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|a Palmer, Paul I.
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|a Essential Maths for Geoscientists
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|b An Introduction.
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|a Intro -- Essential Maths for Geoscientists -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 How Do You Know that Global Warming Is Not a Hoax? -- The Earth system: how do we know what we know? -- 2 Preamble -- 2.1 The scientific method: pushing back the frontiers of ignorance -- 2.2 Subscript and superscripts -- 2.3 Scientific number format -- 2.4 Significant figures and rounding numbers -- 2.5 Units and dimensions -- Unit conversion -- 2.6 Symbols and numbers -- 2.7 Mean, median and variance: commonly encountered statistics -- 2.8 Guesstimation -- 2.9 Exercises -- 3 Algebra -- 3.1 Introduction
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|a 3.2 Evaluating algebraic equations -- 3.2.1 Preamble: symbols and numbers -- 3.2.2 Powers, roots and bases -- 3.3 Simplifying algebraic equations -- Removing brackets -- 3.4 Factorization -- 3.4.1 Factorizing quadratic equations -- 3.5 Transposing formulae -- 3.6 Word problems -- 3.7 Exercises -- 4 Solving Equations -- 4.1 Solving linear equations -- 4.1.1 Graphically -- 4.1.2 Analytically -- 4.2 Solving simultaneous equations -- 4.3 Solving quadratic equations -- 4.3.1 Square roots -- 4.3.2 Completing the square -- 4.4 Exercises -- 5 Logarithms and Exponentials -- 5.1 Exponentials
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|a 5.2 Logarithms -- 5.2.1 Logarithm laws -- 5.2.2 Solving exponential equations -- 5.2.3 Power laws and scaling exponents -- 5.3 Log-normal and log-log plots: when and how to use them -- 5.4 Exercises -- 6 Uncertainties, Errors, and Statistics -- 6.1 Errors -- 6.1.1 Important definitions -- 6.1.2 Measures of error -- 6.2 Combining errors -- 6.2.1 Equations with one variable -- 6.2.2 Equations with two or more variables -- 6.2.3 Linear equations -- 6.2.4 Products -- 6.2.5 Combining results of different experiments -- 6.5 Exercises -- 6.3 Statistics -- 6.3.1 Graphs -- 6.3.2 Descriptive statistics
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|a 6.4 Correlations -- 6.5 Exercises -- 7 Trigonometry -- 7.1 Some geoscience applications of trigonometry -- 7.2 Anatomy of a triangle -- 7.3 Angles: degrees and radians -- 7.4 Calculating angles given a trigonometric ratio -- 7.5 Cosine and sine rules for non-right-angled triangles -- 7.6 Exercises -- 8 Vectors -- 8.1 What is a vector? -- 8.2 Resolving a vector -- 8.3 Vector algebra -- 8.3.1 Adding and subtracting vectors -- 8.3.2 Multiplying a vector by a scalar -- 8.3.3 The resultant of two perpendicular vectors -- 8.4 Resolving non-perpendicular vectors -- 8.5 Exercises
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|a 9 Calculus 1: Differentiation -- 9.1 A graphical interpretation of differentiation -- 9.2 A general formula for differentiation -- 9.3 The derivative of some common functions -- 9.4 Differentiation of the sum and difference of functions -- 9.5 Higher derivatives -- 9.6 Maxima and minima -- 9.7 Exercises -- 10 Calculus 2: Integration -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Definite integrals -- Area under a curve -- 10.3 Numerical integration -- 10.4 Exercises -- 11 Bringing It All Together -- A Answers to Problems -- A.1 Chapter 2: Preamble -- A.2 Chapter 3: Algebra -- A.3 Chapter 4: Solving Equations
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