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Week
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Class
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Date | Day |
Homework Due |
Wolfson
Sections |
Muller
Sections |
Topic |
| 1 | 1 | Aug 27 | T | Introduction | Introduction | ||
| 2 | Aug 29 | R | Critical Role of Energy in 21st century | ||||
| 2 | 3 | Sep 3 | T | Ch. 2 | Sec. IV | What is Energy? | |
| 4 | Sep 5 | R | Energy Units | ||||
| 3 | 5 | Sep 10 | T | Ch. 3 | Conservation of Energy | ||
| 6 | Sep 12 | R | Energy Sources | ||||
| Sep 13 | F | HW-1 | |||||
| 4 | 7 | Sep 17 | T | Ch. 4 | Sec. II | Thermal Energy | |
| 8 | Sep 19 | R | Heat Engines | ||||
| 5 | 9 | Sep 24 | T | Ch. 11 | Heat Pumps / Electrical Energy | ||
| 10 | Sep 26 | R | Ch. 5 | Ch. 4-6, 14 | Fossil Energy | ||
| Sep 27 | F | HW-2 | |||||
| 6 | 11 | Oct 1 | T | Fossil Energy | |||
| 12 | Oct 3 | R | Ch. 6 | Ch. 2 | Environmental Impact of Fossil Energy | ||
| 7 | 13 | Oct 8 | T | Ch. 7 | Ch. 1 | Radiation and Radioactivity | |
| Oct 10 | R | Midterm 1 (Lectures 1-9) | |||||
| 8 | Oct 15 | T | Reading Day | ||||
| 14 | Oct 17 | R | Radiation and Radioactivity | ||||
| Oct 18 | F | HW-3 | |||||
| 9 | 15 | Oct 22 | T | Ch. 11, 12 | Nuclear Energy | ||
| 16 | Oct 24 | R | Ch. 11, 12 | Energy from Earth and Moon | |||
| 10 | 17 | Oct 29 | T | Ch. 8 | Ch. 15 | Indirect Energy from the Sun | |
| 18 | Oct 31 | R | Ch. 10 | Ch. 8, 13 | Direct Energy from the Sun | ||
| Nov 1 | F | HW-4 | |||||
| 11 | Nov 5 | T | Election Day | ||||
| 19 | Nov 7 | R | Ch. 9 | Ch. 9 | Storing Energy | ||
| 20 | Nov 12 | T | Ch. 10 | Cost of Energy | |||
| Nov 14 | R | Midterm 2 (Lectures 10-18) | |||||
| 13 | 21 | Nov 19 | T | Ch. 1, 12 | Ch. 3 | The Science of climate 1 | |
| 22 | Nov 21 | R | Ch. 13 | The Science of climate 2 | |||
| 14 | 23 | Nov 26 | T | Ch. 14 | Future Climates | ||
| Nov 28 | R | Thanksgiving | |||||
| 15 | 24 | Dec 3 | T | Ch. 15 | Ch. 7, 16-19 | Remediations | |
| 25 | Dec 5 | R | Ch. 16 | Sec. V | Remediations | ||
| Dec 17 | T | Final Exam | 1400-1700 | ||||