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Define friction as a contact force and apply the concept of friction to NASCAR tires.
Explain how headwinds, tailwinds, and crosswinds can act as unbalanced forces on stock cars and list ways drivers might account for these unbalanced forces.
Discuss ways that NASCAR keeps its drivers and spectators safe in dangerous weather conditions.
Explain how heat affects stock car tire pressure and how race teams correct for this change.

SC.6.P.13.1: Investigate and describe types of forces including contact forces and forces acting at a distance, such as electrical, magnetic, and gravitational.
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SC.6.P.13.3: Investigate and describe that an unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed, or direction of motion, or both.
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SC.6.E.7.8: Describe ways human beings protect themselves from hazardous weather and sun exposure.
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SC.7.P.11.1: Recognize that adding heat to or removing heat from a system may result in a temperature change and possibly a change of state.
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