Need Short Easy Primer on Hyperbolic Functions

[glamotte7]

Hello All,

Am studying GR using a text by Hartle. From time to time need a better intuitive understanding of hyperbolic functions than I currently have. Never learned them for my physics undergrad. Any short sweet highly understandable primer, etc, that anyone knows of (preferably free of course)?

glamotte7

 

[Nabeshin]

I'm not sure what it is exactly you want to know.. this is rather like asking for a book solely dedicated to the sine, cosine, and tangent functions (overkill, certainly!). Having already studied Hartle, I would say a look at various wikipedia articles should inform you of their properties, identities, integrals and derivatives, which is really all one needs for that level of discussion.

 

[glamotte7]

Thanks Nabeshin

Any other suggestions anyone?

 

[Pinu7]

There really is not too much to learn. You can always go to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_function

There is also something known as "hyperbolic geometry" which is somewhat useful to GR.