Session:
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Introductory Courses II
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Paper Type:
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Contributed
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Title:
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Road Capacity with a Steady Flow of Traffic
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Meeting:
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2018 Summer Meeting: Washington, DC |
Location:
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Date:
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Time:
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3:20PM
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Author:
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Percy Whiting,, Portland Community College,
503-774-6599, percywhiting@gmail.com
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Co-Author(s):
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Leonid Minkin,
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Abstract:
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Problems of optimization in natural science, technology, economics, and management are of great interest. Students also usually find them intriguing. However, the selection of such problems in undergraduate physics textbooks is very limited and should be broadened. To that end, a model of traffic flow optimization, simple enough for undergraduates to analyze, is presented here. This problem, which students can easily relate to their everyday experience, will acquaint them with concepts useful in hydrodynamics, electrostatics, and electric current models.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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sm2018_Whiting_Road Capacity with a Steady Flow of Traffic.pdf
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