Description
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Functions Modeling Change: A Preparation For Calculus Preliminary Edition by Eric Connally
The central theme of this book and course is functions as models of change. The authors emphasize that functions can be grouped into families and that functions can be used as models for real-world behavior. Because linear, exponential, power, and periodic functions are more frequently used to model physical phenomena, they are introduced before polynomial and rational functions. Once introduced, a family of functions is compared and contrasted with other families of functions.
Table of contents
Functions: An Introduction. Linear Functions. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions. Transformations of Functions. Trigonometric Functions. Composite, Inverse and Combination Functions. Polynomial and Rational Functions. Trigonometry: Vectors and Polar Coordinates. Related Topics. Appendix.