Lecture 3; Math 636
Scaling in geometry
lengths
areas
volumes
Geometric similarity y=f(x) --- > y=?
Cow at birth weighs 100 lbs and is a third the height of an adult cow. How much does the adult cow weigh?
Power laws and allometric relationships:
Zipf et al.
WWW (for more info, see this 1999 Science article)
Maintenance energy of a homeotherm
normative vs descriptive models