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Temperature of a Point on a 2-D Plate

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Find the temperature at a particularpoint of a rectangular plate using statistical methods.


Author: Ed Malczewski
Date Created: 6/30/1996
Last Modified: 6/30/1996

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The objective of this lesson is to find the temperature at a particularpoint of a rectangular plate using statistical methods. It is assumedthat the temperature of the edges as well as the dimensions of theplate are known. The lesson includes a program that will run on Resampling Stats, and a graphical Macintosh application program simulating the random walk.

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