CLASS MATERIALS:
First Problem Set: Click Here
Second Problem Set: Click Here
Caution on problem #2 ... look closely at the superscripts, noting what we're asking with regard to 238U vs. 235U!
Class Friday Sept. 1: Click Here
Class Wednesday Sept. 6: Click Here
Class Friday Sept. 8 (and 11): Click Here
Class Wednesday Sept. 13 (and 15): Click Here
Class Monday Sept. 18: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 1: Click Here
Problem #3: Click Here
CHAPTER 1 Slides: Click Here
Exam I Study Guide: Click Here
Exam I Example Test: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 2: Click Here
CHAPTER 2 Slides: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 3: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 4: Click Here
CHAPTER 3 Slides: Click Here
Problem #4: In Critical Thinking Problems, do problem #4a, page 35. Look up the quadratic equation if you need it!!!
Problem #5: In Critical Thinking Problems, do problem #6, page 56. Due Friday Oct. 2! (Problems due Fridays unless I decide otherwise).
CHAPTER 4 Slides: Click Here
Problem #6a: Planetary temperatures (due Friday, Oct. 13!): Click Here
Problem #6b: Click here (Relative humidity, dewpoint)
CHAPTER 5 Slides: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 5: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 6: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 7: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 8: Click Here
CHAPTER 6: Click Here
Study Guide, Exam II: Click Here
No assigned problem the week of Exam II!
Problem #7: In Critical Thinking Problems, #1 on page 148 (Hints: the problem gives you a relation between ocean depth as a function of time for the situation where the plate is forming at a mid-ocean ridge and moving away from the ridge as time passes. Remember that your job is to make a cross-section of the ocean floor - with a horizontal DISTANCE axis, not a time axis. You have to convert time to distance using the speed relationship given in the problem (1 cm/yr, which comes out to 10 km per million years). ALSO REMEMBER that the equation given, Depth (in meters) = 2500 + 350*SQRT(t), the time t is in millions of years. That is, 1 million years = 1. Do not put 1,000,000 into the equation instead of "1". The Earth is only 12,700 km in diameter, so if you get ocean depths that are in hundreds of millions of meters, something is definitely wrong. The answers have to be "2500 meters plus a bit, maybe even plus another 2500 meters, but not millions of meters". KEY: make a plot of depth vs. distance with sea level equal to a horizontal line!!!!
CHAPTER 7: Click Here
CHAPTER 8: Click Here
Problem #8: Critical Thinking Problems page 174, #1 (be careful!!!) (Due Friday Nov. 3)
Problem #9: In Critical Thinking Problems, #4 on page 174 (Due Friday Nov. 10)
CHAPTER 9: Click Here
CHAPTER 10: Skipping this one - covered a lot of it at start of course
Textbook Chapter 9: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 10: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 11: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 12: Click Here
Review sheet Exam III: Click Here
Problem Set Due Nov. 17: Click Here
CHAPTER 9: Click Here
CHAPTER 10: Skipping this one - covered a lot of it at start of course
CHAPTER 11: Click Here
CHAPTER 12: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 13: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 14: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 15: Click Here
Textbook Chapter 16: Click Here
CHAPTER 13: Click Here
CHAPTER 14: Click Here
Problem #12: Critical Thinking Problems #2, page 271 (Due Friday Dec. 8)
CHAPTER 15: Click Here
CHAPTER 16: Click Here
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE: Click Here
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Not important below this! (from last year)
Final Thoughts Powerpoint: Click Here
Problem #13: Critical Thinking Problems #3, page 319 (Due Monday Dec. 7)