University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), 2013 Spring,
Location: Flora Dungan Humanities (FDH) 105???
or
Robert L. Bigelow Physics (BPB) 217???,
Time: TR 2:30--3:45, 3 hours, 3 credit hours,
Instructor: Prof. George Rhee
Sections and Links
Caption: "Global Wind Power
Cumulative Installed Capacity (Data source: GWEC, Global Wind Statistics
2011."
We need to break the terawatt barrier: 1000 GW.
The world uses about 15 TW of commercial power
(Wikipedia: World energy consumption).
Credit/Permission:
© User:S-kei,
2011 /
Creative Commons
CC BY-SA 1.0.
Image linked to Wikipedia.
This is a survey course on energy issues, including the challenges facing us today.
Simple physics will be introduced to analyze production and consumption of energy
and their impact on the environment. The level is set for beginning students in any field.
Credits 3
Also see: PHYS 108L --- Physics for a Better Environment Laboratory.
Laboratory exercises on energy issues, including the challenges facing us today.
Simple physics experiments will be used to analyze the
work-energy relationship, energy conservation,
and environment related energy problems.
Credits 1: Prerequisites PHYS 108, or concurrent registration in PHYS 108.
Online descriptions:
These are recent articles of interest in the
general area of sustainability.
The symbol ♠ is used to mark degree of interest in the opinion of yours truly:
the more ♠'s the more interest.
Of course, every article must be taken
cum grano salis.
This file was updated (but probably not for the last time) 2012nov30 Friday
Textbook: David J. C. Mackay (1967--):
Sustainable Energy---Without the Hot Air,
370 pages. See also HTML version.
Maintained (if that is the word) by
David J. Jeffery,
Email: jeffery@physics.nhn.edu