http://www.umpi.maine.edu/~mccartnk/energy08.htm

Note: This is a draft syllabus for a
new course being designed
The earth is a vast cemetary where the rocks are the tombstones
on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs

- Louis Agassiz

Race after race resigned their fleeting breath
The rocks alone their curious annals save.

- T. A. Conrad

Syllabus: Gey 1** (Energy), Spring, 2008?:
Lecture: TTH?, Folsom 303?

Text:

Energy: Gordon Aubrecht (3rd ed.)

Instructor:
Kevin McCartney (office: 302 Folsom, hours: 10:45-12:00)
office phone 768-9482; home phone 492-4766
email: mccartnk@umpi.maine.edu

Grading
No make-up exams unless a valid excuse is given before the missed test.
Tests and Quizes grades
Quiz 1 & 2 (geologic time scale) 25 pnts A = 90% (540 pnts)
Test 1 125 B = 80% (480 pnts)
Test 2 125 pnts C = 70% (420 pnts)
Test 3 125 pnts D = 60% (360 pnts)
Final (cumulative) 200? pnts F = below 60% (360 pnts)
Total Lecture 600 pnts 600 pnts total

Above table is not correct for this course.
A steady improvement in test scores may be used in revising grade upwards. Otherwise, grades will not be curved. Attendance can be taken into account in the case of borderline grades.

If you have a disability and need an accomodation or assistance in this course, please make an appointment to talk with me. If you prefer, you may contact Student Support Services, South Hall.

Below is a tentative schedule of Energy lectures
(Spring, 2008?)
Note: this syllabus is adapted from Historical Geology Gey 113 (Spr. 2007)
and contains dates and events from that year.
because of remaining uncertainties about text, reading assignments have not been put into this draft
Click lecture for day´s quote
Assignments need to be read before class.
# date lecture title reading:
Part I - Energy overview
1 1/16 Introduction 2:
2 1/18 History of Energy
3 1/23 Energy and Environment 1, 2:
1/24 Last day to Drop a class
4 1/25 What is Energy? 3:
5 1/30 Energy Transformations 3:
6 2/1 Electromagnetism and Electricity 4:
7 2/6 Energy associated with atoms and bonding 6:
8 2/8 The electric grid 7, 8:
9 2/13 Conservation 9:
10 2/15 TEST 1
February 17 - 25 V A C A T I O N
Part II - Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
11 2/27 Exponential growth and limited resources 5:
12 3/1 What is Coal 12:
13 3/6 Coal Mining 12:
14 3/8 What is Petroleum 12:
3/12-14 Geological Society of America,
Northeast section meeting, at UNH
15 3/13 Petroleum reservoirs and recovery 12:
16 3/15 other petroleum deposits and issues 12:
17 3/20 Climate Change 14:
18 3/22 Climate Change 14, 17:
3/23 Last day to withdrawl without penalty
19 3/27 Test 2
Part III - Alternatives ot fossil fuel
20 3/29 Where to from here?
March 31 - April 8 - Spring VACATION
4/6 Geological Society of Maine, Spring mtg, UMF
21 4/10 Nuclear Power 18, 19:
22 4/12 Waste and other issues 13, 19, 20:
23 4/17 Wind readings
24 4/19 Solar 21:
25 4/24 Geothermal and Groundwater Heat Pumps readings
26 4/26 Test 3
27 5/1 Biomass 23:
28 5/3 Other possibilities and prospects 25:
Final Exam: to be announced
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