Welcome to Trevor Pythagoras
Trevor Pythagoras is a site all about maths where you can ask questions, buy textbooks and read lessons in the different topics within maths at a range of levels primarily aimed at ages 15/16 (GCSE) to 18/19 (A Level and Further Maths A level). The content of the site is based upon the maths syllabus I studied in the UK from ages 15 to 18 but each lesson is independent so if you are studying a different syllabus you should still find the majority of the material applicable and can use the request a post or questions features to fill in the gaps. Don't hesitate to use the interactive parts of the site (as a student I have plenty of time to respond to comments and answer questions)
Lessons
Using the links to the different sections across the top of the page you can find lessons on all the major topics. In each lesson there is a comments section allowing you to ask specific questions and expand upon the content. If you can't find a lesson on the topic you want you can request a post.
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You can buy textbooks from trevorpythag.co.uk as we are a member of the amazon affiliate scheme meaning that your transaction is processed through amazon. You can find textbooks for all topics covered by the site as well as some more general books on maths and some that are beyond the scope of this site.
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This newest feature of Trevor Pythagoras allows you to ask questions that can be answered by both the authors of the site and any visitors to the site (you must create an account before you can take advantage of this as an email address is required to notify you of answers). It also allows you to view questions that have been asked by other users.
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Product Rule for Differentiation
The product rule allows us to differentiate the product of two or more functions provided we know how to differentiate each of the functions seperatley. If we can differentiate two functions f and g the derivative is This rule can be repeated so that we can differentiate the product of more than two functions for [...]
Read more ...Log Laws: Taking logs of powers
It is often useful to be able to take logs of something raised to a power or to move a number multiplying a log inside the log. To do this the rule below can be used: logabc = c logab For example, log(9) = log(32) = 2 log(3) This can be used to either take [...]
Read more ...Writing Vectors in component form
Since vectors have sign and magnitude they can’t be written down as simply a a scalar (number). They can of course be given a symbol that we know represents a given vector, as we did in the introduction to vectors, but these can be difficult to work with. A common way is to use component [...]
Read more ...An introduction to vectors
Vectors can be a strange concept when you first start using them in maths of physics but they are actually simple once you get used to them. Whereas we are used to dealing with scalars (otherwise known as numbers) which simply have a size vectors have both size and “direction”. That is vectors contain a [...]
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