Guesstimation 2.0 (eBook)

Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin

Lawrence Weinstein (Autor)

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2012
384 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4466-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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). Patricia Edwards is senior lecturer in art at Old Dominion University. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Simple and effective techniques for quickly estimating virtually anythingGuesstimation 2.0 reveals the simple and effective techniques needed to estimate virtually anything-quickly-and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. A stimulating follow-up to Guesstimation, this is the must-have book for anyone preparing for a job interview in technology or finance, where more and more leading businesses test applicants using estimation questions just like these.The ability to guesstimate on your feet is an essential skill to have in today's world, whether you're trying to distinguish between a billion-dollar subsidy and a trillion-dollar stimulus, a megawatt wind turbine and a gigawatt nuclear plant, or parts-per-million and parts-per-billion contaminants. Lawrence Weinstein begins with a concise tutorial on how to solve these kinds of order of magnitude problems, and then invites readers to have a go themselves. The book features dozens of problems along with helpful hints and easy-to-understand solutions. It also includes appendixes containing useful formulas and more.Guesstimation 2.0 shows how to estimate everything from how closely you can orbit a neutron star without being pulled apart by gravity, to the fuel used to transport your food from the farm to the store, to the total length of all toilet paper used in the United States. It also enables readers to answer, once and for all, the most asked environmental question of our day: paper or plastic?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2012
• Illustrationen: Patricia Edwards
• Zusatzinfo: 95 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Schlagworte: Aluminium • Angular momentum • angular resolution • Apparent magnitude • Bicycle • Bottle • Calculation • Car • Chemical Bond • CHEMICAL ENERGY • Chesapeake Bay • circumference • coefficient • Coffee preparation • Cone cell • Correction (newspaper) • Cosmic Ray • deep frying • Density of air • dishwasher • Drag (physics) • earth • Electrical energy • Electronvolt • Energy Density • Energy Storage • escape velocity • estimation • Friction • from the earth to the moon • fuel • Fuel economy in automobiles • Fuel Efficiency • Gasoline • geometric mean • Geosynchronous orbit • Gravitational Energy • Gravity • Hand • Incandescent light bulb • Inner Core • job interview • kilogram • kinetic energy • laser pointer • logarithm • loudness • Low Earth Orbit • Luminosity • mechanical energy • Meteorite • microwave • Mobile Phone • Molecule • Moment of Inertia • mountain range • movie theater • Neutrino • neutron star • Nuclear power plant • ounce • Photon • plastic bag • potential energy • Power Density • Princeton University Press • Probability • Proton decay • Quantity • Railroad car • random number generation • raw material • Recycling • rolling resistance • Rotational speed • Semi-trailer • Solar mass • Solar neutrino • Solar Panel • spacecraft • Space elevator • square root • Sunlight • Supervolcano • Surface Area • The Physics Teacher • thermal energy • Thickness (graph theory) • Tidal force • tire • TNT equivalent • toilet paper • Toll Road • To the Earth • Ultraviolet • Urine • Wavelength • weight • wrench • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4466-5 / 1400844665
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4466-1 / 9781400844661