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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Ferris Alice T."]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Free-flight and wind-tunnel studies of deployment of a dynamically and elastically scaled inflatable parawing model / / by Alice T. Ferris and H. Neale Kelly"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Washington, D.C. : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, , September 1968"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (42 pages) : illustrations"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"NASA technical note ; ; TN D-4724"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Airplanes - Parawings - Models - Testing"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Wind tunnels"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","\"September 1968.\""]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (page 15)."]
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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Mesterton-Gibbons Mike"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"A concrete approach to mathematical modelling / / Michael Mesterton-Gibbons"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, : John Wiley & Sons, 2007"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9786613813893"]
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[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (620 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"511.8"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Mathematical models"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","\"A Wiley-Interscience publication.\""]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"A Concrete Approach to Mathematical Modelling; CONTENTS; An ABC of modelling; I The Deterministic View; 1 Growth and decay. Dynamical systems; 1.1 Decay of pollution. Lake purification; 1.2 Radioactive decay; 1.3 Plant growth; 1.4 A simple ecosystem; 1.5 A second simple ecosystem; 1.6 Economic growth; 1.7 Metered growth (or decay) models; 1.8 Salmon dynamics; 1.9 A model of U.S. population growth; 1.10 Chemical dynamics; 1.11 More chemical dynamics; 1.12 Rowing dynamics; 1.13 Traffic dynamics; 1.14 Dimensionality, scaling, and units; Exercises; 2 Equilibrium"]
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[{"$nulls":4},"fleet should be operational?; Exercises; II Validating a Model; 4 Validation: accept, improve, or reject; 4.1 A model of U.S. population growth; 4.2 Cleaning Lake Ontario; 4.3 Plant growth; 4.4 The speed of a boat; 4.5 The extent of bird migration; 4.6 The speed of cars in a tunnel; 4.7 The stability of cars in a tunnel; 4.8 The forest rotation time; 4.9 Crop spraying; 4.10 How right was Poiseuille?; 4.11 Competing species; 4.12 Predator-prey oscillations"]
[{"$nulls":4},"4.13 Sockeye swings, paradigms, and complexity4.14 Optimal fleet size and higher paradigms; 4.15 On the advantages of flexibility in prescriptive models; Exercises; III The Probabilistic View; 5 Birth and death. Probabilistic dynamics; 5.1 When will an old man die? The exponential distribution; 5.2 When will ? men die? A pure death process; 5.3 Forming a queue. A pure birth process; 5.4 How busy must a road be to require a pedestrian crossing control?; 5.5 The rise and fall of the company executive; 5.6 Discrete models of a day in the life of an elevator"]
[{"$nulls":4},"5.7 Birds in a cage. A birth and death chain5.8 Trees in a forest. An absorbing birth and death chain; Exercises; 6 Stationary distributions; 6.1 The certainty of death; 6.2 Elevator stationarity. The stationary birth and death process; 6.3 How long is the queue at the checkout? A first look; 6.4 How long is the queue at the checkout? A second look; 6.5 How long must someone wait at the checkout? Another view; 6.6 The structure of the work force; 6.7 When does a T-junction require a left-turn lane?; Exercises; 7 Optimal decision and reward; 7.1 How much should a buyer buy? A first look"]
[{"$nulls":4},"7.2 How many roses for Valentine's Day?"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. \"\" . . . [a] treasure house of material for students and teachers alike . . . can be dipped into regularly for inspiration and ideas. It deserves to become a classic.\"\"-London Times Highe"]