Purpose: Learning by teaching is a popular pedagogical tool in education on. The act of learning material to teach to another often leaves the teacher in a stronger position on of understanding and results in higher confidence. Since dimensional analysis is such an important tool for you in your future classes and, more importantly, careers, it has been identified as a major learning objective of this course. You will master the method of dimensional analysis by preparing your own Youtube tutorial on the topic by solving the given problem using dimensional analysis.
Problem To Solve:
Scenario: you have a very bad head-ache so you run to the pharmacy to grab some medicine and are immediately over-whelmed with your options. You don’t have any allergies or sensitivities to any of the over the counter headache medicines, so you decide to buy the cheapest op on to cure YOUR headache.
Availability: Excedrin is available as a 200 caplet bottle for $15.51 and each caplet contains 250mg of acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Excedrin). Advil is available as a 300 tablet bottle for $15.00 and each tablet contains 200-mg of ibuprofen (the active ingredient in Advil). Tylenol is available as a 225 pill bottle for $14.97 and each pill contains 500 mg of paracetamol (the active ingredient in Tylenol).
Dosage Informa on: Paracetamol is dosed at 102 mg per 15 pounds of body mass. Ibuprofen is dosed at 113 mg per 25 pounds of body mass. Acetaminophen is dosed as 240 mg per 35 pounds of body mass. Active Ingredient Informa on: Acetaminophen has the chemical formula C8H9NO2. Ibuprofen has the chemical formula C13H18O2. Paracetamol has the chemical formula C8H9NO2.
How: Calculate the cost of treating your own headache for each medicine based on your body weight.
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