Using vectors as a starting point, this site demonstrates how complex numbers can be written in polar form. Several examples are included that require you to write complex numbers in polar and rectangular form and also represent them graphically.
Complex numbers are multiplied and divided using polar and exponential forms. Several examples are provided to demonstrate the process. Includes practice questions.
Using modeling, the world of quadratics is explored. Learn how to solve quadratics using methods of factoring, completing the square, and the quadratic formula. Also included are methods for graphing quadratic functions.
The laws of exponents are presented using expressions containing both positive and negative exponents. Several examples and exercises are given to help practice the concept.
How do you determine the value f a trig function? Find the answer here. This tutorial shows how to find trig values from 45-45-90 and 30-60-90 triangles, as well as how to use the calculator to find both trig values and angle measures.
Practice multiplying decimals in column form with this interactive chart. You can enter your own problems or let the site choose one for you.
This site has a skeleton with points to click on. Each click brings up information on that bone in a separate window. If the windows are resized next to each other, it's point, click, and read.
Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course. It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories, which are supported by a wealth of engaging learning materials. The textbook presents detailed section reviews with rich questions, discussions that help students apply their knowledge, and features that draw learners into the discipline in meaningful ways. The second edition retains the book’s conceptual organization, aligning to most courses, and has been significantly updated to reflect the latest research and provide examples most relevant to today’s students. In order to help instructors transition to the revised version, the 2e changes are described within the preface.
Describe the evolution and current role of different media, like newspapers, television, and new media
Understand the function of product advertising in media
Demonstrate awareness of the social homogenization and social fragmentation that occur via modern society’s use of technology and media
This website is a tutorial in how to make an on-line community newspaper. Check out the hot topics, more learning, and latest updates sections to get more instruction.
Distinguishing information from propaganda, biased reporting and misinformation is an important skill. This short article defines each of these, and provides examples of each.
Site gives the documents of the hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate Seventieth Congress on The General Pact for the Renunciation of War signed at Paris as well as the text of the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
In this activity, students will explore the Law of Large Numbers. By examining unfair models, they will expand their understanding of probability. They predict the weighting of an unfair model by analyzing experimental data and distributions. They will also formulate and test a hypothesis on the fairness of models.
By studying invention throughout history, this site encourages the inventive and creative spirit in all of us.
re:constructions is an online resource and study guide, designed to spark discussions and reflections about the media's role in covering the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath. Through discussions with students, staff, and faculty, the media's role in the wake of the attack is critically analyzed.
Students can use M&M's to model a decay equation - exponential equations.
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations of an asteroid hitting Earth are used to illustrate this widely accepted theory of dinosaur extinction and the resulting conditions that favored mammals.
A history of the world from the perspective of those who sailed the seas in great waves of exploration, from ancient times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the explorers, their ships, the tools they navigated by, and their voyages of discovery, trade, and conquest.
This interactive Java applet allows visualization of line segments and their slopes. The slope and how it is found is given for each line drawn by the user.