5. Air Drag—A Physical Vie

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. For the Reader xi
4. Preface xiii
5. 1. Three Examples of the Mutual Embrace 1
6. 2. Measuring Gravity 18
7. 3. Feynman’s Infinite Circuit 24
8. 4. Air Drag—A Mathematical View 44
9. 5. Air Drag—A Physical Vie 62
10. 6. Really Long Falls 82
11. 7. The Zeta Function—and Physics 94
12. 8. Ballistics—With No Air Drag (Yet) 107
13. 9. Ballistics—With Air Drag 120
14. 10. Gravity and Newton 136
15. 11. Gravity Far Above the Earth 170
16. 12. Gravity Inside the Earth 186
17. 13. Quilts & Electricity 215
18. 14. Random Walks 233
19. 15. Two More Random Walks 261
20. 16. Nearest Neighbors 285
21. 17. One Last Random Walk 299
22. 18. The Big Noise 321
23. 19. Electricity in the Fourth Dimension 373
24. Acknowledgments 385
25. Index 387
26. Backmatter 393