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Date |
Topic |
NOTES |
| 1/9 |
Course Introduction, | Chapter 1: Read Chapters 1 and 2 including Special Topics (reading assignments before the next lecture is for your benefit). Homework 1: Due Friday Lecture. |
| 1/11 | Energy Overview | Guest Lecture Richard Heinberg |
| 1/13 | Energy Overview | Optional Movie available at Knight Library IMC Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis Call # Videotape 01698Homework 1due. Hand in at Lecture |
| 1/16 | Martin Luther King | |
| 1/18 | Newton's Laws | |
| 1/20 | Motion and Energy, Units | Interactive Lab Activity: Power Click Here to access asssignment and the movie. |
| 1/23 | Energy Conversion Efficeincy and Review Motion, Energy and Power. |
Homework 2 and Power Activity due Hand in at Lecture. |
| 1/25 | 27 Chapter 5 Questions 1, 3, 5, 10 Problems1, 4Lecture Activity | Homework 3 Hand in at Lecture Interactive Lecture Activity: Energy Conversion |
| 1/27 | Heat Capacity, Intro to Thermodynamics | Energy Conversion Activity due. Hand in at Lecture |
| 1/30 | Heat Transfer | |
| 2/1 | Heat Transfer Review for exam | Homework 4 Hand in at Lecture |
| 2/3 | Exam #1 MIDTERM EXAM ON CHAPTERS 1-4 PHYSICS PRINCIPLES | Exam covers Chapters 1- 4 Sample Exam Here |
| 2/6 | Energy Conservation | Read Chapter 5 Sections A-E for today's class |
| 2/8 | Solar Energy Chapter 6 Solar Radiation | |
| 2/10 | Solar Energy Chapter 6 Solar Hot Water Systems, |
Homework 5 Due |
| 2/13 | Solar Energy Chapter 6 Solar Hot Water Systems, Passive Solar Homes |
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| 2/15 | Passive Solar Homes Solar Energy Storage and other issues Intro to Electricity |
Homework 6 Due |
| 2/17 | Passive Solar Homes Solar Energy Storage and other issues Intro to Electricity |
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| 2/20 | Electricity and Ohm's Law Chapter 10 | |
| 2/22 | Electricity Lecture Activity Experiment 1 Special Review Thursday 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Room 123 Pacific |
Homework 7 Due |
| 2/24 | Exam 2: Chapters 5,6 10 | Exam 2 Study Guide |
| 2/27 | Electricity Lecture Activity Experiment 2 Chapter 10, Electromagnetism Ch 11 Sections A and B | Falling Mass Generator Movie |
| 3/1 | Batteries and Fuel Cells | Hand In Electricity Activity Arcing Movie |
| 3/3 | Chapter 11and Generating Electricty Electrical Power Plants |
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| 3/6 | Heat Engines Chapter 4 Section E Heat Engines Steam Power Plants |
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| 3/8 | Wave Particle Duality (Inteference and Xray Links) Electricity from Solar, |
Homework 8 Due |
| 3/10 | Electricity from Solar, & Wind Chapter 12, | |
| 3/13 | Wind Global Future, Energy Storage, Batteries and Hydrogen. | |
| 3/15 | Energy Storage II (from HC 441 Course), | Homework 9 Due |
| 3/17 | Alternative Energy Overview | |
| 3/23 | Final Exam 10:15p.m. |
