Thursday, 24-Jul-2008 07:56:15 CDT
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Chapter 2:  Newtonian Growth and Decay



	The growth-decay formulas were developed in the trivial fashion by

Isaac Newton's famous brother Phigg.  His idea was to provide an equation

that would describe a quantity that would dwindle and dwindle, but never

quite reach zero.  Historically, he was merely trying to work out his

mortgage.  Another versatile equation also emerged, one which would define

a function that would continue to grow, but never reach unity.  This equation

can be applied to charging capacitors, over-damped springs, and the human

race in general.






It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

		-- Woody Allen