Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2020

DOI

10.1119/1.5144804

Publication Title

Physics Teacher

Volume

58

Issue

2

Pages

139-139

Abstract

[Extracted from the article] How much snow is shoveled or plowed in the U.S. in a typical winter? How much food is wasted at school cafeterias every year in the U.S.? For more Fermi questions and answers, see Guesstimation 2.0: Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin, by Lawrence Weinstein (Princeton University Press, 2012).

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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Physics Teacher, Volume 58, Issue 2, Pages 139-139 and may be found at https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1119/1.5144804

Original Publication Citation

Weinstein, L. (2020). Question 1: Plowing snow; question 2: Wasted food. Physics Teacher, 58(2), 139. doi:10.1119/1.5144804

ORCID

0000-0001-5416-2900 (Weinstein)

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