Towing icebergs, falling dominoes, and other adventures in applied mathematics:
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1. Verfasser: Banks, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2013
Ausgabe:Paperback reissue
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Beschreibung:Originally published in hardcover. 1998
Includes bibliographical references and index
Units and dimensions and mach numbers -- Alligator eggs and federal debt -- Controlling growth and perceiving spread -- Little things falling from the sky -- Big things falling from the sky -- Towing and melting enormous icebergs : part I -- Towing and melting enormous icebergs : part II -- A better way to score the Olympics -- How to calculate the economic energy of a nation -- How to start football games, and other probably good ideas -- Gigantic numbers and extreme exponents -- Ups and downs of professional football -- A tower, a bridge, and a beautiful arch -- Jumping ropes and wind turbines -- The crisis of the deficit : Gompertz to the rescue -- How to reduce the population with differential equations -- Shot puts, basketballs, and water fountains -- Balls and strikes and home runs -- Hooks and slices and holes in one -- Happy landings in the snow -- Water waves and falling dominoes -- Something shocking about highway traffic -- How tall will I grow? -- How fast can runners run?
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 328 p.)
ISBN:0691158185
1400846749
9780691158181
9781400846740

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