COURSE GUIDE  

CALENDAR  

Wk	Slides	M	W	F
1		Intro Session	1: Forces of Nature
2		1: Forces of Nature		Magnetic Storm
3		2: Energy
4		2: Energy	Velocity	Test 1
5		3: Heat and Radiation
6		3: Heat and Radiation
7		4: Solids, Liquids and Gases
8		4: Solids, Liquids and Gases		Test 2
9		5: The Earth's Climate and Climate Change
10		5: The Earth's Climate and Climate Change		An Inconvenient Truth
11		7: Radioactivity and Nuclear Energy
12		7: Radioactivity and Nuclear Energy
		THANKSGIVING
13		7: Radioactivity... - Chernobyl		The Battle for Chernobyl
14		7: Radioactivity and Nuclear Energy - Radon		Test 3
15		No Class

HOMEWORK PROBLEMS

List of problems

DEMOS

List of related demos

MOVIES

List of related movies

ANIMATIONS

Greenhouse Effect animation

REFERENCES

General

• List of related text books

List of related references

TESTS

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• EPhys Test 1 2006 2007
• EPhys Test 2 2006 2007
• EPhys Test 3 2006 2007

CLASS PHOTOS - 2007

LINKS

Some useful sites:

• Equipment needed

Forces

• The Truck and Ladder - http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/newtlaws/il.html
• Derivation of Constant Acceleration Equations - http://www.physchem.co.za/Graphs/Equations.htm#Equation 1
• Gravity and Gravitation - http://www.scienceclarified.com/everyday/Real-Life-Chemistry-Vol-3/Gravity-and-Gravitation.html
• The Monkey and the Hunter - http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/demo/projectiles.html
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• Centrifugal Force QT Movie - http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~vawter/PhysicsNet/QTMovies/Rotations/CentrifugalH2OMain.html

Energy

• What is Heat? - http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu//cosmic_classroom/light_lessons/thermal/heat.html
• Potential Energy - http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/forces/sciber/potkin.htm
• Micro Hydropower: The Basics - http://www.itdg.org/?id=micro_hydro_faq
• US Average Annual Wind Power - http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/maps/chap2/2-01m.html
• The Power of the Wind - http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/wres/enrspeed.htm

Heat and Radiation

• Hands-On-Physics - http://hop.concord.org/h1/phys/h1p.html
• Specific and Latent Heat - http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/specificandlatentheats/specificandlatentheats.html
• How a Refrigerator Works - http://home.howstuffworks.com/refrigerator.htm
• Formation of Clouds - http://www.atmosphere.mpg.de/enid/1__Clouds/-_Formation_of_clouds_25p.html
• Heat Transfer - http://www.oswego.edu/wscp/HEATXFER.htm
• Carnot Cycle - http://galileoandeinstein.phys.virginia.edu/more_stuff/flashlets/carnot.htm
• Geothermal Energy - http://www.geysers.com/geothermal.htm
• Future Energy - http://www.futureenergy.org/infoclean.html
• Passive Solar Design - http://www.nesea.org/buildings/passive.html
• The Dangers of EMF Radiation - http://www.mybiopro.ca/Research_Emf_Dangers.aspx?ID=supermind2
• EOM Remote Sensing Data Aquisition and Initial Processing - http://www.eomonline.com/EOM_Jul05/article.php?Article=department3

Solids, Liquids and Gases

• NA

Climate

• NASA Ozone movie - http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a000800/a000834/index.html

Radiation

• The Radon Story - http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/envsci/radon_hotline/radonstory.htm
• The Battle of Chernobyl - http://www.frif.com/new2007/batt.html