Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics
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Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics

About this book

Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply fun to ponder in themselves--such as the best way to score Olympic events.
Here Robert Banks presents a wide range of musings, both practical and entertaining, that have intrigued him and others: How tall can one grow? Why do we get stuck in traffic? Which football player would have a better chance of breaking away--a small, speedy wide receiver or a huge, slow linebacker? Can California water shortages be alleviated by towing icebergs from Antarctica? What is the fastest the 100-meter dash will ever be run?
The book's twenty-four concise chapters, each centered on a real-world phenomenon, are presented in an informal and engaging manner. Banks shows how math and simple reasoning together may produce elegant models that explain everything from the federal debt to the proper technique for ski-jumping.
This book, which requires of its readers only a basic understanding of high school or college math, is for anyone fascinated by the workings of mathematics in our everyday lives, as well as its applications to what may be imagined. All will be rewarded with a myriad of interesting problems and the know-how to solve them.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

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Information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781400846740
Edition
0
Topic
Matematica
Subtopic
Matematica applicata

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1 Units and Dimensions and Mach Numbers
  9. Chapter 2 Alligator Eggs and the Federal Debt
  10. Chapter 3 Controlling Growth and Perceiving Spread
  11. Chapter 4 Little Things Falling from the Sky
  12. Chapter 5 Big Things Falling from the Sky
  13. Chapter 6 Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part I
  14. Chapter 7 Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part II
  15. Chapter 8 A Better Way to Score the Olympics
  16. Chapter 9 How to Calculate the Economic Energy of a Nation
  17. Chapter 10 How to Start Football Games, and Other Probably Good Ideas
  18. Chapter 11 Gigantic Numbers and Extreme Exponents
  19. Chapter 12 Ups and Downs of Professional Football
  20. Chapter 13 A Tower, a Bridge, and a Beautiful Arch
  21. Chapter 14 Jumping Ropes and Wind Turbines
  22. Chapter 15 The Crisis of the Deficit: Gompertz to the Rescue
  23. Chapter 16 How to Reduce the Population with Differential Equations
  24. Chapter 17 Shot Puts, Basketballs, and Water Fountains
  25. Chapter 18 Balls and Strikes and Home Runs
  26. Chapter 19 Hooks and Slices and Holes in One
  27. Chapter 20 Happy Landings in the Snow
  28. Chapter 21 Water Waves and Falling Dominoes
  29. Chapter 22 Something Shocking about Highway Traffic
  30. Chapter 23 How Tall Will I Grow?
  31. Chapter 24 How Fast Can Runners Run?
  32. References
  33. Index