Oh no! Numbers! -- Back of the Envelope Science
Here you can find some material related to back of the envelope science.
Lecture (summer term 2017)
- Lecture (german): Fermi Fragen und Größenordnungen -
Physik auf dem Briefumschlag
- Tuesday, 4 pm s.t. , room 222, Institute for Applied Physics, University of Münster
- Exercises (german):
Blatt1 ,
Blatt2 ,
Blatt3 ,
Blatt4 ,
Blatt5 ,
Blatt6 ,
Blatt7
- Datensatz für Blatt7: heights.dat
Contents
- Divide and Conquer -- Fermi questions
- Scaling and dimensional analysis
- Applications
- Probability thinking
Literature
- Back-of-the-Envelope Physics, C. Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Press 2003
- Guesstimation, L. Weinstein and J.A. Adams 2008, Princeton University Press 2012
- Guesstimation 2.0, L. Weinstein, Princeton University Press 2012
- Street Fighting Mathematics, S. Mahajan, The MIT Press 2010
- Scaling, G. Barenblatt, Cambridge 2003
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