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Data Set for CHAPTER 4


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A car with manual transmission was driven on a long straight horizontal road at 55 mph. The car was taken out of gear and let roll to a stop. The time in seconds at which the car was traveling at 55, 50,..., 10, 5, and 0 mph was recorded in the first column. Data from "Determining the air drag on a car" by J.E. Farr, The Physics Teacher, May 1983, 320-321.


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1st col 2nd col
0.0 55
4.7 50
9.6 45
15.6 40
23.1 35
31.1 30
40.3 25
53.3 20