Hamline Univ. 2009 Summer Session 1, Tentative Schedule

  Physics 1110, Energy Environment, & the Economy (EEE)

 

Monday, 8 June

Introduction and Vote of Topics.

BASICS I

(Read Bartlett Article, Chapter1) Course Guidelines Handed Out

 

Tuesday, 9 June

BASICS II (Text Chapter 1) Discuss Bartlett Article (Hand out Syllabus, Unit Conversion, Problem Set 1); 10:30 - 12 Noon: Lab 1: Excel

 

Wednesday, 10 June

BASICS III (Text Chapter 1) through LAB 1.

Energy consumption in US and Abroad.

(Hand out PS 2 and LAB 2)

 

Thursday, 11 June

BASICS IV through LAB 2.

10:30 - 12 Noon: Lab 2: Power Lab

TEST 1

(Hand out LAB 3; Week-end Reading: Chap. 2,3,and 6)

 

Monday, 15 June

Text Chapter 2: Fossil Fuels: Oil/Natural Gas, Coal

 

LAB 2 DUE 5 PM

 

Tuesday, 16 June

Text Chapter 3:

Coal Continued; Power Plants.

Begin Radioactivity.

10:30 - 12 Noon:

Lab 4: Heat of Fusion

 

Wednesday, 17 June

Text Chapter 6:

Radioactivity cont’d; Nuclear Power

 

LAB 3 DUE: 4 PM

 

Thursday, 18 June

Nuclear Continued; Nuclear Fusion, MHD

(Week-end Reading: Chap. 6,7,4, and 5)

Decision: TP, SOP, or LP.    TEST 2

 

Monday, 22 June

Text Chapter 7

Conservation

BASICS through LAB 5

 

Tuesday, 23 June

Text Chapter 4

Lab 5 Continued.

 

10:30 - 12 Noon:

Lab 6: Measurement of the Specific Heat of an Unknown

 

Wednesday, 24 June

Text Chapter 5

Solar Energy; Other Renewable Energy Resources; Energy Economics

 

 

Thursday, 25 June

Lab 5 Discussion

[TOPIC DEADLINE: TERM PAPER, SOP, OR LABORATORY PROJECT]

(Week-end Reading: Chap. 8,9, and 10)

TEST 3

 

Monday, 29 June

Text Chapter 8

Transportation; Mass Transit; Land/food/population

Conflict; Food Production

 

Tuesday, 30 June

Text Chapter 9,10

Environmental Concerns; Start political aspects US and World (OPEC)

LAB 5 DUE: 4 PM

 

Wednesday, 1 July

Political Aspects: US and World (OPEC)

SOPs given.

LAB PROJECT OR TERM PAPER DUE

 

Thursday, 2 July

 

 

TEST 4