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Suiting Up |
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https://www.ck12.org/c/calculus/concept-of-limit/rwa/Suiting-Up/?referrer=concept_details |
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Other
CK-12
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Informational Material
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Overview: |
Humans thrive and survive within a narrow range of air pressures. When air pressures are out of this range, we have more physical problems. What happens when humans go into space? How have engineers made it possible to survive when air pressure approaches zero?
This informational material will relate the precalculus concept of limits of functions using a real-world issue--engineering astronaut spacesuits. There are embedded videos within the text. |
| Content Standard(s): |
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 9-12
Precalculus | 7. Determine numerically, algebraically, and graphically the limits of functions at specific values and at infinity.
a. Apply limits of functions at specific values and at infinity in problems involving convergence and divergence.
| English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 11
| 8. Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 12
| 8. Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information. |
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| Tags:
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air pressure, asymptote, end behavior, engineer, function, graph, limit, limit notation, precalculus, vocabulary |
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| Accessibility | Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles |
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