Evaluating a Surprising Claim

• Autores: Howard C. Hayden
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 51, Nº. 8, 2013, págs. 493-494
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A television advertisement and a website 1 present an interesting question: can rail company CSX really move a ton of freight 468 miles on a gallon of fuel, or is the claim preposterous? Let us examine the claim, first by understanding what is meant, looking at their data, and then converting units to examine the claim quantitatively.