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notes and frequency, 499
Rolling Stones, 883
sound waves, 594–595, 599
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY,
PLANETARY STUDIES
acceleration of a vehicle, 189
attraction between particles, 34
boiling temperature of water, 176, 289
Boyle’s Law, 392
charged particles, 397, 952
climb rate, aircraft, 175
coefficients of friction, 586
comet path, 947–948, 1011, 1012
creating a vacuum, 1043
deflection of a beam, 387
density of objects, 329
depth and water pressure, 499
depth of a dive, 302
distance between planes, 517, 734
distance between planets, 32, 84,
717–718, 721
drag resistance on a boat, 328
elastic rebound, 1043, 1077
electron motion, 1005
fan blade speed, 541
fluid motion, 238
gravity, 215, 238, 423
acceleration due to, 239, 680
acting on object placed on ramp or
inclined plane, 754
timing a falling object, 66
harmonic motion, 599
height of rainbow, 530
index of refraction, 680–681
interplanetary measurement, 554
Kepler’s Third Law, 67, 141
kinetic energy of planets, 572
light intensity, 34, 398
Lorentz transformations, 44
metric time, 21
mixture exercises, 80, 85, 799, 803, 841
model rocketry, 302
movement of light beam, 580–581
Newton’s Law of Cooling, 430, 434, 464
Newton’s law of universal gravitation, 398
particle motion, 1005
pendulums, 397, 1039, 1042, 1091
planetary motion, 992–993
planet orbit, 501, 938–939, 987, 988,
994, 1001, 1011
projected image, 422
projectile height, 126–127, 140, 223,
292, 302–303
projectile motion, 761, 764, 790
projectile position, 670, 1000
projectile range, 221, 391, 651
projectile velocity, 44, 145, 146, 213
radioactive Carbon-14 dating, 479
radioactive decay, 436, 473–474, 479,
483, 489
radioactive half-life, 466, 473–474, 489
sound intensity, 398, 447, 449–450
sound speed, 188, 650
spaceship velocity, 465
spring oscillation, 102
star intensity, 447
supernova expansion, 269
temperature scales, 803
thermal conductivity, 884
traveling waves, 638
uniform motion, 80, 84, 800, 803–805
velocity of a falling object, 223
velocity of a particle, 382
velocity of moon, 517
velocity of planetary orbit, 517
visible light, 572
volume and pressure, 20
weight on other planets/moon, 390, 397
work and force, 755–756, 764
POLITICS
city council composition, 1063
conservative and liberals in senate, 269
dependency on foreign oil, 251
federal deficit (historical data), 222
government deficits, 328, 406
guns vs. butter, 837
military expenditures, 252
per capita debt, 32
Supreme Court Justices, 175
tax reform, 805
U.S. International trade balance, 127
voting tendencies, 1070
women in politics, 289
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND
HUMAN SERVICES
AIDS cases, 501
females/males in the workforce, 291
homeschooling, 292
law enforcement, 289
memory retention, 54, 359, 448
population density, 358
smoking, 288
SPORTS AND LEISURE
admission price, 252
amusement park attendance, 314
angle of belly-flop, 540
angle of carnival game spin, 540
angle of dive, 540
arcades, 252
archery, 1092
archery competition, 1004
athletic performance, 398
average bowling score, 148
barrel races, 554
baseball
card value, 176
exponential decay of pitcher’s
mound, 434
basketball
free throw shooting average, 1082
height of players, 147
NBA championship, 857
salaries, 500
batting averages, 1084
blanket toss competition, 303
cartoon character height, 883
chess tournaments, 1061
circus clowns, 841
city park dimensions, 19
Clue, 1063
darts, 1075
dice games, 1072
diet and training, 884
distance to movie screen, 629
dominoes, 1072
eight ball, 1073
exercise routing, 689–690
fish tank dimensions, 826
fitness center membership, 902
flagpole height, 605
flying clubs, 952
football competition, 1004–1005
football player weight, 94
400-m race, 224
golfball distance to hole, 668
height of blimp, 723
height of climber, 529
high-wire walking, 530
hitting a target, 721, 722, 1075
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