This will be updated frequently. I plan on following a schedule fairly similar to last year, although I want to add a unit on hydropower and some topics we'll cover in disucssion section instead of class.

Week Zero

  • Class 1 (Friday, September 7): Introduction to the course. Introductory discussion of energy, conservation of energy, and power. [class worksheet]

Week One

  • Homework Zero due on Monday, September 10 at 8:00pm.
  • Class 2: (Tuesday, September 11): [worksheet]
  • Discussion Section: Kill-a-watt meters
  • Class 3 (Friday, September 11): Read Chapter 1 of SEWTHA (MacKay) and ponder the figure on page 336. Bring questions and comments on the MacKay reading. Focus on pp. 11-16 of MacKay. Carbon emissions, relation to electricity generation, more energy and power.
  • Homework One due on Friday, September 14.

Week Two



List of assignments

  1. 1.14, 1.17, 1.18
  2. A.1, A.3, C.3, 11.1, 11.3
  3. 11.8, 11.9, 11.10, 11.11 (optional)
  4. 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 5.1, 5.5
  5. 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
  6. Finance exercise (sent via email)
  7. 14.1, 14.4 (optional), 14.7, 14.8 (optional), 14.9 (optional), 14.10
  8. 15.1, 16.1, 16.3
  9. 17.2, 18.2, 18.6, 20.1 (optional)
  10. 19.1
  11. Final energy-plan assignment
Most of these problems sets also had some WebWorK exercises as well.

Current Draft of Textbook

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Guidelines for homework solutions.