Energy & Environment

Schedule 2024-2025


28 August - 1 September Monday 28 2:00 pm @ SC 107 first day of our class	Energy and the Environment Composing and handing in assignments on Moodle
4 September - 8 September	An operational definition of energy Patterns of experience - Gravitational energy?
11 September - 15 September	[2.4] Orders of magnitude and Goldilocks Work and Kinetic Energy [6.3] Human power Power [6.7]
18 September - 22 September	Practicing unit conversions Anecdotes, numbers, context / conversions Gravity and Kinetic energy: exercises [*] Paragraphs (W) Climate of Man
25 September - 29 September Monday 25 Community Engagement Day (CA) - no class	"Seeing" heat, and the Greenhouse Effect
2 October - 6 October Friday 6 Quiz 1 - units / KE GravE	Atoms / Matter [2.1, 2.2] History of climate change research Know your atmosphere / humidity Project Drawdown - solutions Test1 (+quiz) study guide
9 October - 13 October Monday 9 Test 1	Measuring carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere
16 October - 20 October	Atoms! / Chemical Energy / Chemical Reactions Feedback cycles and global climate Annotated bibliography
23 October - 27 October Monday 23 No class! (PaulMR + covid)	Some positive positive feedbacks Refining your topic
30 October - 3 November	Atomic weight Carbon / Water cycles and GWPs Citations Writing project XKCD - Temperature timeline
6 November - 10 November	Combustion Burning hydrocarbons Electricity - generation and distribution Electricity and "the grid"
13 November - 17 November	Here come the COPs / IPCC / NCA Citations + TurnItIn "similarity" Electric generation: Capacity Factor GWPs / radiative "forcing"
20 November - 24 November	Making money...from conservation
27 November - 1 December Wednesday 29 No class (conference / work on final draft)	Draft 1 response Preparing for the final exam Research paper Acid Rain - a success story
4 December - 8 December Friday 8 Final exam, starting at 8:30
11 December - 15 December