MIT RES.TLL-004 Concept Vignettes
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Instructor: Sanjoy Mahajan
This video leads students through an approximation technique to compute the fuel efficiency of a car moving at highway speeds, by using dimensional analysis and a simple experiment to identify the exponents in a formula for the drag force on a car.
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