Fall 2015: Instructor - Brad deYoung - bdeyoung@mun.ca

The course will focus on basic physical principles of light, heat, energy and sound in the natural environment. For us environmental physics will mean exploring the terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric environment through the understanding provided by physics. We will draw on ideas and concepts from many different areas of physics from mechanics and electricity and magnetism to thermodynamics and particle physics. Since we are humans there will be some bias towards issues that are most relevant to us. The issues related to our overabundance on the planet will receive particular attention.

The instructor for this course is Dr. Brad deYoung (bdeyoung@mun.ca) whose office is in C-4062. We will meet in room C-3067. The text for the course is E. Boeker and R. van Grondelle. Environmental Physics. Wiley and Sons., 2011 Third Edition. I will post class notes, assignments, tests (after they are written) and solutions on this page. I will try to get the notes up after the class but I may not always be very quick about it.

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