Practical Mathematics For Technical Students Part 1

Author : H. Leslie Mann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330126912
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book A Text-Book on Practical Mathematics written by H. Leslie Mann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Text-Book on Practical Mathematics: For Advanced Technical Students For the past nine years I have been lecturing in this subject to students taking courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the Woolwich Polytechnic, and this book is based on the work done by the senior students there. So as not to make the book too cumbersome for a text-book, a preliminary knowledge of the fundamental principles of Algebra, Trigonometry, and Mensuration, and the use of Logarithms and squared paper, has been assumed, this being well within the scope of the elementary student. The book is meant to cover a two- or three-years' course, and it is roughly divided into three sections: (1)Algebra and Trigonometry. (2) The Differential and Integral Calculus. (3) The application of the subject-matter of the two previous sections to concrete examples. The work in Section I has been carefully selected in such a way as to help the student with the later work in the Calculus. There is no doubt that after the idea of the Calculus has been thoroughly grasped, a great many of the so-called difficulties which arise out of the work are entirely due to a weakness in the knowledge of the fundamental principles of Algebra and Trigonometry. Again, many fail to integrate algebraic functions because they have such weak notions of partial fractions and simple substitutions. Section I has been written with the idea of removing this weakness. The Calculus has been treated as thoroughly as the size of the book allows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.