Essential Maths for Engineering and Construction : How to Avoid Mistakes.
"Don't let your mathematical skills fail you! In Engineering, Construction, and Science examinations, marks are often lost through carelessness or from not properly understanding the mathematics involved. When there are only a few marks on offer for a part of a question, there may be full...
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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; PART I: Finding the pitfalls; 1 Introduction; 2 Find an independent check; PART II: Misleading with mathematics; 3 When ink meets paper; 4 Juggling with numbers; 5 False assumptions and false logic; 6 Lies, damned lies and statistics; PART III: Some mistakes that we make; 7 Errors in arithmetic; 8 Errors in algebra; 9 Errors in trigonometry; 10 Calculator errors; 11 Bad notation; 12 Errors in calculus; 13 Test yourself; Glossary; Index.