Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt : : And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics / / Paul J. Nahin.
What does quilting have to do with electric circuit theory? The answer is just one of the fascinating ways that best-selling popular math writer Paul Nahin illustrates the deep interplay of math and physics in the world around us in his latest book of challenging mathematical puzzles, Mrs. Perkins&#...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 84 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- For the Reader
- Preface
- 1. Three Examples of the Mutual Embrace
- 2. Measuring Gravity
- 3. Feynman's Infinite Circuit
- 4. Air Drag-A Mathematical View
- 5. Air Drag-A Physical Vie
- 6. Really Long Falls
- 7. The Zeta Function-and Physics
- 8. Ballistics-With No Air Drag (Yet)
- 9. Ballistics-With Air Drag
- 10. Gravity and Newton
- 11. Gravity Far Above the Earth
- 12. Gravity Inside the Earth
- 13. Quilts & Electricity
- 14. Random Walks
- 15. Two More Random Walks
- 16. Nearest Neighbors
- 17. One Last Random Walk
- 18. The Big Noise
- 19. Electricity in the Fourth Dimension
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Backmatter