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Edexcel AS and A level Mathematics Statistics & Mechanics Year 1/AS Textbook + e-book
Greg Attwood | Ian Bettison | Alan Clegg | Jane Dyer | Susan Hooker | Mr Author
(2017)
Additional Information
Book Details
Abstract
Exam board: Edexcel
Level: AS and A level
Subject: Mathematics
First teaching: September 2017
First exams: Summer 2018
This book covers all the content needed for the Edexcel AS level Statistics and Mechanics exam. It can also be used alongside the Year 2 book to cover all the content needed for the Edexcel A level Statistics and Mechanics exam.
- Fully updated to match the 2017 specifications, with more of a focus on problem-solving and modelling as well as supporting the large data set and new calculators.
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FREE additional online content to support your independent learning, including full worked solutions for every question in the book (SolutionBank), GeoGebra interactives and Casio calculator tutorials.
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Includes access to an online digital edition (valid for 3 years once activated).
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Includes worked examples with guidance, lots of exam-style questions, a practice paper, and plenty of mixed and review exercises.
This title is replacing ISBN 9781292183282.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Front Cover | ||
| Contents | ii | ||
| Overarching themes | iv | ||
| Extra online content | vi | ||
| Statistics | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1: Data collection | 1 | ||
| 1.1: Populations and samples | 2 | ||
| 1.2: Sampling | 4 | ||
| 1.3: Non-random sampling | 7 | ||
| 1.4: Types of data | 9 | ||
| 1.5: The large data set | 11 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 1 | 16 | ||
| Chapter 2: Measures of location and spread | 20 | ||
| 2.1: Measures of central tendency | 21 | ||
| 2.2: Other measures of location | 25 | ||
| 2.3: Measures of spread | 28 | ||
| 2.4: Variance and standard deviation | 30 | ||
| 2.5: Coding | 33 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 2 | 36 | ||
| Chapter 3: Representations of data | 40 | ||
| 3.1: Outliers | 41 | ||
| 3.2: Box plots | 43 | ||
| 3.3: Cumulative frequency | 46 | ||
| 3.4: Histograms | 48 | ||
| 3.5: Comparing data | 53 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 3 | 54 | ||
| Chapter 4: Correlation | 59 | ||
| 4.1: Correlation | 60 | ||
| 4.2: Linear regression | 63 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 4 | 66 | ||
| Chapter 5: Probability | 69 | ||
| 5.1: Calculating probabilities | 70 | ||
| 5.2: Venn diagrams | 72 | ||
| 5.3: Mutually exclusive and independent events | 75 | ||
| 5.4: Tree diagrams | 78 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 5 | 80 | ||
| Chapter 6: Statistical distributions | 83 | ||
| 6.1: Probability distributions | 84 | ||
| 6.2: The binomial distribution | 88 | ||
| 6.3: Cumulative probabilities | 91 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 6 | 94 | ||
| Chapter 7: Hypothesis testing | 98 | ||
| 7.1: Hypothesis testing | 99 | ||
| 7.2: Finding critical values | 101 | ||
| 7.3: One-tailed tests | 105 | ||
| 7.4: Two-tailed tests | 107 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 7 | 109 | ||
| Review exercise: 1 | 113 | ||
| Mechanics | 118 | ||
| Chapter 8: Modelling in mechanics | 118 | ||
| 8.1: Constructing a model | 119 | ||
| 8.2: Modelling assumptions | 120 | ||
| 8.3: Quantities and units | 122 | ||
| 8.4: Working with vectors | 125 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 8 | 128 | ||
| Chapter 9: Constant acceleration | 130 | ||
| 9.1: Displacement–time graphs | 131 | ||
| 9.2: Velocity–time graphs | 133 | ||
| 9.3: Constant acceleration formulae 1 | 137 | ||
| 9.4: Constant acceleration formulae 2 | 142 | ||
| 9.5: Vertical motion under gravity | 146 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 9 | 152 | ||
| Chapter 10: Forces and motion | 156 | ||
| 10.1: Force diagrams | 157 | ||
| 10.2: Forces as vectors | 160 | ||
| 10.3: Forces and acceleration | 162 | ||
| 10.4: Motion in 2 dimensions | 166 | ||
| 10.5: Connected particles | 169 | ||
| 10.6: Pulleys | 173 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 10 | 177 | ||
| Chapter 11: Variable acceleration | 181 | ||
| 11.1: Functions of time | 182 | ||
| 11.2: Using differentiation | 185 | ||
| 11.3: Maxima and minima problems | 186 | ||
| 11.4: Using integration | 188 | ||
| 11.5: Constant acceleration formulae | 191 | ||
| Mixed exercise: 11 | 193 | ||
| Review exercise: 2 | 197 | ||
| Exam-style practice: Paper 2 | 201 | ||
| Appendix | 204 | ||
| Answers | 209 | ||
| Index | 231 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |