xxxi biorhythms, 441 blood types, 915 bone length, 185–186 cricket chirps, 178, 372–373 fruit fly population, 361–362 growth of a rabbit colony, 867 height and head circumference, 293 insect population growth, 363, 365 muscle force, 650 population model, 246 predator population, 425 reaction time, 178 trout population, 866 wood products, 362–363 Business advertising, 47, 186 automobile production, 279 cell phone rates, 46, A86 cost equation, 46 costs of car rental, 110 marginal, 169, 185 of production, 98, 254–255, 257, 265, 279, 811, 851, A13, A73 of transporting goods, 110 cupcake catering, 109 depreciation, 884 salvage value, 378 straight-line, 143–144, 147–148 discounts, 280 expense, computing, A75 inventory management, 131 managing a meat market, 846 mixing candy, A74 mixing nuts, A74 presale order, 767 production of automobiles, 782 of cans, 268 costs of, 98, 254–255, 257, 265, 279, 811, 851, A73 of juice, 782 of precision ball bearings, A13 scheduling, 846 of tents, 581 of trucks, 839 profit computing, 811 maximizing, 844, 845, 846 profit function, 76, 169 rental car rates, 46, 109 restaurant management, 767 revenue, 182–183 airlines, 847 maximizing, 169, 171–172, 176, 186 from sale of dishwashers, A73 of Tesla, Inc., 371 theater revenues, 768 Acoustics amplifying sound, 378 beats, 592 CBL experiment, 592 loudspeaker, 591 tuning fork, 591 whispering gallery, 700, 703 Aerodynamics fighter jet design, 581 modeling aircraft motion, 599, 679 Agriculture farm management, 845–846 milk production, 371 number of farm workers, 365 removing a stump, 650 Air travel airline revenue, 847 airport codes, 917 bearing of an airplane, 553 distance between two planes, 128 frequent flyer miles, 567 holding patterns, 441, 501 parking at O’Hare International Airport, 109 range of an airplane, A75 speed of a plane, A76 transatlantic, cost of, 76, 84 Archaeology estimating the age of a fossil, 364 estimating the age of ancient tools, 358 estimating when prehistoric man died, 378 Architecture Flatiron Building, 581 Great Pyramid height, A21 height of a statue on a building, 551–552 vertically circular building, 55 windows Norman window, 177, A20 special window, 177, 185 Area. See also Geometry of Bermuda Triangle, 581 computing, 581 covered by Flatiron Building, 581 under a curve, 485 of a dodecagon, 523 enclosed by a fence, 173, 176–177, 185, 829 grazing area for a cow, 582 of an isosceles triangle, 533 of a lake, 581, 595 of a lot, 581 of an octagon, 532–533 of a quadrilateral, 581 of a rectangle, 534 of a sector, 393 of a sidewalk, 412 Art decorative piece design, 410–411 Astronomy Bode’s Law, 868 Comet Hale-Bopp orbit, 680, 753 Earth circumference of, 395 distance to a star, 555–556 distance to Mercury, 568 distance to Moon, 567 distance to Sun, 703 distance to Venus, 569 speed of, 394 escape velocity, 735 Halley’s Comet orbit, 734 Jupiter, distance to Sun, 703 limiting magnitude of a telescope, 378 Mars, distance to Sun, 703 Mercury distance to Earth, 568 orbit of, 734 Moon distance from Earth to, 567 radius of, 411 speed of, 394 velocity on, 967–968 orbital launches, 766 orbits of Comet Hale-Bopp, 680, 753 elliptical, 703 of Halley’s Comet, 734 of Mercury, 734 Pluto, distance to Sun, 703 satellites, surveillance, 558 Sun angle of elevation of, 555 distance to Earth, 703 distance to Jupiter, 703 distance to Mars, 703 distance to Pluto, 703 speed of, 395 Venus, distance to Earth, 569 Aviation height of an airplane, 567, 568 orbital launches, 766 radar detection, 609 sonic boom, 719 speed and direction of an aircraft, 626, 648, 649 Biology alcohol and driving, 320, 325–326 bacterial growth, 356–357, 363 of E. coli, 98, 378–379 Applications Index
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