Functions Modeling Change: A Preparation for Calculus, Preliminary Edition - Hardcover

Connally, Eric; Gleason, Andrew M.; Cheifetz, Philip; Mueller, William; Shure, Pat; Thrash, Karen R.; Hughes–Hallett, Deborah; Avenoso, Frank; Hillyer, Jo Ellen; Pasquale, Andrew; Swenson, Carl; Yoshiwara, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047131787X ISBN 13: 9780471317876

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047131787X
• ISBN 13: 9780471317876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 624