Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

Exercises

16.3 Define each of the following terms:

a) Collection

b) Collections

c) Comparator

d) List

e) load factor

f) collision

g) space/time trade-off in hashing

h) HashMap

16.4 Explain briefly the operation of each of the following methods of class Vector:

a) add

b) set

c) remove

d) removeAllElements

e) removeElementAt

f) firstElement

g) lastElement

h) contains

i) indexOf

j) size

k) capacity

16.5 Explain why inserting additional elements into a Vector object whose current size is less than its capacity is a relatively fast operation and why inserting additional elements into a Vector object whose current size is at capacity is a relatively slow operation.

16.6 By extending class Vector, Java’s designers were able to create class Stack quickly. ...