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Visualize your personal energy consumption. To do this accurately may require a bit of research.
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Posts tagged “useful”
“Let’s say your goal is to reduce gasoline consumption.
And let’s say there are only two kinds of cars in the world. Half of them are Suburbans that get 10 miles to the gallon and half are Priuses that get 50.
If we assume that all the cars drive the same number of miles, which would be a better investment:
• Get new tires for all the Suburbans and increase their mileage a bit to 13 miles per gallon.
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• Replace all the Priuses and rewire them to get 100 miles per gallon (doubling their average!)
Just in Time Teaching Resources
Similar to Peer Instruction, with some small variations. Math JiTT resources are around too.
The Physics of Road Runner
My physics teacher did this with us back in 1994, but he had to get up saturday morning and record the show off the tv. I distinctly recall the poor quality of the video and my enjoyment of the activity.
