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Monday, March 14, 2011
Tipping Cars
AP Physics rocked a Fermi problem this week on the wind speed required to tip over a car!
Wow. That vaguely rang a bell, but I had no idea it was all online. Awesome - thanks for the link! I'd love to do a summer week-long thing on this with kids.
Love this. I assume you've seen MIT's street fighting math? And you can download the text for free (pdf link).
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