Format of the Course:

• P310: Environmental Physics, 3 credit hours.
  
• Text books:
  
• Environmental Physics by Clare Smith (Routledge Press, 2001).
• The consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices by M. Brower and W. Leon (Three Rivers Press, 1999).
• Selections from:
• Consider a Spherical Cow by John Harte (University Science Books, 1988).
• Consider a Cylindrical Cow by John Harte (University Science Books, 2001).
• The Energy Resources and Economics Workbook by Richard J. Shaten (Internal Energy, 2003).
• Other resources.
  
• Assignments:
• 20 Readings from Science, Scientific American, Nature, etc.
• IPCC: Gloabal Warming: The Scientific Basis executive summary.
• Problems from the textbook (seven chapters).
• Physlet exercise on waves.
• Population assignment.
  
• Risk assesment assignment.
  
• Final project: The environmental Physics Web Page at IUS.
  

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