Best trigonometry books according to redditors

I'm 2 years into a part time physics degree, I'm in my 40s, dropped out of schooling earlier in life.

As I'm doing this for fun whilst I also have a full time job, I thought I would list what I'm did to supplement my study preparation.

I started working through these videos - Essence of Calculus as a start over the summer study whilst I had some down time. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53DwVRMYO3t5Yr

Ive bought the following books in preparation for my journey and to start working through some of these during the summer prior to start

Elements of Style - A nice small cheap reference to improve my writing skills
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/020530902X/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The Humongous Book of Trigonometry Problems https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1615641823/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0486404536/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Trigonometry Essentials Practice Workbook
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1477497781/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Systems of Equations: Substitution, Simultaneous, Cramer's Rule
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1941691048/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Feynman's Tips on Physics
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0465027970/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0465060714/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Calculus for the Practical Man
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1406756725/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (all volumes)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0465024939/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I found PatrickJMT helpful, more so than Khan academy, not saying is better, just that you have to find the person and resource that best suits the way your brain works.

Now I'm deep in calculus and quantum mechanics, I would say the important things are:

Algebra - practice practice practice, get good, make it smooth.

Trig - again, practice practice practice.

Try not to learn by rote, try understand the why, play with things, draw triangles and get to know the unit circle well.

Good luck, it's going to cause frustrating moments, times of doubt, long nights and early mornings, confusion, sweat and tears, but power through, keep on trucking, and you will start to see that calculus and trig are some of the most beautiful things in the world.

I've helped lots of people with Calc and the stumbling block is always their algebra. Calc itself is easy, but it requires a good deal of manipulating equations and that is all algebra. Linear algebra has less algebra but will still require you to have a good handle on algebra. The basic ideas should be easy to learn but make sure you can do them easily. This means lots of practice problems.

To be clear, you MUST practice, practice, practice. There are no short cuts. The calc problems get big and to solve them in a reasonable amount of time you'll need to be very fast with your algebra. Don't be discouraged, Algebra is not that hard. The problem is there are many rules and you need to be able to know them and see how they interact as a second nature. That will only come with practice.

Anything by Schaums is good for you here. You may not want to read their books but they are filled with problems that are solved in the back. I'm not sure what ones are best for your needs. There are lots of them and some are on complex topics. I would recommend you start to read another book people recommend here and then find the best one for your needs and use it as practice. I would guess you should take a look at their Trigonometry (you'll need this for Sin and Cos in Calc) and eitherElementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, or College Algebra

Be wary when looking for books on algebra. They can often be confused as abstract algebra/modern algebra and just be titled algebra. At your level, you do not want abstract algebra (group, field, ring theory, etc)

I recommend, by nothing more than looking at their table of contents:
Algebra:
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Concepts-Algebra-Dover-Mathematics/dp/0486614700/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1418411228&sr=8-4&keywords=Intermediate+algebra+dover

Trig:
http://www.amazon.com/Trigonometry-Refresher-Dover-Books-Mathematics/dp/0486442276/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1418411383&sr=8-2&keywords=Trigonometry+dover

Geometry: This book may go a bit too advanced, but it is cheap and seems decent
http://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Comprehensive-Course-Dover-Mathematics/dp/0486658120/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418404358&sr=8-1&keywords=geometry+dover

Calculus: This is by no means comprehensive(it seems to lack p tests for divergence among some other topics in cal 3), but it is enough to get you ready for advanced topics in it.
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Calculus-Applications-Dover-Mathematics/dp/0486660974/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418404423&sr=8-1&keywords=Calculus+dover

If you are interested in linear algebra, check out Shilov's linear algebra textbook. Don't bother with abstract, it really isn't that useful in engineering(computer science... yes)

Have trig down. I used this:

https://www.amazon.com/Trigonometry-Essentials-Practice-Workbook-Answers/dp/1477497781/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=trig+practice+book&qid=1555039566&s=gateway&sr=8-3

it was very helpful

maybe check out Charles Rambo's A Romp Tour of Trigonometry. he has some double-star (**) exercises you might find challenging.

one free trig book i'm aware of is by Sundstrom & Schlicker: Trigonometry

The Schaum's Outline books are very good. They all have lots of problems worked out in detail. I'm not personally familiar with their trig book but it's got five stars on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Trigonometry-5th-Edition/dp/0071795359

Another book of number puzzles I loved when I was a girl about her age were the Sideways Arithmetic books. They add and subtract words to get another word, and so you have to apply logic to figure out which number each letter represents for it to add up correctly. I learned algebra mostly from the book Algebra the Easy Way. It introduces principles of algebra by having characters in a fantasy story face problems that require them to develop the algebra techniques to solve, and it comes with exercises to practice. There are other books in the series, including one for trigonometry and one for calculus.

Have a look at the Teach yourself books by Hugh Neil. I recently picked up his introduction to algebra book but there is one for trigonometry as well as calculus. Trigonometry and Calculus

Jenney's i only ever really used the first year book. There's a ton of stuff in it though and it does a good job of explaining imo. I know the three and four ones are just passages from other works which although helpful are easier to actually just look up the works.

I don't know exactly what math class you're in, but the "Schaum's Outline" series contains a ton of solved problems. They're also MUCH cheaper than buying a textbook.

Like I said I'm not sure what your skill level is, but here are a few I found on Amazon.

Precalculus

Trigonometry

Calculus

McKeague Trigonometry 7th Edition

I just want some clarification. I searched a list of best trigonometry textbooks and "Plane Trigonometry" by Sidney Loney popped up.

In the preface, it says I should memorized X to XVI the actual page number (on top right) on the bold text adjacent to the formulae. I am thinking it is the latter.

Here

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0817636773/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HMQ9VU/