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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 26 | T | Introduction | Introduction | ||
| 2 | Aug 28 | R | Critical Role of Energy in 21st century | ||||
| 2 | 3 | Sep 2 | T | Ch. 2 | Sec. IV | What is Energy? | |
| 4 | Sep 4 | R | Energy Units | ||||
| Sep 5 | F | HW-1 | |||||
| 3 | 5 | Sep 9 | T | Ch. 3 | Conservation of Energy | ||
| 6 | Sep 11 | R | Energy Sources | ||||
| Sep 12 | F | HW-2 | |||||
| 4 | 7 | Sep 16 | T | Ch. 4 | Sec. II | Thermal Energy | |
| 8 | Sep 18 | R | Heat Engines | ||||
| Sep 19 | F | HW-3 | |||||
| 5 | 9 | Sep 23 | T | Ch. 11 | Heat Pumps / Electrical Energy | ||
| 10 | Sep 25 | R | Ch. 5 | Ch. 4-6, 14 | Fossil Energy | ||
| Sep 26 | F | HW-4 | |||||
| 6 | 11 | Sep 30 | T | Fossil Energy | |||
| 12 | Oct 2 | R | Ch. 6 | Ch. 2 | Environmental Impact of Fossil Energy | ||
| 7 | Oct 7 | T | Reading Day | ||||
| 8 | 13 | Oct 9 | R | Ch. 7 | Ch. 1 | Radiation and Radioactivity | |
| Oct 14 | T | Midterm 1 (Lectures 1-9) | |||||
| 14 | Oct 16 | R | Radiation and Radioactivity | ||||
| Oct 17 | F | HW-5 | |||||
| 9 | 15 | Oct 21 | T | Ch. 11, 12 | Nuclear Energy | ||
| 16 | Oct 23 | R | Ch. 11, 12 | Energy from Earth and Moon | |||
| 10 | 17 | Oct 28 | T | Ch. 8 | Ch. 15 | Indirect Energy from the Sun | |
| 18 | Oct 30 | R | Ch. 10 | Ch. 8, 13 | Direct Energy from the Sun | ||
| Oct 31 | F | HW-6 | |||||
| 11 | Nov 4 | T | Election Day | ||||
| 19 | Nov 6 | R | Ch. 9 | Ch. 9 | Storing Energy | ||
| 12 | 20 | Nov 11 | T | Ch. 10 | Cost of Energy | ||
| 21 | Nov 13 | R | Ch. 1, 12 | Ch. 3 | The Science of climate 1 | ||
| 13 | Nov 18 | T | Midterm 2 (Lectures 10-18) | ||||
| 22 | Nov 20 | R | Ch. 13 | The Science of climate 2 | |||
| Nov 21 | F | HW-7 | |||||
| 14 | 23 | Nov 25 | T | Ch. 14 | Future Climates | ||
| Nov 27 | R | Thanksgiving | |||||
| 15 | 24 | Dec 2 | T | Ch. 15 | Ch. 7, 16-19 | Remediations | |
| 25 | Dec 4 | R | Ch. 16 | Sec. V | Remediations | ||
| 16 | 26 | Dec 9 | T | Ch. 16 | Sec. V | Remediations | |
| Dec 16 | T | Final Exam (comprehensive) | 1400-1700 | ||||