Energy & Environment

Schedule 2024-2025


26 August - 30 August Monday 26 2:00 pm @ SC 107 first day of our class Classes begin	Energy and the Environment Composing and handing in assignments on Moodle
2 September - 6 September Monday 2 Labor Day, no class Tuesday 3 Drop-Add deadline, 5 PM	An operational definition of energy Patterns of experience - Gravitational energy?
9 September - 13 September	[2.4] Orders of magnitude and Goldilocks Work and Kinetic Energy [6.3] Human power Power [6.7]
16 September - 20 September	Practicing unit conversions Anecdotes, numbers, context / conversions Gravity and Kinetic energy: exercises [*] Paragraphs (W) Climate of Man
23 September - 27 September	"Seeing" heat, and the Greenhouse Effect
30 September - 4 October Monday 30 Community Engagement Day (CA) - no class Friday 4 Quiz 1 - units / KE GravE Saturday 5 Homecoming	Atoms / Matter [2.1, 2.2] History of climate change research Know your atmosphere / humidity Project Drawdown - solutions Test1 (+quiz) study guide
7 October - 11 October Monday 7 Test 1	Measuring carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere
14 October - 18 October Monday 14 Midterm break through Wed Oct 16	Atoms! / Chemical Energy / Chemical Reactions Feedback cycles and global climate Annotated bibliography
21 October - 25 October Monday 21 Academic advising begins	Some positive positive feedbacks Refining your topic
28 October - 1 November	Atomic weight Carbon / Water cycles and GWPs Citations Writing project XKCD - Temperature timeline
4 November - 8 November	Combustion Burning hydrocarbons Electricity - generation and distribution Electricity and "the grid"
11 November - 15 November	Here come the COPs / IPCC / NCA Citations + TurnItIn "similarity" Electric generation: Capacity Factor GWPs / radiative "forcing"
18 November - 22 November	Making money...from conservation
25 November - 29 November Wednesday 27 Thanksgiving break through Fri Nov 29 No class (conference / work on final draft)	Draft 1 response Preparing for the final exam Research paper Acid Rain - a success story
2 December - 6 December Thursday 5 Last day of classes Please complete your course evaluations. Friday 6 Reading day Final exam, starting at 8:30
9 December - 13 December Monday 9 Final exams through Wed Dec 11