文档介绍：Master Math:
Pre-Calculus and Geometry
By
Debra Ross
Copyright © 1996 by Debra Anne Ross
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MASTER MATH: PRE-CALCULUS AND GEOMETRY
ISBN 1-56414-218-3
Cover design by The Visual Group
Printed in the . by Book-mart Press
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ross, Debra Anne, 1958-
Master math: pre-calculus and geometry / by Debra Anne Ross.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-56414-218-3 (pbk.)
1. Geometry. 2. Trigonometry. I. Title.
1996
515'.1--dc20 96-22994
CIP
Acknowledgments
I am indebted to Dr. Melanie McNeil, Professor of Chemical Engineering at San Jose
State University, for reviewing this text for accuracy.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Geometry 3
. Lines and Angles 4
. Polygons 10
. Triangles 13
. Quadrilaterals (Four Sided Polygons) 18
. Circles 22
. Perimeter and Area of Planar Two-Dimensional Shapes 29
. Volume and Surface Area of Three-Dimensional Objects 34
. Vectors 40
Chapter 2
Trigonometry 43
. Introduction 43
. General Trigonometric Functions 44
. Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication of Two Angles 52
. Oblique Triangles
53
. Graphs of Cosine, Sine, Tangent, Secant, Cosecant and
Cotangent 54
. Relationship Betw