Math 1060 - Trigonometry - Spring 2015

Logistics

Syllabus
Meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 11:50am in LCB 215. Office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2--3pm, or by appointment. My office is in JWB 314.

Resources

Commonly used Greek letters

Here's a list of Greek letters we'll use in our class

Letter	Name	Use
α	Alpha (lowercase)	Often used to denote angles. It looks more like a fish when I draw it on the board, to distinguish it from the letter "a".
β	Beta (lowercase)	Often used to denote angles
θ	Theta (lowercase)	Often used to denote angles
ω	Omega (lowercase)	Often used to denote angular speed

Here are some other Greek letters it's helpful to know

Δ	Delta (upper case)	Used to denote the change in some quantity
μ	Mu (lower case)	Used to denote the prefix "micro" in the metric system. For example, "μg" means "micrograms", or one millionth of a gram
ε	Epsilon (lower case)	Used in math to denote a small number. Not be confused with the symbol ϵ, which means "in".
δ	Delta (lower case)	Used to denote a small number if epsilon is already taken