Physics 405/505: Energy and Sustainability
SUNY Cortland
Fall 2016
Homework| Due | Reading | Problems | Posted |
| Due | Reading | Problems | Posted |
| Aug. 29 | Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free(pdf), Preface and Chapter 1 | Sept. 7 | |
| Aug. 31 | Energy Systems Engineering Chapter 1 Energy Perspectives (2011, pdf) Annual Energy Outlook (2013, pdf), Executive Summary and Market Trends sections. | Sept. 7 | |
| Sept. 5 | Labor Day, No Class | Sept. 7 | |
| Sept. 7 | Energy Systems Engineering, Chapter 3 | 1st article critique due (everyone). | Sept. 7 |
| Sept. 12 | The Concept of Environmental Sustainability | Sept. 7 | |
| Sept. 14 | Sustaintable Energy Technology (pdf), Chapter 2 | Energy Systems Engineering: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5
(everyone) Article critique due (505 only). | Sept. 7 |
| Sept. 19 |
Summaries the IPCC Assessment report 5:
Climate
change: The Physical Science Basis (WG1) and Climate change: Impacts, Adaptations, and Vunerabilities (WG2). | Sept. 14 | |
| Sept. 21 | From the office of the President: The cost of delaying action to stem climate change | Article critique due (everyone). | Sept. 14 |
| Sept. 26 | Bringing Down the Mountain Chapters 3 and 6 | Sept. 22 | |
| Sept. 28 | Oil, a life cycle analysis Parts I through VII (pgs. 8-42) | Article critique (505 students) | Sept. 26 |
| Oct. 3 | Sept. 28 | ||
| Oct. 5 | Natural Gas: Greenhouse-gas footprint of shale gas (PDF), Leaking of Methane from shale gas (PDF), and A bridge to nowhere | Sept. 28 | |
| Oct. 10 | Insurmountable Risks Foreword, Sections 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5 | Oct. 5 | |
| Oct. 12 | Down on the River (PDF) | Oct. 10 | |
| Oct. 17 | Fall Break | ||
| Oct. 19 | Dams and Development Chapter 3. | Oct. 13 | |
| Oct. 24 | Insurmountable Risks
Sections 2.3.2 and 2.4.2 Energy Systems Engineering (textbook) Chapter 13 | Oct. 19 |