Re: A few questions for you guys...


antonioetayo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Teja: Thanks, man. Thats a damn good site.

ABarlow: Yes, I realize everyone has to practice a little bit when it
comes to mathematics. But you know how highschool books have a way of
taking it painfully slow to progress through the subjects in a horribly
dry manner, without elaborating much into concepts. But I suppose if
they're the only source its ok.

I think I understand what you mean, and there probably are better books
out there than what you'd find at your average high school. I guess
part of the problem is that exactly what "grade 12 math" is will vary
from country to country because different places have different
curriculums, so I don't really know what you already know and what
would be new to you (and I'm just not as familiar with textbooks from
this grade level as university texts anyway).

For the record, my university offers a precalculus course which uses a
book by Mark Dugopolski called Fundamentals of Precalculus. I don't
know if the text is any good or not because I have never used it, but
that's what they use. I've been trying to track down a syllabus, but
haven't had any luck. Looking through Amazon.com though, I did notice
that Mark Dugopolski has written a lot of books on algebra,
trigonometry and precalculus material that is supposedly geared toward
colleges/universities, so that might be a good starting point. For that
matter, since you aren't keen on the high school texts, it might be
worth your while to look up some high calibre universities and see what
text they are using for a precalculus type of course. I would suspect
that the texts they use are probably a little more advanced than your
average high school text and probably moves at a faster pace. Who
knows, some of the texts might even be good, too.

This is just an aside, but at the website below, there are some really
fabulous, very in-depth studies of a variety of physics topics. They
are probably a lfairly advanced compared to what you're looking for,
but the treatment of some topics (classical mechanics in particular) is
probably better than any text I've ever used.

http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca/~tatum/

Cheers,

A.

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