Just-In-Time Algebra and Trigonometry for Early Transcendentals Calculus

by Guntram Mueller and Ronald Brent

Book Overview

Are you ready to ace calculus at the college level? With this book, you will be Professors often say "Students don't fail the calculus, they fail the algebra." In other words, even if you understand calculus, your algebra and trigonometry skills can hold you back. Here's a quick quiz--do you remember how to: Factor trinomials? Solve equations containing exponents and logs? Work with inverse trig functions? If not, that's where this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321671031
• ISBN13: 9780321671035
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Quick Delivery

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Excellent for a review, of little value for learning.

If you have previously studied and largely understood algebra and trigonometry and just need a quick review, then this book is right for you. However, if you haven't studied these topics or didn't understand them the first time, then it will be of little value. The coverage is thorough in breadth, starting with the basics of adding and subtracting all types of numbers through logarithms, exponential functions and trigonometry. Only a few pages are devoted to each topic with exercises at the end of each section. Solutions to some of the exercises are given at the end, although in my opinion there should have been more. While the explanations are short, to the extent that it is possible in a small number of pages, they are through in depth. In a section that I found interesting, the dy/dx notation for a derivative is used. However, knowledge of calculus is not required, the reader is simply being asked to algebraically solve for dy/dx rather than use any knowledge of what it represents. Used in the manner for which it was intended this book is an effective tool in the study of precalculus material. Note: This book is nearly identical to the companion book, "Just-In-Time: Algebra & Trigonometry for Calculus." It would be a waste of money to buy both.