College Algebra, 4th Edition

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• Hales, Stephen, 263

• Half-life, 469–470

• Half planes, 559

• Halley, Edmund, 684

• Harmony, in music, 496

• Hawass, Zahi, 462

• Height, inferring from femur, 205

• Hipparchus of Rhodes, 497

• Honeybees, 716, 720–721

• Hooker Telescope, 661

• Horizontal asymptotes, of a rational function, 387–388, 391–392

• Horizontal ellipses, 678

• Horizontal lines, equations of, 203

• Horizontal-line test, 295–296

• Horizontal shifts of graphs, 263–266

• Horizontal stretching/compressing, 271–272

• Hounsfield, Godfrey, 527

• Hounsfield numbers, 534

• Hubble, Edwin, 661

• Hubble’s Law, 661

• Hubble Space Telescope, 661, 670–671

• Humphries, Robert, 778

• Hyperbolas, 660, 690–706

  • applications involving, 701–702

  • asymptotes of, 694–696

  • determining orientation of, 692

  • equation of, 691, 693–694, 696