Engineering Mathematics is the best-selling introductory mathematics text for students on science and engineering degree and pre-degree courses. Sales of previous editions stand at more than half a million copies. It is suitable for classroom use and self-study. Its unique programmed approach takes students through the mathematics they need in a step-by-step fashion with a wealth of examples and exercises. The book is divided into two sections with the Foundation section starting at Level 0 of the IEng syllabus and the main section extending over all elements of a first year undergraduate course. The book therefore suits a full range of abilities and levels of access. The accompanying CD-ROM acts as a personal tutor guiding students through exercises in the same step-by-step fashion as the book, with hundreds of full workings to questions.
STUDENT AND LECTURER SUPPLEMENTS
Companion Website at www.palgrave.com/stroud: Features applications and questions for each chapter where the maths from the book is used in engineering contexts. This motivates students, especially the more reluctant who cannot always see the point of the maths. The questions occasionally suggest the use of algebraic packages (software that does stages of the maths for you like a complicated calculator - all universities have a system). These questions are relevant to all types of packages, not specific to one. Students can work through themselves or lecturers can print off for class/homework use. PowerPoint lecturer slides featuring the headings and subheadings from the book, plus Learning Objectives and key definitions and all figures and graphs. Also included are photos of the engineering contexts for where the maths is relevant, to create a lively, applied opener to each chapter/programme. The site also provides web-links to other useful sites
PART I Foundation Topics
Arithmetic
Introduction to algebra
Expressions and equations
Graphs
Linear equations and simultaneous Linear equations
Polynomial equations
Partial fractions
Trigonometry
Binomial series
Differentiation
Integration
Functions
PART II
Complex numbers 1
Complex number 2
Hyperbolic functions
Determinants
Matrices
Vectors
Differentiation
Differentiation applications 1
Differentiation applications 2
Partial differentiation 1
Partial differentiation 2
Curves and curve fitting
Series 1
Series 2
Integration 1
Integration 2
Reduction formulas
Integration applications 1
Integration applications 2
Integration applications 3
Approximate integration
Polar coordinates systems
Multiple integrals
First-order differential equations
Second-order differential equations
Introduction to Laplace transforms
Statistics
Probability,
Answers
Index
K.A. STROUD, formerly Principal Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University), UK. He is also the author of Foundation Mathematics and Advanced Engineering Mathematics, companion volumes to this book.
DEXTER J. BOOTH, formerly Principal Lecturer in the School of Computing and Engineering at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the author of several mathematics textbooks and is co-author on Foundation Mathematics and the fourth edition of Advanced Engineering Mathematics.