Heat Flow, and Heat Engines Back to PSC 320 Main Website
Wednesday’s Class : We study the Flow of Heat
ATTENTION: I’ve found the source slides for the videos and am providing them for you to use as notes during the videos. Please use them if you like, and let me know how this works for you.
Before Class
- Heat Flow: Please see this video (Heat Flow ) and follow with the slides (Heat Flow Slides)
- Finish problem set #1 (on main class website)
- See Big Exam #1 feedback that I provide on the main class website.
- see Lecture 3 Slides: Global Ignorance Demographics
During Class
- Review Big Exam. Please see We will explore questions remaining on how to do problems on PS#1 and look at some questions for heat flow.
After Class
- Prepare for the Heat Engine Exercises for tomorrow (see below)
Thursday: Activity for Heat Engines
Before Activity
- Generating a how much power and work does it take to toast bread?
- We can do that too! Celest 425 W
- Start 1st Self Intervention: Don’t Throw Anything Away for a week. Please collect and keep your refuse: garbage, recyclables, what’s left from takeout food, compost (you can separate the compost). After one week, please categorize everything as to where it will ideally go: compost, batteries and lightbulbs, plastic bags (go to super market special recycling), recyclable, and landfill. Take a picture and upload it to your computer. You can post it along with your narrative of what the process was like for you at the self intervention website (link on main class website).
- Problem Set #2 posted on main class website.
During Activity
- We will calculate our power output doing an activity
- We will cover the information we didn’t finish last Friday. This is stuff you likely read last week:
- Look at US Human Energy Flows or US Energy Flows. Which one do you like better?
- Read Rising Consumption in Developing World
After Activity
- Review problem set #2 questions
- Prepare for class tomorrow (see below)
Friday: Heat Engines
Before Class
- Heat Engines Video and Slides
- please check out the website: Animated Engines that relates to the problem set due Monday.
- Hans Rosling: Poverty Statistics video
- Today on NPR: 2016 was the hottest year yet.
- See Human Power Output
During Class
- Big Exam! #2
After Class
- Do problem set #2