COURSE GUIDE

CALENDAR  

Wk	Slides	Excel	Lab
	Forces of Nature
1			Slow Free Fall
2			Rotational Dynamics
	Energy
3			Hydropower
4			Fuel Cells
	Heat and Radiation
5			Specific Heat Capacity
6			Newton's Law of Cooling
	Solids, Liquids and Gases
7			Diffusion
8			Gas Laws
	The Earth's Climate and Climate Change
9			Density Currents (+ hand out Radon supplies)
10			Stefan-Boltzmann Law
	Radioactivity and Nuclear Energy
11			What Things are Radioactive?
12			Radioactive Decay
			THANKSGIVING
13			Radon Detection (Half-Life / Absorption of Beta and Gamma Radiation )
14			Radon Detection
15			No Class

ALTERNATIVE LABS

• Watts Up
• IR Absorption
• Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
• Half-Life
• Abs Beta and Gamma Radiation
• How to see radiation

EQUIPMENT

Lab Equipment

• Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
• Stefan-Boltzman lab
• ST360 GM counter
   
• 6 x 60 cm plastic tubes that fit photogates
• 6 x Watts Up Pro
• Energy House - Educational Innovations
• Hydropower kits $70 - http://www.fwee.org/store/701-makehpbasickit.html
• Wind Energy kit
• Platinum wire for fuel cell demo
• New Fuel Cell Model
• Cloud chamber
• Advanced Radiation Kit

MOVIES

Radiation

• Cloud Chamber
• Iodine Sublimation

REFERENCES

General

• List of related text books

Diffusion

• Blanck and Gonella, 2005
• Ellis, 1993
• Fate and Lynn, 1990

Gas Laws

• Edge, 1979

Newton's Law Cooling Lab

• Dennis, 1980

Radiation

• Ball, 2004
• Schultz, 1996

Radon

• Ellis, 1993
• Fleischer et al., 1981
• Field et al., 1999
• IOP, 1988
• Camplin, 1988
• RSC EChem, 1993
• Zhuo et al., 2002

CLASS PHOTOS

• Directory here
• Slideshows (Requires Java) - 2006, 2007

LINKS

Some useful sites:

• Wind Power - http://www.windpower.org/en/core.htm

Forces:

• Measurement of g - http://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/HST2002/smallexp/Kevin/gravaccel.htm
• The Freefall Experiment - http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/IYearLab/Intros/FreeFall/FreeFall.html
• Slower than 'g' - http://www.darylscience.com/Demos/SlowG.html

Energy:

• Picoturbine - http://www.picoturbine.com/projectlist.htm
• Experiments with Renewable Energy - http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=28145
• Hydropower kits - http://www.fwee.org/store/701-makehpbasickit.html
• Solar Workshop Experiment - http://www.sciencelab.com/page/S/PVAR/10296/12-623715
• Solar Powered Models - http://www.sciencelab.com/page/S/PVAR/12-623319
• Wind Turbine - http://www.kidwind.org/windshopfiles/windlab.html
• Kid Wind - http://www.kidwind.org/windshopfiles/pvcturbines.html
• Simple Fuel Cell - http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/echem/fuel_cell/fuel_cell.html
• H2 Racer - http://www.amazon.com/Horizon-P6-6020-H-Racer-Hydrogen-Station/dp/B000HRXTEK?ie=UTF8&s=office-products&qid=1175170594&sr=8-1

Radiation:

• Ludlums - http://www.ludlums.com
• Polimaster - http://www.polimaster.us
• Alphatrack - http://www.alphatrak.com
• CDV700 - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/11313
• Thesis - Radon Detectors - http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/525/01/396.html.htm
• Spectrum Techniques - http://www.spectrumtechniques.com
• How a GM Tube Works Animation - http://www.darvill.clara.net/nucrad/detect.htm
• Virtual Geiger Counter - http://www.csupomona.edu/~pbsiegel/www/vertuallab/vertlab.html