Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus, SI Version, Canadian Edition, 11th edition

The student-friendly, acclaimed best seller in technical math

This tried-and-true text from Allyn Washington builds on the author's highly regarded approach to technical math, while enhancing its pedagogy with full-colour figures and boxes that warn students of Common Errors. Appropriate for a two- to three-semester course, Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus, SI Edition shows how algebra, trigonometry and basic calculus are used on the job. It covers applications in a vast number of technical and pre-engineering fields, including statics, electronics, solar energy, laser fiber optics, acoustics, fluid mechanics, and the environment. Known for its exceptional problem sets and applied material, the book offers practice exercises, writing exercises, word problems and practice tests. The SI Version is enhanced with a mix of Canadian and global examples, a reorganized Statistics chapter and updated notation that reflects standard engineering practice in industry.

Hallmark features of this title

• Practice Exercises. Throughout the text, there are practice exercises in the margin. They are included so that a student is more actively involved in the learning process and can check his or her understanding of the material to that point in the section. They can also be used for classroom exercises. The answers to these exercises are given at the end of the exercise set for the section.
• Chapter Introductions. Each chapter introduction illustrates specific examples of how the development of technology has been related to the development of mathematics. These introductions show that past discoveries in technology led to some of the methods in mathematics, whereas in other cases mathematical topics already known were later very useful in bringing about advances in technology.
• Special Explanatory Comments. Throughout the book, special explanatory comments in colour have been used in the examples to emphasize and clarify certain important points. Arrows are often used to indicate clearly the part of the example to which reference is made.

New and updated features of this title

• Increased breadth of applications The text features many new applications in the examples and exercises. Here is a sampling of the contexts for these new applications:
• Indigenous culture (Sections 2.4, 2.6, and 21.3)
• Height of One World Trade Center (Section 4.4)
• Multimedia messaging by Canadians (Section 5.1)
• Rounding. This edition returns to the round half up rule for rounding measured values.
• Functional Use of Colour. The text continues to use colour effectively for didactical purposes. New to this edition is the use of colour within equations to emphasize an important step in a procedure. For example, students can identify visually how one expression is replaced by another equivalent one when both expressions are written in the same colour.