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• Instructor: Prof. Sullivan
• Office: 465 Neckers (Satellite View)
• E-mail: msulliva at math siu edu
• Phone: 453-6517
• Office Hours: MWF 10:00-10:45 Th 10:00-12:00
• Class time & location: MWF, 10:00-10:50 a.m. in Engineering A 322
• Textbook: Algebra and Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry, 10^th Ed., by Swokowski & Cole. You do not need a CD of any other supplemental materials. If any are bundled to your textbook, ask the bookstore to remove them and give you a lower price.

• you can study the Greek alphabet,
• or you could learn to use your calculator correctly and accurately.
• And be sure to review your algebra!
• You can read a head here.

• Course Policies
• Homework Assignments
• Homework Guidelines
• Classroom Etiquette
• Unit Circle: Radians & Degrees
• Challenge Problems (No outside help!) This is an external link to a page maitained by Richard Egge who works in privative industry. You should turn in your solutions to me in class.
• Basic Trig Table (MSWord Document)

Some optional reading

• Learn about Latitude and Longitude from this NASA site.
• Find the Latitude and Longitude of your home town.
• Google Earth
• An amazing hexagon!
• How Archimedes found the area of a circle

Trigonomtery in the News!

• Can Math Settle a Fight over Fish Size?
  From National Public Radio, Weekend Edition, Saturday, August 12, 2006.
  The National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame wants to resolve a dispute over the size of a fish hailed since 1949 as a world-record holder. Three photos and geometry techniques may establish the actual length of the Muskie. Stanford professor Keith Devlin, Weekend Edition math expert, tells Scott Simon how math might resolve the quarrel.
• Watch out villains! The police are studying trigonomety!