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基本説明
The ideal text for equipping students with the knowledge and skills to tackle the mathematical aspects of a science course with confidence.
Full Description
Maths is a tool for representing and investigating the nature of the real world: it can simplify the huge complexity of natural processes, enabling us to make predictions and test assumptions. Without maths, the process of scientific enquiry would quickly stall. Yet, for many, maths is seen as a daunting, theory-filled subject, with little relevance to the real world.
Maths for Science overturns these misconceptions by providing a confidence-boosting overview of essential mathematical skills and techniques. With examples and practice problems throughout, it shows in a clear, unintimidating style why maths is so important to the study of science, and encourages you to develop the essential skills for yourself.
Building from the foundations of maths - numbers, fractions, and units and scales of measurement - the book leads you through a range of widely-used skills and concepts, including the handling of equations, logarithms, and the essentials of differentiation, probability and statistics, to provide a complete course of essential maths for science.
Online Resource Centre
For registered adopters of the text:
- Figures from the book in electronic format
For students:
- Additional exercises, with solutions, to supplement those in the book itself
- A flashcard glossary to help you master the essential terminology
Contents
1. Starting points ; 2. Measurement in science ; 3. Calculating in science ; 4. Unit conversions ; 5. Algebra ; 6. Putting algebra to work ; 7. Graphs and gradient ; 8. Rate of change and differentiation ; 9. Angles and trigonometry ; 10. Logarithms ; 11. Probability and descriptive statistics ; 12. Statistical hypothesis testing
