Plane Trigonometry

by E. Richard Heineman

Book Overview

This revision of a best-selling plane trigonometry text for freshmen and sophomores maintains the trademarks of clear, concise exposition coupled with graded problems. The result is a fresh and modern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0000CJFLA
• Release Date: January 1956
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Learn traditional trig methods

This book was my trig book in College. The instructor, Bill Litzmann, was famous for shunning the use of calculators and required that we work every problem with "a #2 pencil and a legal pad," just like he did. This seemed unfair at the time, but in the long run it's a good idea. That said, this book actually teaches BOTH ways of thinking about trig. It teaches a solid foundation in understanding and working trig problems without a calculator and it also has sections on how to use a calculator to solve problems. It even includes memes for memorizing things like the Sin and Cos of angles by radians. In short, I recommend learning to do trig without a calculator and using this book to do so. Especially if you plan to into multivariable calculus or upper level physics where trig is used constantly, especially in coordinate transformations and rotations.