Guesstimation Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin

Name: Guesstimation Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
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ISBN: 9780691129495

ISBN-10: 0691129495

ISBN-13: 9780691129495

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lawrence Weinstein, John Adam

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Guesstimationis a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants' abilities to think on their feet.Guesstimationenables anyone with basic math and science skills to estimate virtually anything--quickly--using plausible assumptions and elementary arithmetic. Lawrence Weinstein and John Adam present an eclectic array of estimation problems that range from devilishly simple to quite sophisticated and from serious real-world concerns to downright silly ones. How long would it…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 4.49" wide x 7.52" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Lawrence Weinstein is University Professor of Physics at Old Dominion University. He is the coauthor of "Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin" (Princeton).



Acknowledgments


Preface



How to Solve Problems



Dealing with Large Numbers



Scientific Notation 11



Accuracy



A Note on Units



Unit Conversion



General Questions



One big family



Fore! 25



This is a fine pickle you've got us into, Patty



Throwing in the towel



Hey buddy, can you fill a dome!



A mole of cats



Massive MongaMillions



Tons of trash



Mt. Trashmore



Juggling people



Shelving the problem



Animals and People



More numerous than the stars in the sky



Laboring in vein



Unzipping your skin



Hair today, gone tomorrow



Hot dawg!



Playing the field



Ewww. . . gross!



Going potty



Let's get one thing straight!



Transportation



Driving past Saturn



Drowning in gasoline



Slowly on the highway



Rickshaws and automobiles



Horse exhaust



Tire tracks



Working for the car



Energy and Work



Energy of height



Mountain climbing



Flattening the Alps



Raising a building



Energy of motion



At your service



Kinetic trucking



Racing continents



"To boldly go. . . " 135



Work



Crash!



Spider-Man and the subway car



Hydrocarbons and Carbohydrates



Chemical energy



Energy in gasoline



Battery energy



Battery energy density



Batteries vs. gas tanks



Food is energy



Eat here, get gas



Farmland for ethanol



Power!



Hot humans



Fill 'er up with gasoline



Fill 'er up with electricity



The Earth, the Moon, and Lots of Gerbils



"And yet it moves" (e pur si muove) 181



Duck!



Super-sized Sun



Sun power



Gerbils 1, Sun 0 197



Chemical Sun



Nearby supernova



Melting ice caps



Energy and the Environment



Power to the people



Continental power



Solar energy



Land for solar energy



Tilting at windmills



The power of coal



The power of nuclei



Hard surfaces



The Atmosphere



Into thin air



Ancient air



Suck it up



CO2 from coal



A healthy glow



CO2 from cars



Turning gas into trees



Turning trees into gas



Risk



Gambling on the road



The plane truth



Life's a beach



Up in smoke



Unanswered Questions


Appendix: Needed Numbers and Formulas



Useful Numbers



Handy Formulas



Metric Prefixes



Pegs to Hang Things On


Bibliography


Index