Trigonometry For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Trigonometry For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling
About This Book
A plain-English guide to the basics of trig
Trigonometry deals with the relationship between the sides and angles of triangles... mostly right triangles. In practical use, trigonometry is a friend to astronomers who use triangulation to measure the distance between stars. Trig also has applications in fields as broad as financial analysis, music theory, biology, medical imaging, cryptology, game development, and seismology.
From sines and cosines to logarithms, conic sections, and polynomials, this friendly guide takes the torture out of trigonometry, explaining basic concepts in plain English and offering lots of easy-to-grasp example problems. It also explains the "why" of trigonometry, using real-world examples that illustrate the value of trigonometry in a variety of careers.
- Tracks to a typical Trigonometry course at the high school or college level
- Packed with example trig problems
- From the author of Trigonometry Workbook For Dummies
Trigonometry For Dummies is for any student who needs an introduction to, or better understanding of, high-school to college-level trigonometry.
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Getting Started with Trigonometry
- Become acquainted with angle measures and how they relate to trig functions.
- Discover formulas that provide lengths of segments, midpoints, and slopes of lines.
- Become familiar with circles and the relationships between radii, diameters, centers, and arcs.
- Relate infinitely many angle measures to just one reference angle.
- Find a simple conversion method for changing from degrees to radians and vice versa.
- Observe the properties of special right triangles, and use the Pythagorean theorem to formulate the relationships between the sides of these right triangles.