Get ready to fill your head with triangles On the long road of mathematics, you'll eventually need to stop in trig town. Trigonometry For Dummies shows you around, following the trajectory of a typical high school or college trig course. Get to know the basics like right triangles and radians, then find your away around functions, identities, and equations. Map it all out with complete coverage of graphing trig functions. Before long, you'll feel like a trigonometry native, thanks to the easy-to-follow examples and explanations. Inside. * Cartesian coordinates and planes * All about trig functions and inverse trig functions * Pi and radians, explained * Proving and solving identities * Graphing sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, and more

Mary Jane Sterling is the author of Algebra I For Dummies, Pre-Calculus Workbook For Dummies, Algebra II For Dummies, and oodles of other Dummies titles. She was a Professor of Mathematics at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, for more than 35 years, teaching algebra, business calculus, geometry, and finite mathematics.

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