Pre-Calculus For Dummies

Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Pre-Calculus 5Chapter 1: Pre-Pre-Calculus 7Chapter 2: Playing with Real Numbers 19Chapter 3: The Building Blocks of Pre-Calculus Functions 31Chapter 4: Operating on Functions 49Chapter 5: Digging Out and Using Roots to Graph Polynomial Functions 69Chapter 6: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions 97Part 2: The Essentials of Trigonometry 117Chapter 7: Circling in on Angles 119Chapter 8: Simplifying the Graphing and Transformation of Trig Functions 149Chapter 9: Identifying with Trig Identities: The Basics 181Chapter 10: Advanced Identities: Your Keys to Success 201Chapter 11: Taking Charge of Oblique Triangles with the Laws of Sines and Cosines 223Part 3: Analytic Geometry and System Solving 243Chapter 12: Plane Thinking: Complex Numbers and Polar Coordinates 245Chapter 13: Creating Conics by Slicing Cones 263Chapter 14: Streamlining Systems, Managing Variables 295Chapter 15: Sequences, Series, and Expanding Binomials for the Real World 327Chapter 16: Onward to Calculus 351Part 4: The Part of Tens 367Chapter 17: Ten Polar Graphs 369Chapter 18: Ten Habits to Adjust before Calculus 375Index 383