CALENDAR
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Week |
Slides |
Coursework |
Chapter |
Test |
Exercise |
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Intro |
 |
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1-2 |
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1 |
Earth's Atmosphere |
1 |
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3-4 |
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2 |
Warming the Earth |
2 |
Heat
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5-6 |
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3 |
Air Temperature |
3 |
Cold
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7-8 |
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4 |
Humidity, Condensation and Clouds |
4 |
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9-10 |
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5 |
Cloud Development and Precipitation |
5 |
Wet
 |
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11-12 |
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6 |
Air Pressure and Winds |
6 |
Wind
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13-14 |
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Atmospheric Circulations |
7 |
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15 |
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No Class |
MOVIES
Supercooled nucleation
- Chalk added to -6 C water 2005
REFERENCES
Earth's Atmosphere
- Birk, J.P., McGrath, L., and Gunter, S.K. (1981)
A general chemistry experiment for the determination of the oxygen
content of air. Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 58, No. 10, pp.
804-805.
- Martins, G.F. (1987) Percent oxygen in air.
Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 64, No. 9, pp. 809-810.
Warming the Earth
- Carlone, 1983
- Dennis, 1980
- Bohren, 1982
- Bohren, C.F. (1991) The Greenhouse Effect
Revisited.
- Solar Irradiance
Lab
Temperature Inversions
- Bohren, C.F. and Bohren, G.M. (1981)
Temperature Inversions Have Cold Bottoms. Weatherwise, December, pp.
273-276.
- Bohren, C.F. (1987) Temperature Inversions
Have Cold Bottoms. In Bohren, C.F., What Light Through Yonder Window
Breaks? Dover Pubblications, pp. 121-128.
- Heckerthorn, D. (1987) A Density
Demonstration. The Physics Teacher, January, pp. 39.
Supercooled Water and Ice Crystals
- Bohren, C.F. (1987) Why Rainbows are not
Impossible in Winter. In Bohren, C.F., Clouds in a Glass of Beer.
John Wiley, NY.
- Schaefer, V.J. (1979 Simple Experiments in
Atmospheric Physics-1: Making a Cold Box. Weatherwise, June, pp.
130-131.
- Schaefer, V.J. (1979 Simple Experiments in
Atmospheric Physics-4: The Formation of Ice Crystals by Sublimation.
Weatherwise, December, pp. 256-257.
- Schaefer, V.J. (1979 Simple Experiments in
Atmospheric Physics: Nuclei, Water Drops and ice Crystals. Weatherwise,
August, pp. 172-173.
- Schaefer, V.J. (1980) Simple Experiments in
Atmospheric Physics-5: Silver Iodide as an Ice Nucleus. Weatherwise,
pp. 80-82.
- Schaefer, V.J. (1980) Simple Experiments in
Atmospheric Physics-6: The Preparation of Snow Crystal Replicas.
Weatherwise, June, pp. 129-131.
- Schaefer, V.J. (1980) Simple Experiments in
Atmospheric Physics-7: The Production of a Diamond Dust Shower.
Weatherwise, August, pp. 176-178.
Radiometer
- Woodruff, A.E. (1968) The Radiometer and How
it Does Not Work. The Physics Teacher, October, pp. 358-363.
Vortexes
- Andrade, E.N. da C. (1963) Whirlpools,
Vortices and Bath Tubs. New Scientist, No. 325, pp. 302-304.
- Shapiro, A.H. (1962) Physics: Bath-Tub Vortex.
Nature, Vol. 196, pp. 1080-1081.
- Stong, C.L. (1963) The Amateur Scientist: How
to make and investigate vortexes in water and flame. Scientific American,
October, pp. 133-142.
Rain Measurements
- Snow, J.T. and Harley, S.B. (1988) Basic
Meteorological Observations for Schools: Rainfall. Bulletin of the
American meteorological Society, Vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 497-507.
Pressure
- Meloan, C.E. (1988) A Metal bar to Demonstrate
One Atmosphere. Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp.
69.
Coriolis Force
- McDonald, J.E. (1952) The Coriolis Effect.
Scientific American, May, pp. 77-78.
Bohren, C.F. (1991) Highway Mirages.
Bohren, C.F. (1991) The Doppler Effect.
Kuharetz, B. (1985)
TESTS
- Test 3 2007
- Test 5 2007
- Test 7 2007
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