degree in mathematics education from The Ohio State University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Technical Mathematics With Calculus; Applied Mathematics Series
• Author: John C. Peterson
• Edition: 3, illustrated
• Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2004
• ISBN: 0766861899, 9780766861893
• Length: 1613 pages
• Subjects: Mathematics / Applied