COURSE GUIDE  

CALENDAR  

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Slides

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1 Intro Session 1: Introduction

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2: Energy Mechanics

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3: Conservation of Energy

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4: Heat and Work
5 5: Home Energy Conservation and Heat Transfer
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6: Solar Energy: Characteristics and Heating

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7: Energy from Fossil Fuels

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8: Air Pollution and Energy Use
9 9: Global Warming, Ozone Depletion, and Waste Heat

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10: Electricity: Circuits and Superconductors

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11: Electromagnetism and the Generation of Electricity

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12: Electricity from Solar, Wind, and Hydro
   

THANKSGIVING

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13: The Building Blocks of Matter

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14: Nuclear Power

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COURSEWORK

List of problems

DEMOS

Encyclopedia of Physics demos

MOVIES

List of related movies

Excerpts

Models

ANIMATIONS

Greenhouse Effect animation

REFERENCES

General

List of related references

TESTS

Require Adobe Acrobat to open. Tests from 2006 and 2007 are from the old text book.

CLASS PHOTOS - 2007

LINKS

Some useful sites:

Forces

Energy

Heat and Radiation

Solar Energy

Fossil Fuels

Air Pollution

Climate Change, Ozone and Thermal Pollution

Electricity

Electromagnetism

Solar, Wind and Hydro

Nuclear Power and Radioactivity