Episode 02: The Everywhereness of Scaling

Summary:

Being very clever with just a writing implement and the back of an envelope. Okay, a magic rectangle and a stylus. The point stands. We take in some examples of allometric and isometric scaling in biology, ecology, and physics, and revel in the greatness that is the Buckingham π theorem. Main tools: Envelopes, dimensional analysis, matrixology, and being very, very clever.

Date:

2016/09/01

Duration:

1:14:32

2016/09/01

1:14:32

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