June 2014
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
8h 24m
English
Content preview from Calculus For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Part II
Warming Up with Calculus Prerequisites
Find out about determining volume using a calculus technique that works like those nested Russian dolls at www.dummies.com/extras/calculus.
In this part …
- Algebra review: Richard Feynman, the great 20th century physicist, said (tongue-in-cheek) that calculus was the language that God spoke. Well, I don’t know about that, but I do know that algebra is the language of calculus. If you want to learn calculus, you’ve got to know your algebra.
- Logarithm review: What’s log 10? And ln 1? Hint for the first one: It’s the loneliest number. Hint for the second: There’s nothing to it.
- Function review: Even and odd functions, exponential functions, inverse functions, function transformations, and so on.
- Some trig: The all-important unit circle. And the related geometry of the 30˚-60˚-90˚ and 45˚-45˚-90˚ triangles.
- More trig: SohCahToa and the graphs of sine, cosine, and tangent.
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