Energy & Environment

Schedule 2024-2025


26 August - 30 August Monday 26 2:00 pm @SC 106 Classes begin	Energy and the Environment An operational definition of energy Composing and handing in assignments on Moodle Patterns of experience - Gravitational energy? Power [6.7]
2 September - 6 September Monday 2 Labor Day, no class Tuesday 3 Drop-Add deadline, 5 PM	Exponents [2.4] Orders of magnitude and Goldilocks Human power Household and Solar Power
9 September - 13 September	Practicing unit conversions Anecdotes, numbers, context / conversions Energy of moving bodies [6.3] Gravity and Kinetic energy: exercises
16 September - 20 September	Atoms / Matter [2.1, 2.2] Moving atoms and temperature [2.3] [*] Paragraphs (W) plus
23 September - 27 September Wednesday 25 Librarian Eric Bradley will talk about research and library resources.	Atoms! / Chemical Energy / Chemical Reactions "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	Know your atmosphere / humidity Work = Force times Distance Thermal and electrical energy Project Drawdown - solutions Hurricanes Test1 (+quiz) study guide Climate of Man
7 October - 11 October Friday 11 Test 1
14 October - 18 October Monday 14 Midterm break through Wed Oct 16	History of climate change research
21 October - 25 October Monday 21 Academic advising begins	Measuring carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere Feedback cycles and global climate Some positive positive feedbacks Carbon / Water cycles and GWPs
28 October - 1 November	Annotated bibliography Citations Electricity - generation and distribution Water vapor in a warming world Refining your topic
4 November - 8 November	Atomic weight Combustion comparison Here come the COPs / IPCC / NCA + feelings Electricity and "the grid"
11 November - 15 November Friday 15 Guest prof: John Buschert	Citations + TurnItIn "similarity" Energy transition and efficiency Electric generation: Capacity Factor GWPs / radiative "forcing" Writing project
18 November - 22 November Monday 18 First draft due, then sign up for a conference** with Paul	Acid Rain - a success story Ozone hole?-Satellite data Making money...from conservation
25 November - 29 November Wednesday 27 Thanksgiving break through Fri Nov 29	Draft 1 response Research paper
2 December - 6 December Thursday 5 Last day of classes Please complete your course evaluations. Friday 6 Reading day	Ozone depletion (+ Solvable)
9 December - 13 December Monday 9 Final exams through Wed Dec 11 Wednesday 11 Final exam and presentation of paper highlights in small groups starting at 8:30 Final draft of your paper due at 5PM	Preparing for the final exam