Staff: Prof. Gordon Aubrecht
Texts: Energy , G. Aubrecht (Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995)
Meeting Place and Time: 385 Morrill Hall, W, F 10:00-11:48, R 10:00-10:48
January 3, hour 1 Lecture 0
Course Introduction
3, hour 2 Lecture I
Problems, Scientific Units,
Estimates and Limits
4 Lecture II
Energy
5, hour 1 Lecture III
How We Use Energy
5, hour 2 Meeting period
8, hour 1 (note special day) Help period
Outlines and Presentations
8, hour 2 Test period (I & II)
10 no class
11 no class
12, hour 1 Lecture IV
Consumption of Electrical Energy
12, hour 2 Meeting period
17, hour 1 Lecture V
Production and Distribution of Electricity
17, hour 2 Test period (III & IV)
18 Presentation 1/2
Energy-World Coal Production/World Oil Production
19, hour 1 Lecture VI
Chemical Energy; Heats of Combustion
19, hour 2 Presentation 3/4
Energy-World Gas Production/Hydroelectric Power
24, hour 1 Lecture VII
Efficiency of Energy Generation
24, hour 2 Test period (V & VI)
25 Presentation 5/6
Pollution-The Greenhouse Effect/Ozone Depletion
26, hour 1 Lecture VIII
Thermodynamics I
26, hour 2 Presentation 7/8
Pollution-Acid Rain/Indoor Air Pollution
31, hour 1 Lecture IX
Thermodynamics II
31, hour 2 Test Period (VII & VIII)
February 1 Presentation & Meeting period
2, hour 1 Lecture X
Environmental Effects of
Utilities
2, hour 2 Meeting period
7, hour 1 Lecture XI
Pollution from Fossil Fuels
7, hour 2 Meeting period
8 Test Period (IX & X)
9, hour 1 Lecture XII
Moving down the Road
9, hour 2 Presentations
Conservation-Transportation/Population Control
14, hour 1 Lecture XIII
Conservation
14, hour 2 Presentations Alternatives-Solar Energy/Wind Energy
15 Test Period (XI & XII)
16, hour 1 Lecture XIV
Nuclear Energy
16, hour 2 Presentations
Alternatives-Electric Cars
21, hour 1 Lecture XV
Energy from Nuclear Reactions
21, hour 2 Lecture XVI Safety and Nuclear Energy
22 Test Period (XIII & XIV)
23, hour 1 Lecture XVII
Energy Storage and Energy Alternatives
23, hour 2 Meeting Period
28, hour 1 Lecture XVIII
Recycling and Reuse
28, hour 2 Meeting period
March 1 Test Period (XV, XVI, XVII & XVIII)
2, hour 1 Meeting period
2, hour 2 Meeting period
7, hour 1
Term Paper Presentation
7, hour 2
Term Paper Presentation
8
Term Paper Presentation
9, hour 1 Term Paper Presentation
9, hour 2 Term Paper Presentation
9
All Term Papers Due to be turned in by today at the latest
14
Test Period; Final paper due by today noon at the latest