T. Chester's Calculations

Being a scientist, I have naturally attempted to put numbers on various phenomena around me. Here is what I have online now, with a lot more to come:

• What does the Salary Curve versus experience for scientists and engineers imply about their average expected raise versus time? Why is the salary curve as observed? See Salary Curve Analysis for the complete scoop.

• When should you stay off the L.A. freeways in order to avoid heavy traffic? See the average L.A. traffic versus time, for all of L.A. freeways and for each direction of each freeway separately, to find out.

• How accurate are the predicted high temperatures for Southern California?

• What is the rarest disease that a human should expect to get? Are there a larger total number of rare problems than the number of common problems? How many problems should a human expect to have in the course of a lifetime?

• How much have I actually paid for gas in the last 4 years?

• How fast do the search engines actually get updated?

• When should you really stay out of the sun or use protection on a given day in the year?

• How accurate are pedometers?

• How can you reconcile the results of the Herschel experiment (that a thermometer reads highest in the infrared region of the solar spectrum) with the fact that the solar energy peaks in the orange region?

• Here are some statistics on the growth of the number of files Scott and I have placed online, as well as the growth rate in the number of accesses to those files. The plots show the increased number of accesses resulting from a listing in Yahoo!

Update log for T. Chester's calculations

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• Angeles Mountains Hiking Information
• Calculations
• Facts
• Fallbrook Information
• Financial Advice
• Grand Canyon Hiking Information
• Statistics on these Webpages
• Table of Contents for all of Tom's Webpages