COURSE GUIDE

CALENDAR  

Wk	Slides	Excel	Lab
1			Intro Session
2			Newton's Laws of Motion
3			Energy Transformations
4			Specific Heat Capacity
5			Newton's Law of Cooling
6			Measurement of Insolation
7			Coal / CO2 Lab
8			Air Pollution
9			GW Lab
10			Watts Up and Circuits Labs
11		JAVA	Batteries, Ohm's Law and Electromagnetism
12			Wind Power / Hydropower
			THANKSGIVING
13			Geiger Counter / What Things are Radioactive?
14			Radioactive Decay / Cloud chamber
15			No Class

ALTERNATIVE LABS

• Watts Up
• IR Absorption
• Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
• How to see radiation
• Slow Free Fall
• Rotational Dynamics
• Fuel Cells
• Specific Heat Capacity
• Diffusion
• Gas Laws
• Stefan-Boltzmann Law
• Half Life
• Absorption of Beta and Gamma Radiation
• Radon Detection

EQUIPMENT

Lab Equipment

• Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
• Stefan-Boltzman lab
• ST360 GM counter
• Suntracker
• Micro T
• Kid Wind
   
• 6 x 60 cm plastic tubes that fit photogates
• 6 x Watts Up Pro
  Kill A Watt x 3
• Energy House - Educational Innovations
• Platinum wire for fuel cell demo
• New Fuel Cell Model
• Cloud chamber
• Advanced Radiation Kit
• Apogee Pyranometer - http://www.apogeeinstruments.com/pyranometer_specsheets.htm
• CO2 meter - http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/esi/1998/p/energy/
• KidWInd geared PVC turbine - http://www.kidwind.org/xcart/product.php?productid=42&cat=4&page=1
• Coal samples from Argon labs - http://www.anl.gov/PCS/
• Sun Nuclear 1029 Radon Detector + case

MOVIES

Air Pollution

• SO2

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
• Newton's Second Law - http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/Education/outreach/8thGradeSOL/Newtons2Frm.htm

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
• Carbon sequestration lab - http://www.keystonecurriculum.org/html/geo_sequestration_lab.HTM
• Coal / CO2 lab - http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/esi/1998/p/energy/

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

Solar Radiation:

• Solar energy - http://webphysics.davidson.edu/faculty/lc/home%20exer%204.htm
• Book - http://www.springerlink.com/content/m454772h2l41600r/
• Build your own pryranometer - http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/construction/pyranometer/pyranometer.htm

Air Pollution:

• JCE Demos - http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA3/MAIN/SO2PROP/PAGE1.HTM
• EP model - http://www.uq.edu.au/_School_Science_Lessons/UNPh34.html#34.4.5
• EP diagram - http://www.uq.edu.au/_School_Science_Lessons/34.4.3.GIF

Magnetism:

• Physics Education technology PhET - http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php?cat=Electricity_Magnets_and_Circuits