In the past 3 years, I have moved most of my course material online to http://sharedcurriculum.wikispaces.com/ open to the public. Through this website, you are able to access all of my online courses. Additionally, below, I provide a direct link to each of the most recent classes I have directed with a representative summary of some materials. Some videos are no longer accessible from past classes because the video carrier changed their name. Thus I include a few updated videos for each class.
PHYS141 Fall 2016 (present class) and PHYS141 Spring 201
- Syllabus
- Videos: Overview of Mechanics Class, Springs!, Torque = dl/dt
- An example of text I am writing with student assistance :Chapters 1.0 – 1.4 Introduction to the four lenses of mechanics and 2.4 Springs
- Problem Sets: PS#1, PS#1 Pete’s Answers, PS#2, PS#2 Answers, PS#3 (old midterm + more questions), PS#3 guidance, PS#4, PS#4 guidance, PS#5, Some questions refer to the textbook we are building, requiring students to go to textbook.
- Practice Exams: Practice Exam #1 Guidance, Practice Exam #2, #2 Answers, Practice Exam #3 Practice Exam #3 (3 good papers)
- Midterm Exam MT#1, MT#1 w/ answers, MT#1 Student Solutions.
- final Exam, see Confidential Documents
PHYS132 Spring 2015: Oscillations, Waves, Thermal, Optics.
- Syllabus
- Videos: Heat Flow, Doppler Shifting
- PS#1, PS#4, PS#4 Solutions, PS#5, PS#5 Solutions,PS#7, PS7_Solutions, Gas Processes, Gas Processes Solutions
- Labs with curtailed procedure: Thin Lens, Mass on a Spring
- final Exam, see Confidential Documents
PHYS340 Fall 2015: Quantum Laboratory (I) introduction and syllabus
PSC320 Spring 2015: Energy, Society, and the Environment. GE Area F
- Syllabus
- Videos: Energy Conversion, Fusion Power, Permaculture and My House
- PS#1, PS#1_Solutions, PS#3, PS#3_Solutions, PS#5, PS#5_Solutions
- Read Jevon’s Paradox
- Midterm Exams: Midterm from 2013, Some helpful information for midterm, MT Solutions
- final Exam, see Confidential Documents
PHYS310: The Physics of Energy (co-instructed with David Hafemeister)
- syllabus
- The videos expressing the underlying basic ideas are the same as for PSC320 above
- PS#1, PS#2, PS#2 Solutions, PS#2 DH Solutions, PS#3, PS#3 Solutions,PS#3 DH Solutions, PS#3 Q3 Solutions, PS#4, PS#4Q1 solution, PS#4_DH_Solutions, PS#5, PS#6, PS#6_solutions, PS#6_DH_Solutions, Excel Spreadsheet, PS#7, PS#7_Solutions
- MT Solutions for DH Problems Pete’s Problems
- final Exam, see Confidential Documents
PSC391: Appropriate Technology for the World’s People: Development. Cross Listed as PSC491, UNIV391, UNIV491, HNRS391. I developed this class collaboratively with many instructors. GE Area F
- Course Syllabus and Timeline
- Videos: Happiness and Emissions, Permaculture and Pete’s House
- Sachs “Can extreme poverty be eliminated?“
- Bageant, “On international development”
- Ivan Illich: “To Hell with Good Intentions”
- James Ferguson: “The Anti-Politics Machine”
- One student website: Cooking with PV in Rwanda and Student Video
- Final Exam
PSC392: Appropriate Technology for the World’s People: Design. Cross Listed as PSC491, UNIV391, UNIV491, HNRS391. I developed this class collaboratively with many instructors. GE Area D5
- syllabus and Timeline
- Videos: EWB_Failure_restructuring
- Read about the winners of the USAID award
- One student website: PV Solar Cooking
- Final Exam