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Fundamentals of Technical Mathematics
Fundamentals of Technical Mathematics introduces key, applied mathematics for engineering technologists and technicians. Through a simple, engaging approach, the book reviews basic mathematics, including whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, percentages, ratios, and proportions. The book covers conversions to different units of measure (standard and/or metric) and other topics as required by specific businesses and industries, providing a go-to resource on the topic. Building on these foundations, it then explores concepts in arithmetic, introductory algebra, equations, inequalities, and modeling, graphs and functions, measurement, geometry, and trigonometry, all the while supporting these concepts with practical applications in a variety of technical and career vocations, including automotive, allied health, welding, plumbing, machine tool, carpentry, auto mechanics, HVAC, and many other fields. In addition, the book provides practical examples from a vast number of technologies.
408 pages, Paperback
First published May 15, 2015
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December 21, 2016
...The scope of content is ambitious in several ways for a textbook of this level. In bringing in much material not in comparable textbooks, this makes more glaring a key exception. There is nearly a complete absence of a set theoretic basis or motivation at any point. For instance, it seems an awkward wording is the result of this avoidance for the “Definition of the solution of equation” [sic]: “A solution of equation is the numbers that produce true statement for the equation [sic].” While this disappoints, this is one of the rare textbooks I see that, especially at this level, introduces the complex plane along with complex numbers. However, why this is done a chapter ahead of introducing the rectangular coordinate system based on the reals I find elusive. In that chapter on the Cartesian coordinate system, distance formula makes an appearance but a chapter ahead of the Pythagorean Theorem. In my experience, going the other way around succeeds better with students...
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