Precalculus with Calculus Previews

by Zill, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9781449645151
• ISBN10: 1449645151
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-27
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Building off the success of Zill and Dewar's popular Essentials of Precalculus with Calculus Previews, Fifth Edition, this Expanded Volume includes all the outstanding features and learning tools found in the original text 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter1 Inequalities, Equations, and Graphs
Chapter2 Functions
Chapter3 Polynomial and Rational Functions
Chapter4 Trigonometric Functions
Chapter5 Triangle Trigonometry
Chapter6 Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Chapter7 Conic Sections
Chapter8 Polar Coordinates
Chapter9 Systems of Equations and Inequalities
Chapter10 Sequences and Series
AppendixA Complex Numbers
AppendixB Descartes' Rule of Signs
AppendixC Formulas from Geometry
Unit Answers to Selected Odd-Number Problems