Applications Index xxxv Pediatrics height and head circumference, 293 Pets animal nutrition, 847 dog roaming area, 395 pet ownership, 934 Photography camera distance, 556 field width of a lens, 389, 394, 411 security camera, 555 Physics angle of inclination, 658 atmospheric pressure, 310, 324 bouncing balls, 885, 907 catapult, 783 Doppler effect, 257 elevation, effect on weight, 84 filling a conical tank, 131 force braking load, 658, 678 equation for, A73 frictional, 595 to hold a wagon on a hill, 655–656 muscle, 650 resultant, 648 force vectors, 648 friction, static, 649 frictional force, 595 gravity on Earth, 75, 246, 293 gravitational force between Earth and Moon, 265 on Jupiter, 76 Hooke’s Law, 148 inclined planes, 410, A95 inclined ramps, 650 kinetic energy, A73 moment of inertia, 538 Newton’s Law of Cooling, 359–360, 364 Newton’s Law of Heating, 364 period of a pendulum, 125, 293 piston engine, 410 pressure, A73 product of inertia, 533 projectile motion artillery, 183 thrown ball, 182 pulleys, 394 rotational inertia, 77 static equilibrium, 649, 651, 678 uniform motion, A74 velocity of a ball, 967, 976 velocity on the Moon, 967–968 weight of a boat, 649 of a car, 649 of a piano, 626 wind turbine, 394 work, A73 uniform, 129–130, 747, 748, A70–A71, A74 of vinyl turntables, 394 Motor vehicles angular speed of a race car, 467 cost of driving a car, 46 cost to tow a car, 146 crankshafts on cars, 568 depreciation of cars, 272, 310, 343, 381 gas mileage, 177 license plate numbers, 937 production, 782 rental car rates, 46, 109 runaway car, 183 speed, 394 of a truck, 555 spin balancing tires, 395 stopping distance, 76, 169, 293 tailgating, 411 truck pull, 650 weight of a car, 649 windshield wipers, 394 Music vinyl turntables, 394 Navigation airline travel, 567 avoiding a storm, 574 bearings of an aircraft, 556 of an airplane, 553 of an object, 553 of a ship, 556, 595 charting a course, 545, 598, 649 compass headings, 649 crossing a river, 649 errors in, 567, 572–573, 595 flight plan, 574 rescue at sea, 564–565, 567 speed and direction of an aircraft, 626, 648, 649 Oceanography Bermuda Triangle, 581, A21 tides, 441, 461 Optics bending light, 502 Brewster’s law, 502 directing a laser beam, 555 distance seen from Burj Khalifa, A15 distance seen from deck of a destroyer,A21 distance seen from Silversides conning tower, A21 field width of a lens, 389, 394, 411 hyperbolic mirrors, 719 laser projection, 533 lensmaker’s equation, A43 limiting magnitude of a telescope, 378 optical measurement methods, 510 reflection in a mirror, 868 searchlights, 751 telescopes, reflecting, 691 Miscellaneous board deflection, 735 building a linear model from data, 148 Chicago streets, 609 citrus ladders, 875 cross-sectional area of a beam, 76, 84 curve fitting, 850 drafting error, 19 Droste Effect, 868 formula for e, 311 hyperbolic cosine function, 312 hyperbolic sine function, 312 Koch’s snowflake, 886 lamp shadow, 719 land dimensions, 567 lighthouse beacons, 467, A22 mind mapping, 471, 544 moving walkways, A74 paper creases, 897 Pascal figures, 904 Pascal triangle, 867 prime numbers, 312 repeating decimals, 880 rich man’s promise, 886 rotating beacon, 450 searchlights, 510 shading squares, 885 spreading of rumors, 310, 325 Stirling’s Formula, 904 swimming pool depth, 111 tortoise and the hare, 828–829 tunnel clearance, 441 waiting in line, 256 water leak, 734 Mixtures. See also Chemistry blending coffee, 839, 850, A69, A74 blending teas, A74 cement mix, A75 mixing a solution, 767 mixing candy, A74 mixing nuts, 766, 839, 851, A74 mixing water and antifreeze, A75 Motion. See also Physics of aircraft, 599 of bicycle wheels, 394 of car wheels, 394 on a circle, 394 circular, linear speed of an object traveling in, 390–391 damped, 586–588, 595 harmonic damped, 595 simple, 595 of a minute hand, 393 of an object, analyzing, 585–588 of a pendulum, 393, 880, 884–885 of a projectile, 165, 169, 410, 411, 501, 528, 533, 538, 740–741, 747, 748 of a roller coaster, 461 Rutherford’s experiment, 719 simulating, 742
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