Math is an important part of everyday life and an integral part of the skills necessary to become certified in the safety profession. Many who pursue certification have long since completed their college math courses and have not actively pursued the math skills they once had. Background Math provides the basics necessary to successfully negotiate the math included on the certification exams, as well as a handy primer for those who already have their credentials. Topics include calculator use, strategies for examinations and hierarchy for operations, fractions, exponents, roots and logarithms and antilogs, systems of measurement, applied algebra, geometry, and more. Also includes a section on abbreviations and symbols used. Recommended by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals for candidates preparing to take the examinations for the Certified Safety Professional designation.
Author: Glenn Young
ISBN: 978-1885581457
Format: Paperback
Publisher: American Society of Safety Engineers
Copyright: 2003
Pages: 201
About the Author
Glenn Young, CSP, is a consultant who specializes in quantitative and semi-quantitative risk analysis, including layers of protection analysis (LOPA) and event-tree analysis, in addition to system safety instrumentation services. He is also the lead editor of Applied Mathematics for the Safety Professional (ASSE).
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE: CALCULATOR SELECTION AND USE
1.1 B.C.S.P. Rules for Calculators
1.2 Calculator Hierarchy of Operations
1.3 Calculator Strategies for Examinations
CHAPTER TWO: FRACTIONS, ETC.
2.1 Representing Fractions as Decimals or Percents
2.2 Multiplying Fractions
2.3 Dividing Fractions
2.4 Adding and Subtracting Fractions
2.5 Reciprocals
2.6 Proportions
2.7 Rounding
2.8 Absolute Value
CHAPTER THREE: EXPONENTS, ROOTS, AND LOGS
3.1 What Is an Exponent?
3.2 Rules of Exponents
3.3 What Is a Root?
3.4 Logarithms and Antilogs
CHAPTER FOUR: SYSTEMS OF MEASUREMENT
4.1 English Units
4.2 Metric Units
4.3 Other Measurement Systems
4.4Conversions
4.5 Dimensional Analysis
CHAPTER FIVE: SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING NOTATION
5.1Scientific Notation
5.2 Engineering Notation
CHAPTER SIX: ALGEBRAIC PROPERTIES AND SIMPLE EQUATIONS
6.1 Variables
6.2 Commutative Properties
6.3 Associative Properties
6.4 Distributive Property
6.5 Factoring
6.6 Multiplying Polynomials
6.7 Order of Operations
6.8 Rules of Equations
6.9 Solving Equations with a Variable on One Side
6.10 Solving Equations with Variables on Both Sides
6.11 Solving Equations with Multiple Variables
6.12 Solving Simultaneous Equations
6.13 Proportions
CHAPTER SEVEN: APPLIED ALGEBRA
7.1 Sets, Subsets, and Venn Diagrams
7.2 Set Symbols
7.3 Mixtures
7.4 Graphing, Slopes, and Intercepts
7.5 Zero Product Property
7.6 Quadratic Equations
7.7 Word Problems
CHAPTER EIGHT: GEOMETRY
CHAPTER NINE: TRIGONOMETRY
9.1 Special Properties of Right Triangles
9.2 Trigonometric Functions
9.3 Law of Cosines
9.4 Law of Sines
9.5 Scaffold Problems
9.6 Sling Problems
9.7 Friction
9.8 Ramp Problems
9.9 Multiple Triangles
CHAPTER TEN: BOOLEAN ALGEBRA
10.1 Fault Tree Analysis
Abbreviations and Symbols Used in This Book
Index
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