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Categories: Enrico Fermi, All articles needing additional references, Dimensional analysis, Physics education
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Fermi problem  Fermi's question  Fermi calculation  Fermi estimate  Fermi estimates
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In physics or engineering education, a Fermi problem, also known as a order-of-magnitude problem, is an estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis or approximation of extreme scientific calculations, and such a problem is usually a back-of-the-envelope calculation. Wikipedia
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In physics or engineering education, a Fermi problem, also known as a order-of-magnitude problem, is an estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis or approximation of extreme scientific calculations, and such a problem is usually a back-of-the-envelope calculation. Wikipedia
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