Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

DOI

10.1119/1.5124261

Publication Title

The Physics Teacher

Volume

57

Issue

6

Pages

A430-A431

Abstract

How much weight would you lose climbing stairs every day (assuming that neither diet nor metabolism changes in response to the extra effort)? The California Assembly voted to ban single-use hotel shampoo bottles. Thus our 6000 tons of shampoo bottles amounts to 30 parts per million of our total trash. [Extracted from the article]

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Weinstein, L. (2019). Solutions for fermi questions, September 2019: Question 1: Losing weight; Question 2: Shampoo bottles. Physics Teacher, 57(6), A430-A431.

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Original Publication Citation

Weinstein, L. (2019). Solutions for fermi questions, September 2019: Question 1: Losing weight; Question 2: Shampoo bottles. Physics Teacher, 57(6), A430-A431. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5124261

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