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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Tufte on Exponents

Waterflow physics is intriguing: "the amount of sediment a given flow can carry increases as the fifth power of the velocity." Do many things in Nature vary in proportion to the Ponzi-scheme fifth power?

Waterflow sediment is a powerful force; the velocity squared of kinetic energy will get you every time (recall the velocity difference--500 mph--between the Columbia and the piece of foam).
CP at 4:45 PM

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