Mathematics and calculations for agronomists and soil scientists : metric version / David Clay, C. Gregg Carlson, Sharon Clay and T. Scott Murrell.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clay, David (David E.)
Other Authors: Carlson, C. Gregg (Charles Gregg)
Clay, Sharon A. (Sharon Ann)
Murrell, T. Scott
Language:English
Published: Peachtree Corners, GA : International Plant Nutrition Institute, 2015.
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Physical Description:viii, 238 pages : colour illustrations ; 28cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 1.Review of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division -- 2.Standard units and rules for unit conversions -- 3.Unit conversions involved in temperatures, growing degree days, and thermal conductivity -- 4.Latitude/Longitude, calculating length, area and rates -- 5.Unit conversions involving fertilizers -- 6.Nutrient removal and nutrient budgets -- 7.Soil physical properties and soil water -- 8.Molarity, concentrations, and stable isotopes -- 9.Unit conversions problems involving pesticides -- 10.Estimating seeding rates, plant populations, corn and soybean yields, and yield losses during combining -- 11.Forage and grain yields -- moisture and shrinkage -- 12.Calculating grain and forage storage space -- 13.Soil pH, cation exchange capacity, base saturation, CCE, and liming -- 14.Soil salinity, sodicity, and electrical conductivity -- 15.Science, discovery, and decision making -- 16.Scientific experimentation, statistical analysis and interpretation -- 17.Understanding and quantifying change with models -- 18.Evaluating costs and returns of management decisions -- 19.Using least squares prediction models to estimate corn yield losses -- 20.Using iteration to develop predictive equations for polynomial, mitscherlich, hyperbolic, and logistic models -- 21.Using the hyperbolic model as a tool to predict yield losses due to weeds -- 22.Using calculus to conduct an economic analysis of a plant response experiment -- 23.Using partial derivatives to conduct an economic analysis on the impact of seeding density and N rates on yield -- 24.Using conceptual models and relational diagrams to develop mechanistic models for determining soil organic carbon turnover rates -- 25.Calculating partition coefficients and sorption isotherms -- Appendix 1: basic agronomic information -- Appendix 2: Answers to exercises -- Appendix 3: index. 
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