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Electricity and Electronics for Renewable Energy Technology
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Electricity and Electronics for Renewable Energy Technology

by Ahmad Hemami
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
824 pages
22h 58m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Electricity and Electronics for Renewable Energy Technology

2Basic Mathematics and Systems of Measurement Units

OBJECTIVES: After studying this chapter, you will be able to

  • Describe the applications of ratios and percentage
  • Define the relationships between angles and sides in a right triangle
  • Use trigonometric functions in finding angles and lengths in a geometric shape
  • Explain the importance of measurement systems
  • Define the principal units of measure in U.S. customary and metric systems
  • Describe and determine the units of measure for most common entities in terms of the principal units of measure
  • Convert units between imperial and metric systems for many common entities
  • Extract formulas for calculating any variable from a relationship between several variables

New terms: Cosine, cotangent, sine, ...

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ISBN: 9781482261783