Real World Math with Mathcad

This Electronic Book is a collection of real-world applications of mathematics using Mathcad. Some of the documents contain calculations you might do yourself, such as income taxes or unit conversion while cooking. Some of them are calculations which are done for you to compute your energy bill, your approval and payments for a mortgage, or the baseball statistics you read in the newspaper. Some of them are calculations which explain the way things in our world work, such as radio broadcasting, bar code labeling, and determining liability in class action suits. The goal is to show how mathematics pervades the world around us, and to give insight into the way some things happen.

This book is not a static collection of calculations. These documents are meant, above all, for play. All the examples incorporate parameters which can be changed, and suggestions as to what you should look for in the changing results. It is our hope that you'll explore each of these applications, and be richer for the experience.