Book description
Incorporating Zill's student-friendly writing style and modern examples, Precalculus with Calculus Previews, Fifth Edition includes all of the outstanding features and learning tools found in the original text, Essentials of Precalculus with Calculus Previews, while incorporating additional coverage that some courses may require. With a continued aim to keep the text complete, yet concise, the authors added four additional chapters making the text a clear choice for many mainstream courses. This student-friendly, four-color text offers numerous exercise sets and examples to aid in students' learning and understanding, and graphs and figures throughout serve to better illuminate key concepts. The exercise sets include engaging problems that focus on algebra, graphing, and function theory, the sub-text of so many calculus problems. The authors are careful to use the terminology of calculus in an informal and comprehensible way to facilitate the student's successful transition into future calculus courses. - Includes a new chapter, - Provides a "no nonsense" approach to precalculus with an informal, intuitive, and straightforward writing style. - Incorporates the terminology used in calculus in an informal way to acclimate students to these new terms. - Includes over 1600 figures to help illuminate key concepts. - Notes from the Classroom sections address a variety of student/textbook/classroom/calculus issues such as alternative terminology, reinforcement of important concepts, tips on memorization, misinterpretations, common errors, solution procedures, calculators, and advice on the importance of neatness and organization. - Calculus Previews conclude each chapter and highlight a single calculus concept with a focus on the algebraic, logarithmic, and trigonometric manipulations necessary for successfully completing the problem. Translating Words into Functions illustrates how to translate a verbal description into a symbolic representation of a function.Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Inequalities, Equations, and Graphs
- 2 Functions
- 3 Polynomial and Rational Functions
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4 Trigonometric Functions
- 4.1 Angles and Their Measurement
- 4.2 The Sine and Cosine Functions
- 4.3 Graphs of Sine and Cosine Functions
- 4.4 Other Trigonometric Functions
- 4.5 Verifying Trigonometric Identities
- 4.6 Sum and Difference Formulas
- 4.7 Product-to-Sum and Sum-to-Product Formulas
- 4.8 Inverse Trigonometric Functions
- 4.9 Trigonometric Equations
- 4.10 Simple Harmonic Motion
- 4.11 Calculus Preview: The Limit Concept Revisited
- Chapter 4 Review Exercises
- 5 Triangle Trigonometry
- 6 Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
- 7 Conic Sections
- 8 Polar Coordinates
- 9 Systems of Equations and Inequalities
- 10 Sequences and Series
- Final Examination
- Apppendix A: Complex Numbers
- Apppendix B: Descartes’ Rule of Signs
- Apppendix C: Formulas from Geometry
- Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Problems
- Index
- Credits
Product information
- Title: Precalculus with Calculus Previews, 5th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2012
- Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
- ISBN: 9781449645168
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