Precalculus

An oscilloscope often displays a sawtooth curve.This curve can be approximated by sinusoidal curves of varying periods and amplitudes. (a) […]

See the illustration. If a charged capacitor is connected to a coil by closing a switch, energy is transferred to

An object of mass m (in grams) attached to a coiled spring with damping factor b (in grams per second)

Use a graphing utility to graph the sound emitted by the * key on a Touch-Tone phone. See Problem 57.

A sailboat leaves St. Thomas bound for an island in the British West Indies, 200 miles away. Maintaining a constant

An object of mass m attached to a coiled spring with damping factor b is pulled down a distance a

Rebecca, the navigator of a ship at sea, spots two lighthouses that she knows to be 2 miles apart along

Sketch the graph of each of the following functions:  (a) y = x  (b) y = x2 (c) y =

A projectile fired into the first quadrant from the origin of a coordinate system will pass through the point (x,

The steepness of sand bunkers on a golf course is affected by the angle of repose of the sand (a