COLLEGE ALGEBRA 8E

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Discovery Projects

Discovery Project 1-1: Real Numbers in the Real World

Discovery Project 1-2: Visualizing a Fomula

Discovery Project 1-3: Weight of the World

Discovery Project 1-4: Equations Through the Ages

Discovery Project 1-5: Proportionality: Shape and Size

Discovery Project 1-6: Visualizing Data

Discovery Project 1-7: Correlation and Causation

Discovery Project 1-8: Collecting and Analyzing Data

Discovery Project 2-1: Relations and Functions

Discovery Project 2-2: Implicit Functions

Discovery Project 2-3: Every Graph Tells a Story

Discovery Project 2-4: When Rates of Change Change

Discovery Project 2-5: Transformation Stories

Discovery Project 2-6: Iteration and Chaos

Discovery Project 3-1: Toricellis's Law

Discovery Project 3-2: Bridge Science

Discovery Project 3-3: Zeroing in on a Zero

Discovery Project 3-4: Managing Traffic

Discovery Project 4-1: So you want to be a millionaire?

Discovery Project 4-2: Orders of Magnitude

Discovery Project 4-3: Modeling Radiation with Coins and Dice

Discovery Project 4-4: The Even Tempered Clavier

Discovery Project 4-5: The Art of Modeling

Discovery Project 4-6: Semi-Log Plots

Discovery Project 4-7: Alcohol and the Surge Function

Discovery Project 4-8: Fitting Logistic Curves to Data

Discovery Project 4-9: Super Origami

Discovery Project 5-1: Periodic Functions

Discovery Project 5-2: Predator/Prey Models

Discovery Project 5-3: Hours of Daylight

Discovery Project 6-1: Similarity

Discovery Project 7-1: Where to Sit at the Movies

Discovery Project 8-1: Mapping the World

Discovery Project 8-2: Fractals

Discovery Project 8-3: Collision

Discovery Project 8-4: Vector Fields

Discovery Project 8-5: Sailing against the Wind

Discovery Project 9-1: Best Fit versus Exact Fit

Discovery Project 9-2: Computer Graphics I

Discovery Project 9-3: Will the Species Survive?

Discovery Project 9-4: Computer Graphics II

Discovery Project 10-1: Symmetry

Discovery Project 10-2: Computer Graphics III

Discovery Project 11-1: Finding Patterns

Discovery Project 12-1: Designing a Roller Coaster

Discovery Project 14-1: Small Samples, Big Results

Discovery Project 14-2: Bias in Presenting Data

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