Q SCI 190: Quantitative Analysis for Environmental Science

Reading and Homework Assignment Three: Weeks Five and Six

Read: Chapter 3 (1-5) and Chapter 4 (1-6 and 8)

Work the following problems from your text during weeks 5 and 6:

Exercise Set 3.1
Page 423, #3, 9, 15
Page 424, #21, 29, 37, 47, 53, 59, 61
Page 425, #65, 67, 73
Page 426, #75, 79, 85, 87
Page 427, #93,95

Exercise Set 3.2
Page 437, #5, 15
Page 438, #33, 49, 55, 61, 73, 77, 89
Page 439, #103, 105, 111, 113, 115, 119, 123
Page 440, #135, 139, 149

Exercise Set 3.3
Page 449, #11, 25, 47, 65, 69, 75, 81, 87, 91, 97, 103
Page 450, #107, 121, 125, 131, 135

Exercise Set 3.4
Page 461, #5
Page 462, #17, 25, 43, 55, 73, 81, 93, 103, 105
Page 463, #113, 115, 117
Page 464, #119, 121, 139
Page 465, #141, 145, 152 (Ans: exponential)

Exercise Set 3.5
Page 478, #3, 5, 7, 15
Page 479, #19, 23, 27, 31, 33, 35, 37
Page 480, #41, 43, 49, 51
Page 481, #59, 61, 65, 75
Page 482, #79, 81, 85, 87


Application Exercises included in this Chapter:

Future value of an investment, population of India, future inflation, information retained after college, number of college graduates in the USA population, number of new programs in green studies, percent girl height growth as a function of age, opposition to feminism among first year college students, psychology student's retention of course material after class ended, sound intensity and loudness level, population growth of California, intensity of sunlight as a function of water depth, percentage of GDP in the US going towards health care, recall of lecture material as a function of dayes since lecture, measuring pH of a solution, population growth rates in several countries, decay model for C-14, half-life of radium-226 and K-40, half-life of Xanax in bloodstream, time for population to double, rate of growth of New Zealand population, logistic growth function for influenza outbreak, logistic function for percent of 20-year old Americans with coronary heart disease, rate of thaw for a frozen steak, percent of miscarriages by age


Exercise Set 4.1
Page 505, #3, 11, 15, 19, 27, 33, 37, 47, 57
Page 506, #73, 79, 85, 87, 91, 95, 97
Page 507, #103, 111, 117, 123, 125

Exercise Set 4.2
Page 520, #1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 19, 23, 25, 31
Page 521, #37, 41, 47, 53, 57, 63, 67, 73, 81
Page 522, #87, 95, 97, 99, 105

Exercise Set 4.3
Page 533, #3, 7, 9, 15, 25, 27, 31
Page 534, #37, 39, 47, 51, 53, 57
Page 535, #59, 61, 67, 71, 73
Page 536, #80 (Ans: a)357 ft, b)394 ft), 81

Exercise Set 4.4
Page 548, #3, 13, 19, 23, 29, 37, 53, 61, 85
Page 549, #87, 95, 101, 107, 111, 115

Exercise Set 4.5
Page 568, #3, 9, 19, 23, 33, 35, 45
Page 569, #49, 55, 61, 67
Page 570, #75, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 91, 95
Page 571, #111, 121

Exercise Set 4.6
Page 581, #3, 7, 13
Page 582, #19, 25, 31, 35, 47, 55, 59
Page 583, #61, 67, 71
Page 584, #91, 99

Exercise Set 4.8
Page 609, #5, 13, 19, 25
Page 610, #31, 33, 41, 43
Page 611, #47, 51, 53, 57, 63, 73
Page 612, #79


Application Exercises included in this Chapter:

Movement of clock hand, arc length on a railway crossing sign, distance between two points on Earth, Earth's linear velocity at equator, hours of daylight at any time, Navajo sand painting, distance across lake, distance of plane after take off, height of telephone pole, Stonehenge circle, height of Delicate Arch, locating a plane and ship using trigonometry, biorhythm periods, number of daylight hours in LA and Boston, water depth as tide changes, rotating beam of light, filming a moving target, height of TV tower, distance from Statute of Liberty from a moving ship, angle of elevation of wheelchair ramp, position of boat given a bearing and distance measurement, given two sightings how far is a forest fire from one of the sighters, position of jet flying a certain bearing after traveling a given distance


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