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Functions and Change : A Modeling Approach to College Algebra
ISBN: 9780618643011 | 061864301X
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Pub. Date: 1/5/2006
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"Functions and Change" provides an alternative to a traditional college algebra course for students who either will not take another math course or may go on to a business calculus course. The authors wrote this text for the many college algebra students who are poorly served by books that focus on preparing them for a course they will never take--traditional calculus.An informal approach offers clear explanations that leave out unnecessary technicalities so that students who are not comfortable with algebra will easily understand the concepts.... MORE
| Note: Each chapter concludes with a Summary. Prologue: Calculator Arithmetic | |
| Functions | |
| Functions Given by Formulas | |
| Functions Given by Tables | |
| Functions Given by Graphs | |
| Functions Given by Words | |
| Graphical and Tabular Analysis | |
| Tables and Trends | |
| Graphs | |
| Solving Linear Equations | |
| So... MORE | |
| Optimization | |
| Straight Lines and Linear Functions | |
| The Geometry of Lines | |
| Linear Functions | |
| Modeling Data with Linear Functions | |
| Linear Regression | |
| Systems of Equations | |
| Exponential Functions | |
| Exponential Growth and Decay | |
| Modeling Exponential Data | |
| Modeling Nearly Exponential Data | |
| Logarithmic Functions | |
| A Survey of Other Common Functions | |
| Power Functions | |
| Modeling Data with Power Functions | |
| Combining and Decomposing Functions | |
| Quadratic Functions and Parabolas | |
| Higher-Degree Polynomials and Rational Functions | |
| Trigonometric Functions | |
| Periodic Functions | |
| Modeling Periodic Data | |
| Right Triangle Trigonometry | |
| Rates of Change | |
| Velocity | |
| Rates of Change for Other Functions | |
| Estimating Rates of Change | |
| Equations of Change: Linear and Exponential Functions | |
| Equations of Change: Graphical Solutions | |
| Mathematics of Population Ecology | |
| Population Dynamics: Exponential Growth | |
| Population Dynamics: Logistic Growth | |
| Population Structure: Survivorship Curves Brief Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises | |
| Index | |
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