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From: James M. Scherer
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:00

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Build a database of car weights.  Research the data in maintenance manuals,
owners manuals and other auto literature and on i.d. stickers and plates on
the cars themselves.

In the contest, look up the weight of the car that most closely matches the
contest car.  To save time, convert your data to kilograms in advance.  Your
team can make corrections to your quess by trying to determime the contents
of the fuel tank (crawl under the car and tap on it?) and trunk.

I don't know if this violates the intent of the contest but it would be more
accurate than trying to approximate the volume of the car and using the 
density of steel to approximate the weight (mass).  It would certainly be
a valuable object lesson on how scientists and engineers use information.

Good Luck,
Mitch

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From: jmsche01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (James M. Scherer)
Subject: Re: School Science competition!!! Please Read...
Date: 1995/03/30
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