Course Overview

Course Info

Course Lecture Notes
Course Canvas
PH 315 Syllabus (full length version)

Textbooks

Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (SEWHA)
Six Ideas, Unit T (OSU login required)
Six Ideas, Unit Q (OSU login required)

Homework and LaTeX

Writing answers to HW questions
9 Rules for Typography in Physics
A quick guide to LaTeX

Gradescope (homework submission site)
315 Homework Template (from LA Alex!)

Help Hours

Wednesday 2-3: Alex in 304F
Thursday 9-10: Alex in 304F
Thursday 2-3: Patti in 485
Friday 3-4: Patti in 485

Term Project Info

Introduction to Term Project

Week 0 Wednesday (9/23)

Introduction

Lecture notes for today

SEWHA Ch 1 - Motivations
SEWHA Ch 2 - Balance Sheet
Optional: Lecture by David MacKay, the author of SEWHA.

Hydroelectric power from a coarse-grained model.

Columbia river gorge

SEWHA Ch 8 - Hydroelectricity

Week 0 Friday (9/25)

Coarse-Grained Models

Rain Power Estimate

Magnitude Analysis by Simon Clark (4min30sec)

Homework 0 (w/ Solution)
Homework 0 (pdf)

Classroom Norms

Classroom norms

Week 1 Monday (9/28)

Energy for transportation - a coarse-grained model.

A coarse-grained model for transportation
Car efficiency

SEWHA Ch 3 - Cars
SEWHA Appendix A: Cars II

Week 1 Wednesday (9/30)

Models for Transportation

TEDx Talk by Sanjoy Mahajan (aerodynamics)

Week 1 Friday (10/2)

Rolling Resistance

Homework 1 (w/ Solution)
Homework 1 (pdf)

Week 2 Monday (10/5)

Wind energy - a coarse-grained model.

Wind energy

SEWHA Ch 4: Wind
SEWHA Appendix B: Wind II

Week 2 Wednesday (10/7)

Uncertainty analysis

Propagating uncertainty
Uncertainty in air density

Week 2 Friday (10/9)

Intro to Nuclear Physics

Six Ideas, Unit Q Chapter 13.1

Homework 2 (w/ Solution)
Homework 2 (pdf)

Size of the Nucleus

Six Ideas, Unit Q Chapter 13.2

Topic/Day

Activities

Resources

Homework Due