Reddit reviews Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide, 2nd Edition
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If it's a review I suggest a book called Quick Calculus, also look over Paul's math notes trig and algebra review.
This was offered as an optional text for one of my beginning calculus courses: Quick Calculus
It's kind of like choose your own adventure calculus--if you get the correct answer to a problem, you go to one page, but if you get an incorrect answer, it sends you to the dungeon to work through the concept again.
I found that the book Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide(Amazon link) was quite good.
'Quick Calculus' is based around a self-tutoring approach, and is great for brushing up. You can probably find a PDF of it around somewhere.
There's a lot of fun and interesting physics and astronomy that can be understood with little more than solid algebra skills. Add a little bit of introductory calculus, and there's a lot to keep you busy. If you're brave enough to dive into calc, I recommend this book.
Since you expressed particular interest in Astronomy, I would suggest using that as an anchor point. Get a good Astrophysics text like An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Carroll and start there. Inevitably, you will come upon concepts that you're shaky on-- luckily this is the age of the internet! I find HyperPhysics is a great resource (which appears to be down at the moment).
If you find that Newtonian physics is tripping you up, I recommend Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide to fill in the gaps.
After a 6 year break in my own EE education I used this book to get me back in shape math wise. If you can go through this book and work all the problems, you shouldn't have many issues through Calc II. Good luck on the EE.
I hadn't taken a math class in over 5 years when I enrolled in Calc I. This book https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0471827223/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524052149&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=quick+calculus was a perfect precursor for the class if you're pressed for time.
I haven't read it personally, but some agree on Quick Calculus being an approachable book for covering both the techniques and the concepts applied in calculus. The "why" behind the techniques often gets hidden away from non-maths majors, so this book supposedly works as a good self-supplement.