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Larry Jaques Larry Jaques is offline
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Default Science of NASCAR

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:40:22 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:

Here's an interesting story about the physics of NASCAR racing, as it's
described in a new book, and about the science teacher who wrote it to
"enliven" the science curriculum at public schools. The article doesn't tell
you much itself but there are some leads there for anyone interested:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/sc...ed=1&8dpc&_r=1


WTF is "nonintuitive physics"?!? As my BIL used to say "Sounds like
something from the woo-woo sector."

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