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I supplies extra problems that you need in order to learn or review trig problems. This book is excellent for a supplement to another book.
I relied on it as a backup and a good check on the work being covered in class. I used Schaum's for a Summer School Trigonometry course. It doesn't replace a textbook but it covered all the necessary topics effectively and provided a good alternative to derivations and problems found in the text.
This book is definately not for a beginner or someone who's looking for an easy quick overview after being away from the subject for abotu 6 years. At certain times magic equations would pop out of thin air and you would have to stew over them for hours at a time trying to figure out what the heck they meant. I needed to brush up on my Trig for a calculus class that I'm currently in. While reading the text I found it hard to follow what the author was getting at.
Everyone should have this. Trigonometry is hard, and is mentioned and applied almost everywhere. This book is comphrehensive and is both easy and advanced. I am observing that my test scores on tests on tests involving trigonometery are increasing, thanks to this thin aid. You can have knowledge of math, science, and computers with it. That is almost impossible. It is thin, yet it is good. This book is one of the best created.
This book as mentioned in the title is horrible. The book very briefly describes aspects of each periodic function in a somewhat scattered manner. In many cases the book does little more than introduce the topic and give somewhat bland math questions. Now back to the incompleteness.
how. All of the information that is given fits on about one 8 1/2 X 11 piece of paper, somewhat terse isn't it. For a more comprehensive edition of a trigonometry tutorial you must turn elsewhere because this book will leave you asking what. Perhaps one of the better trigonometry titles out there, and believe me I say this reluctantly because it is also deplorable, is Trigonometry the Easy Way. huh. It is incomplete in many areas, case and point, curve graphing.
This book is not for beginners and is most likely not even for people that would like to brush up on trigonometry. In conclusion if you have this book return it or if you can't use it only as a way to reinforce trigonometry ideas. This book will not help you through a normal course because it is somewhat babified. Half-way through the book trigonometric function graphs are introduced (y=sinx and so on).
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