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State Farm Arena

State Farm Arena is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand State Farm Arena rather than just read about it. In short: State Farm Arena is an indoor arena located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The arena serves as the home venue for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Key takeaways

State Farm Arena belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect State Farm Arena to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of State Farm Arena from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

State Farm Arena is an indoor arena located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The arena serves as the home venue for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). It also served as home to the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1999 to 2011, before the team moved to Winnipeg and was renamed to the Winnipeg Jets, as well as the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 2008 to 2016 and 2019, and the temporary home of Georgia Tech basketball in 2011. It opened in 1999 as Philips Arena at a cost of $213.5 million, replacing Omni Coliseum. It is owned by the Atlanta Fulton County Recreation Authority and operated by the Hawks, owned by Tony Ressler along with a group of investors including Grant Hill.

Layout

The arena seats 17,608 for basketball and 18,000+ for concerts. The largest crowd ever for an Atlanta Hawks basketball game at the arena was Game 6 of the 2008 Eastern Conference First Round on May 2, 2008 (against the Boston Celtics), where there was an announced attendance of 20,425. The arena includes 92 luxury suites, 9 party suites, and 1,866 club seats. For concerts and other entertainment events, the arena can seat 21,000. The arena was originally laid out in a rather unusual manner, with the club seats and luxury boxes aligned solely along one side of the playing surface, and the general admission seating along the other three sides (the arrangement was later emulated in Ford Field, Addition Financial Arena, Soldier Field, Levi's Stadium, and other venues). This layout was a vast contrast to many of its contemporaries, which have their revenue-generating luxury boxes and club seats located in the 'belly' of the arena, thus causing the upper deck to be 2–4 stories higher. The layout at Philips was done so as to be able to bring the bulk of the seats closer to the playing surface while still making available a sufficient number of revenue-raising club seats and loges. Renovations in 2017–18 removed the upper levels of the suite wall in favor of premium seating spread throughout the arena, turning those upper areas to standard seating. On the exterior, angled steel columns supporting the roof facing downtown spell out "ATLANTA." The side facing the Georgia World Congress Center originally spelled out "CNN" (whose headquarters adjoins the arena), but that section has since been altered to accommodate a Taco Mac restaurant. The SEC District rail station below the arena provides access to MARTA public transportation. Eindhoven, Netherlands-based technology company Philips purchased the initial naming rights to the arena in February 1999 for $185 million over 20 years. In February 2018, it was reported that Philips would not renew its naming rights agreement for the arena when it expired in June 2019, primarily due to Philips' withdrawal from the consumer electronics market in 2013. On August 29, 2018, State Farm purchased the naming rights to the arena, in a 20-year deal that cost $175 million. For the 2007–2008 season, State Farm Arena utilized the new "see-through" shot clock units which allow spectators seated behind the basket to see the action without having the clocks interfere with their view, joining FedExForum, Wells Fargo Center, TD Garden, United Center, Footprint Center and the Spectrum Center. Video advertising panels replaced the traditional scrolling panels.

Banners

Atlanta Hawks Title banners

1958 NBA championship 1970 Western Division Champions 1980, 1987, 1994 Central Division Champions 2015, 2021, 2026 Southeast Division Champions

Atlanta Dream 2010, 2011, 2013 Eastern Conference Champions

Atlanta Thrashers (1999–2011) 2006–07 Southeast Division Champions

History

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Illustrations

Logo as Philips Arena, 1999–2018

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with State Farm Arena

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what State Farm Arena claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to State Farm Arena before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about State Farm Arena ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of State Farm Arena

In research: State Farm Arena appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses State Farm Arena in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: State Farm Arena is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1999 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state), Arquitectonica buildings, Atlanta Dream, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for State Farm Arena outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study State Farm Arena in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what State Farm Arena means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain State Farm Arena out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is State Farm Arena in simple terms?

State Farm Arena is an indoor arena located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The arena serves as the home venue for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Why does State Farm Arena matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study State Farm Arena?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on State Farm Arena.