Book description
Building off the success of Zill and Dewar's popular Essentials version, the new Sixth Edition of Precalculus with Calculus Previews continues to include all of the outstanding features and learning tools found in the original text while incorporating additional topics of coverage that some courses may require. With a continued effort to keep the text complete, yet concise, the authors have included four additional chapters making the text a clear choice for many mainstream courses. Additional chapters include a new chapter on Polar Coordinates, as well as Triangle Trigonometry, Systems of Equations and Inequalities, and Sequences and Series.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Inequalities, Equations, and Graphs
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Chapter 2 Functions
- 2.1 Functions and Graphs
- 2.2 Symmetry and Transformations
- 2.3 Linear Functions
- 2.4 Quadratic Functions
- 2.5 Piecewise-Defined Functions
- 2.6 Combining Functions
- 2.7 Functions Defined Implicitly
- 2.8 Inverse Functions
- 2.9 Building a Function from Words
- 2.10 The Tangent Line Problem
- Chapter 2 Review Exercises
- Chapter 3 Polynomial and Rational Functions
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Chapter 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 The Limit Concept Revisited
- Chapter 4 Review Exercises
- Chapter 5 Triangle Trigonometry
- Chapter 6 Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
- Chapter 7 Conic Sections
- Chapter 8 Polar Coordinates
- Chapter 9 Systems of Equations and Inequalities
- Chapter 10 Sequences and Series
- Final Examination
- Appendixes
- Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Problems
- Index
Product information
- Title: Precalculus with Calculus Previews, 6th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2015
- Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
- ISBN: 9781284077308
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