Introduction
This book is intended as a refresher course for scientists, engineers, and technicians. It begins with a review of basic calculation techniques and progresses through intermediate topics in applied mathematics. This edition contains new or revised material on scientific notation, geometry, trigonometry, vectors, coordinate systems, logarithms, exponential functions, propositional logic, truth tables, statistics, and probability.
You’ll notice that some of the discussions, especially in the early chapters, deal with archaic units such as feet and pounds. This isn’t sheer madness or nostalgia for the olden days; there is a reason for it! The unfamiliarity (and in some cases strangeness) of these “English” units can help you more fully ...