May 18 2009

Math in the Oceans!

Published by jeterd under Uncategorized and tagged: ,

Did you know that the density of the ocean (assuming a constant temperature) is a linear relationship between pressure and depth? There are many mathematical relationships in studying the ocean. In fact, the tides can be predicted by sinusoidal curves, as seen by the figue below.

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