by Marlow Anderson, Professor of Mathematics at Colorado College.
Disclosure: It's difficult for me to write an objective review because I proofed a late draft and got mentioned in the preface. The author is a friend.
The book grew out of a fun course Marlow developed for non-science majors who needed distributed credits in math. It falls between those books with very little math, and those requiring calculus. It's an ideal text for the intended course, or for high school students with a science bent. If you want a good understanding of the basics of scuba math and physics, as well as the math behind dive tables, especially the USN tables, this book should fill the bill. I find Marlow's writing to be clear, succinct, and sometimes amusing.
To give you an idea, there are chapters on:
Pressure
Buoyancy
Boyle's Law
Ideal Gas Laws
Water
The Exponential Function
Modeling Nitrogen Absorption
The Bends
The Navy Dive Tables
The Mathematics of the Navy Dive Tables
Variations on Table Use
Recreational Diving
My one regret is the price. See: Amazon.com: The Physics of Scuba Diving (9781907284786): Marlow Anderson: Books But I guess $32 isn't too out of line for college texts these days.
Disclosure: It's difficult for me to write an objective review because I proofed a late draft and got mentioned in the preface. The author is a friend.
The book grew out of a fun course Marlow developed for non-science majors who needed distributed credits in math. It falls between those books with very little math, and those requiring calculus. It's an ideal text for the intended course, or for high school students with a science bent. If you want a good understanding of the basics of scuba math and physics, as well as the math behind dive tables, especially the USN tables, this book should fill the bill. I find Marlow's writing to be clear, succinct, and sometimes amusing.
To give you an idea, there are chapters on:
Pressure
Buoyancy
Boyle's Law
Ideal Gas Laws
Water
The Exponential Function
Modeling Nitrogen Absorption
The Bends
The Navy Dive Tables
The Mathematics of the Navy Dive Tables
Variations on Table Use
Recreational Diving
My one regret is the price. See: Amazon.com: The Physics of Scuba Diving (9781907284786): Marlow Anderson: Books But I guess $32 isn't too out of line for college texts these days.
