From the Book - Regular Print
Chapter 1 Units and Dimensions and Mach Numbers 3 --
Chapter 2 Alligator Eggs and the Federal Debt 15 --
Chapter 3 Controlling Growth and Perceiving Spread 24 --
Chapter 4 Little Things Falling from the Sky 31 --
Chapter 5 Big Things Falling from the Sky 42 --
Chapter 6 Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part I 54 --
Chapter 7 Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part II 68 --
Chapter 8 A Better Way to Score the Olympics 79 --
Chapter 9 How to Calculate the Economic Energy of a Nation 93 --
Chapter 10 How to Start Football Games, and Other Probably Good Ideas 109 --
Chapter 11 Gigantic Numbers and Extreme Exponents 121 --
Chapter 12 Ups and Downs of Professional Football 133 --
Chapter 13 A Tower, a Bridge, and a Beautiful Arch 150 --
Chapter 14 Jumping Ropes and Wind Turbines 168 --
Chapter 15 Crisis of the Deficit: Gompertz to the Rescue 179 --
Chapter 16 How to Reduce the Population with Differential Equations 189 --
Chapter 17 Shot Puts, Basketballs, and Water Fountains 201 --
Chapter 18 Balls and Strikes and Home Runs 219 --
Chapter 19 Hooks and Slices and Holes in One 234 --
Chapter 20 Happy Landings in the Snow 243 --
Chapter 21 Water Waves and Falling Dominoes 254 --
Chapter 22 Something Shocking about Highway Traffic 270 --
Chapter 23 How Tall Will I Grow? 283 --
Chapter 24 How Fast Can Runners Run? 300.