Physics 12: Lectures
For each lecture, the PowerPoint file is available, along with a
full-color 4-slide-per-page PDF version. The background is a light color,
so printing black and white (or grayscale) should go easy on the ink.
Lecture 1: Course Introduction, Energy Consumption Overview
Lecture 2: An Aside on Growth
Lecture 3: Work, Energy, and Power
Lecture 4: Forms of Energy, Continued
Lecture 5: Conservation of Energy
Lecture 6: World/U.S. Energy Overview
Lecture 7: Fossil Fuels
Lecture 7B: Peak Oil Implications
Lecture 8: Heat Engines
Lecture 9: Power Plants, Distribution
Lecture 10: Home Energy Footprint
Lecture 11: Solar Energy I: Available Energy
Lecture 12: Solar Energy II: Photovoltaics
Supplemental: Recent Articles
Lecture 13: Solar Energy III: Solar Schemes
Lecture 14: Hydroelectric and Wind Power
Lecture 15: Biomass and other Renewables
Lecture 16: Nuclear Fission
Lecture 17: Nuclear Realities and Fusion
Lecture 18: Global Warming
Lecture 19: Course Wrap-up (and things you can do)
Lecture 20: Special Topics: Lighting and Electric Cars
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