Slide Set 03: Allometric scaling
Strange scalings of sizes, shapes, and system properties.
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Slides with all reveals for lectures:
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Covered in these episodes:
02e: Introduction to Scaling (10:29)
02f: The beautiful scaling of the thinky and connecty parts of the brain (14:31)
02g: Koalas are not smart (3:28)
02h: Good and bad scaling (2:49)
02i: Scale invariance, allometry (6:17)
02j: Biology's massive range of sizes (3:47)
02k: Babies are weird (2:32)
02l: Scaling in lifting, running, swimming, good and bad (5:17)
03c: Scaling in biology recap (1:53)
03d: Quarterology and heartbeats (10:12)
03e: Insular species numbers (1:20)
03f: Cancer rates (3:31)
03g: Maximal animal speed (7:44)
03h: Engines: Horsepower and rpms (0:37)
03i: Nails (5:12)
03j: Rowing (0:33)
03k: Gravity laws (2:35)
03l: The Buckingham π Theorem (20:36)
03m: Fluids, nuclear blasts, turbulence (7:43)
03n: Fractals (2:05)
03o: Scaling laws for cities (6:33)
05b: Variant scaling in cities, a darkness (5:00)
05c: Coffee shops and hospitals (4:14)
05d: Terrorism and learning curves (2:06)
06b: Scaling in language evolution (5:22)