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Collect and Discuss Other Patterns in Nature

1. The document discusses various natural patterns including trees, meanders in rivers, waves in the ocean and grass, and provides examples of each. 2. Symmetries, fractals, and spirals found in nature are then identified and examples are given such as the symmetrical leaves of coconut trees, fractal-like properties of trees and blood vessels, and spiral shapes seen in hurricanes and galaxies. 3. Natural phenomena are explained in relation to mathematics, with earthquakes located using distance calculations from epicenters, hurricanes modeled mathematically, tides graphed using trigonometry, tsunamis modeled with partial differential equations, and volcanic eruptions monitored using techniques to analyze

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Collect and Discuss Other Patterns in Nature

1. The document discusses various natural patterns including trees, meanders in rivers, waves in the ocean and grass, and provides examples of each. 2. Symmetries, fractals, and spirals found in nature are then identified and examples are given such as the symmetrical leaves of coconut trees, fractal-like properties of trees and blood vessels, and spiral shapes seen in hurricanes and galaxies. 3. Natural phenomena are explained in relation to mathematics, with earthquakes located using distance calculations from epicenters, hurricanes modeled mathematically, tides graphed using trigonometry, tsunamis modeled with partial differential equations, and volcanic eruptions monitored using techniques to analyze

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1. Collect and discuss other patterns in nature.

Aside from the discussed patterns in the video, these are the other patterns that I
have collected.

 Trees are culminate illustrations of fractals in nature. You'll discover fractals at each level of


the woodland biological system from seeds and pinecones, to branches and takes off, and to
the self-similar replication of trees, greeneries, and plants all through the biological system.

 Meanders are bends in a sinuous shape that appear as rivers or other channels flowing
around bends that shape as a fluid, most often water. As soon as a slight curve emerges on
the bridge, each loop's size and curvature increases as helical flow drags material such as sand
and gravel to the inside of the bend across the river. Erosion accelerates, and in a strong
positive feedback loop, the outside of the loop is left clean and vulnerable, thus enhancing the
meandering.

 Waves in the natural world, there are hundreds of patterns that occur in various ecosystems,
in various plants and animals, and also at continental levels linked to climate patterns. When
looking at the ocean from above, the wave pattern is most commonly seen. However, as the
wind blows through the grass, you can see wave patterns in nature as well.
Trees Sea Waves
Meanders Grass waves

2. Identify and discuss symmetries, fractals, and spirals in your


surroundings, except those that were mentioned as examples in
the video clip.

Symmetries:

 Coconut leaves form parallel and symmetrical lines.

 In the leaves of a Coleus plant, the striking contrast and pattern


reminds one of rivers and tributaries seen under a microscope from
space or veins and capillaries.

 In their symmetry, unique forms of Cacti are so amazing that it is hard


to believe they are living beings. Moreover, their growth uniformity is
so rigid that many individual plants can be used on a small scale to
construct patterns and shapes.

 Bilateral symmetry refers to creatures with body forms that, along a


midline called the sagittal plane, are mirror images. However, the
internal organs aren't always symmetrically distributed.
Coconut Tree Cactus

Coleus Plant
Insect and Human bilateral symmetry

Fractals:

 Trees - Fractals are Geometric Representations of Nature. They are defined


as "self-similar" since, within similar patterns, systems within systems, they
are endless inclusions of similar patterns. ... In nature, the trees we see are
self-like. A magnified portion of its branches appears identical to the
unmagnified tree.

 Clouds have forms that are distinctive. Or they appear to have forms that
are distinctive. It turns out that is possibly due to the fractal existence of
clouds.

 Blood Vessel - In order to obtain oxygen and nutrients, every cell in the
body must be close to a blood vessel (within about 100 microns). Via a
fractal branching network where blood vessels branch and branch ever
smaller, down to the width of a capillary, which is around 8 microns in
diameter, is the only way this is possible.
 Fractal River - The planet Earth has fractal river networks that carry rainfall
from the soil to the oceans, much like the circulatory system in the body.
These complex, self-similar patterns, like all fractals, are created over and
over by the repetition of a simple process.

Trees Blood Vessel


Clouds Fractal River

Spiral:

 Hurricane - It is true that a spiral has the general form of a hurricane.


At each connection point, this "spiral" has curvature discontinuity.

 Galaxy - Nature, however, does seem to have quite an affinity for


spirals. The rotation of the body spawns spiral forms in hurricanes and
galaxies: As the core spins faster than the periphery, waves are turned
around into spirals within these phenomena. ... It's a basic pattern
with complex outcomes, and in nature it is always found.

 Human made Spiral Staircase

 Natural Curly Hair

Hurricane Spiral Staircase


Galaxy Natural Curly Hair

3. List and explain some natural phenomena in relation to


mathematics.

 Earthquake - The epicenter is situated directly above the earthquake 's


core. To locate the epicenter and magnitude of earthquakes, experts use
math and are then able to assess the intensity of the earthquake. Each circle
has a radius which matches the measurement of the distance from the
epicenter to the seismometer.

 Hurricane - Meteorologists make a living forecasting the movements of


storms. Air streams follow those trends in most areas that assist weather
forecasters in their work. Mathematicians have now added another aspect
to weather casting: Predicting the energy which large storms, particularly
hurricanes, would generate. The mathematical relationship between the
number of storms produced in a given region and the energy those storms
can emit has been discovered by a team of researchers in Spain.
Interestingly enough, the test shooter.

 Tidal transition measurement using a trigonometry graph – For a


specific location, you can use trigonometry to graph the shifts in high and
low tides. The tides are of particular concern along the coast. The
gravitational force of both the moon and the sun influences them. A
periodic pattern that you can model with the sinus function matches the
high tides and low tides.

 Tsunami - Nothing can stop a tsunami from occurring, which are nature's
enormously strong occurrences. In order to calculate estimates of the speed
and magnitude of a tsunami and its arrival time on coastlines, mathematical
models built from partial differential equations use the produced data.

 Volcanic Eruption - In order to better understand volcanoes and forecast


when eruptions can occur, scientists use a mathematical tool. A new
technique has been developed by a team of volcanologists to monitor how
magma moves and flows under the surface of the Earth, causing the ground
to flex and quiver and eventually contributing to an eruption.

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