General Physics Math Skills Drills and Other Useful Help, Calculus Version Preparing for Arnold D. Pickar(Oxiginal Edition estided Preparing for General Phsics: Math Skits Drs And Other Useful Help, Caleuhs Version, First Edition, by Pickar, Amold D., published by Pearson Fucation, Ine, publishing as Addison- Wesley, Copyright © 1993, Indian editin published by Dorting Kindersley India Pvt.Ltd. Copyright © 2012 Al rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the contin that it shall not. by way of tae ‘otherwise, be fen, esol, hired out or oberwise civculated without the publisher's prior writen ‘consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which itis published and withoat a similar ‘condition inciuding this condion being imposed on the subsequent purchaser and withou lining the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of ts putlicatim may be reproduced, stored in or Ingroduced imo areieval sysiem, or transmit in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying recording or olperwise). without the prior written pennissin ofboth the copyriht ‘over and the abowe-mentioned publisher of ths book. ISBN 978-81-317-6327-8 First Impression, 2012 This edition x manufactured in India and is authorized for sale only in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan. Pakisiar, Nepal, Sei Lanka and the Maldives. Circulation ofthis elition ouside ofthese territories ie UNAUTHORIZED. Published by Doeting Kinderdoy (ladia) Pt Ltd, leonstes of Pearson Education in South Asin Head Office: 7th Floor, nowiedge Boulevard, A-B(A) Seetor-52, Noida (U.P) 201309, Ini Registered Office: 11 Cormmnity Cente, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110017, India Printed in India by india Binding Howse, NoidaTable of Contents To the Instructor _v or - Round I— Words and Numbers 1 PRETEST 1 Review 1 — Dealing with Numbers 3 asa Da Review 2 — Units to Go with the Numbers 13 Skil Dril'2 17 Review 3 — Words, Symbols, and Pictures 23 Skil Drill 3-7 POSTTEST 33 ESSAY: Why Is Physics so "Mathematical" 35 Round Il — Nature at Its simplest: Linear behavior 37 PRETEST 37 Review 4— Proportion and Ratio 39 Skill Drill 443 Review 5— Linear Equations 49 ‘Skill Drill 5 Review 6 — Rearranging Equations: Basic Algebra 57 Skill Drill 6 61 Review 7 — Simultaneous Linear Equations 67 Skill Del 771 POSTTEST 7 ESSAY: Two Remarkable Proportions of Professor Newton 79 Round III — Dealing with Space 81 81 Bev &— Game L Decing and Daving 83 ‘Skill Drill 8 Review 3 Geometry 1, Angles, Shape, and Size ” Skill Drill 9 95 Review 10 — Trigonometry I: Mostly Right Triangles 103 Skill Drill 10 _107 Review 11 — Tr Qther les and Applications 113 17 POSTTEST 121 ESSAY: We Live ina Three-Dimensional World — Don't We? 123