How Long to Read The Plaid Model

How Long Does it Take to Read The Plaid Model?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read The Plaid Model by Richard Evan Schwartz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Outer billiards provides a toy model for planetary motion and exhibits intricate and mysterious behavior even for seemingly simple examples. It is a dynamical system in which a particle in the plane moves around the outside of a convex shape according to a scheme that is reminiscent of ordinary billiards. The Plaid Model, which is a self-contained sequel to Richard Schwartz’s Outer Billiards on Kites, provides a combinatorial model for orbits of outer billiards on kites. Schwartz relates these orbits to such topics as polytope exchange transformations, renormalization, continued fractions, corner percolation, and the Truchet tile system. The combinatorial model, called “the plaid model,” has a self-similar structure that blends geometry and elementary number theory. The results were discovered through computer experimentation and it seems that the conclusions would be extremely difficult to reach through traditional mathematics. The book includes an extensive computer program that allows readers to explore the materials interactively and each theorem is accompanied by a computer demonstration.

How long is The Plaid Model?

The Plaid Model by Richard Evan Schwartz is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Plaid Model Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read The Plaid Model aloud.

What Reading Level is The Plaid Model?

The Plaid Model is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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