Chapter 2

2.1 Power Functions

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. - G.H. Hardy

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2.2 Applications of Power Functions

I deduced that the forces which keep the planets in their orbs must be reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about which they revolve. -Isaac Newton

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2.3 Equations Involving Power Functions

To the skydiver, flying in a plane is akin to swimming in a boat; they live for the wind whipping past as they plummet toward the earth during free fall. -Ray Bangs & Chris Becker

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