practice
- simple-pendulum.txt
In this experiment, simple pendulums of different lengths were constructed and
their periods measured. This data set looks linear, but is it really? What effect
does length have on the period of a simple pendulum?
- vostok.txt
Snow rarely gets a chance to melt in Antarctica, even in the summer when
the sun never sets. In the interior of the continent, the temperature of
the air hasn't been above the freezing point of water in any significant
way for the last 900,000 years. The snow that falls there accumulates and
accumulates and accumulates until it compresses into rock solid ice -- up
to 4.5 km thick in some regions. Since the snow that falls is originally
fluffy with air, the ice that eventually forms still holds remnants of this
air -- very, very old air. By examining the isotopic composition of the gases
in
carefully extracted cores of this ice we can learn things about the past
climatic
conditions
on earth. By extension
we might also predict some things about the climate of the future. The columns
in this data set are as follows:
- Age of air (years before present)
- Temperature difference with respect to the mean recent time value (°C)
- Carbon dioxide concentration (ppm)
- Dust concentration (ppm)
Source: Adapted from Petit,
et al. 1999.
Questions …
- CO2
- How does atmospheric carbon dioxide affect global climate?
- What global average temperature deviation might one expect given current atmospheric CO2 levels?
- Dust
- How does atmospheric dust affect global climate?
- What global average temperature deviation might one expect from exceptionally high levels of atmospheric dust?
- Write something else.
- pizza.txt
An Internet search engine was queried for pizzerias in the area centered
on Brooklyn College. The name, phone number, and address were recorded for
the first six hits. How is the building number of a pizzeria in Brooklyn
affected by the last four digits of its phone number?
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