sn/ch99/skills.rbtex

   1 <%
   2   require "../eruby_util.rb"
   3 %>
   4
   5
   6 <% print_end_matter_section_header('Three essential mathematical skills') %>\label{begin-skills}
   7
   8 More often than not when a search-and-rescue team finds a hiker dead in the wilderness, it turns
   9 out that the person won a Darwin Award by not carrying some item from a short list of
  10 essentials, such as water and a map. There are three mathematical essentials
  11 in this course.
  12
  13 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  14 % conversions
  15 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  16
  17 \formatlikesection{1. Converting units}
  18
  19 %------------------------------------------------
  20 m4_include(../share/end/skills_conversions.tex)
  21 %------------------------------------------------
  22
  23 Examples with solutions ---
  24 <% list_some_problems([
  25   "mg-to-kg","square-mm-to-cm"
  26 ])%>
  27
  28 Problems you can check at \url{lightandmatter.com/area1checker.html} ---
  29 <% list_some_problems([
  30   "micrograms","furlongs","estrogen","cubicft","liter-cube"
  31 ])%>
  32
  33 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  34 % ratios
  35 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  36
  37 \formatlikesection{2. Reasoning about ratios and proportionalities}
  38
  39 %------------------------------------------------
  40 m4_include(../share/end/skills_ratios.tex)
  41 %------------------------------------------------
  42
  43 Examples with solutions ---
  44 <% list_some_problems([
  45   "light-bucket","richter","martini","mars-drop-time"
  46 ])%>
  47
  48 Problems you can check at \url{lightandmatter.com/area1checker.html} ---
  49 <% list_some_problems([
  50   "mars-land-area","cd-hole","extrasolar","mars-trip","crash","therapy"
  51 ])%>
  52
  53 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  54 % vector addition
  55 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  56
  57 \formatlikesection{3. Vector addition}\label{skills-vector-addition}
  58
  59 %------------------------------------------------
  60 m4_include(../share/end/skills_vector_addition.tex)
  61 %------------------------------------------------
  62
  63 Examples with solutions ---
  64 <% list_some_problems([
  65   "annieoakley","cargoplane","hockey-pucks"
  66 ])%>
  67
  68 Problems you can check at \url{lightandmatter.com/area1checker.html} ---
  69 <% list_some_problems([
  70   "walking","fossil","bird","climbing-anchors","planes"
  71 ])%>