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====== Project 8: Part A: CSI East Lansing Part 1 ====== | ====== Project 8: Part A: CSI East Lansing Part 1 ====== | ||
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You are a group of scientists who are a member of an elite crime scene investigation unit who focus on traffic accidents. You have been called to the scene of an accident between two cars. Your initial assessment allows you to come to the conclusion that one of the cars has obviously run into the back of the other. Your team finds brake marks on the road. After examining the scene of the accident you conclude that one of the cars, a Volkswagen New Beetle was parked with its handbrake on and only the driver in it before the accident, while the other car, an Audi tt had a single male occupant (33 years old) who crashed into the back of the Beetle. | You are a group of scientists who are a member of an elite crime scene investigation unit who focus on traffic accidents. You have been called to the scene of an accident between two cars. Your initial assessment allows you to come to the conclusion that one of the cars has obviously run into the back of the other. Your team finds brake marks on the road. After examining the scene of the accident you conclude that one of the cars, a Volkswagen New Beetle was parked with its handbrake on and only the driver in it before the accident, while the other car, an Audi tt had a single male occupant (33 years old) who crashed into the back of the Beetle. | ||
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====== Project 8: Part B: CSI East Lansing Part 2 ====== | ====== Project 8: Part B: CSI East Lansing Part 2 ====== | ||
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You want to double-check your findings as you are sure to be called as an expert witness. Your esteemed colleague Dr. Elizabeth Shaw suggests solving the problem from an energy perspective rather than a momentum perspective to check your results. | You want to double-check your findings as you are sure to be called as an expert witness. Your esteemed colleague Dr. Elizabeth Shaw suggests solving the problem from an energy perspective rather than a momentum perspective to check your results. | ||
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====== Project 8: Part C: CSI East Lansing Part 3 ====== | ====== Project 8: Part C: CSI East Lansing Part 3 ====== | ||
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The Audi TT drivers lawyer feels as if they have come up with a foolproof scientific argument as to why their client was speeding. They indicate that the car was actually traveling up an incline of 8 degrees when it started breaking. You have been brought in as an expert witness to indicate whether this is true or not. | The Audi TT drivers lawyer feels as if they have come up with a foolproof scientific argument as to why their client was speeding. They indicate that the car was actually traveling up an incline of 8 degrees when it started breaking. You have been brought in as an expert witness to indicate whether this is true or not. | ||
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====== Project 8: Part D: CSI East Lansing Part 4 ====== | ====== Project 8: Part D: CSI East Lansing Part 4 ====== | ||
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The Honorable Judge Judge Reinhold | The Honorable Judge Judge Reinhold | ||
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====== Project 8: Part E: Space Force Defense ====== | ====== Project 8: Part E: Space Force Defense ====== | ||
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+ | ====== Project 8: Part F: Create Your Own Problem ====== | ||
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+ | The four exam problem descriptions are now available on Lon Capa. You must take two of those problems and combine them together in order to create a revision problem that addresses the concepts of those problems as laid out in the description. You must create the problem and solution and these will be posted online as a study guide for everyone. Similar to the idea that having to explain one's understanding will often result in a stronger understanding | ||
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