Tom Schulte teaches mathematics at Oakland Community College in Michigan and is a software engineer at Plex Systems. On the teaching side of the podium, I have already found it a helpful place to draw from for supplemental and engaging class material. Created by NASA for high school students interested in space science, this collection of worked problems covers a broad range of subjects, including mathematical aspects of NASA missions, computation and measurement, algebra, geometry, probability and. Too broad in scope to be a textbook, it can serve as a helpful adjunct over several pre-calculus courses in mathematics and physics. While this text can be illustrative for high school students and a good resource for teachers, this can also serve as a review of fundamentals for undergraduates majoring in science and engineering fields. Order a Space Mathematics: (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) today from WHSmith. These applications of eccentricity include transformation between polar and Cartesian coordinates as well as orbital velocity. For conic sections there are more interesting applications of eccentricity than I have seen in any textbook at the same level. The space science “story problems” come mostly from high school and first-year undergraduate algebra, with contributions from geometry, probability, matrices, linear regression, trigonometry, and conic sections. Problems are presented with solutions immediately following and some blank pages for computations. This NASA-created collection of pre-calculus mathematical problems is set up in a workbook format.
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