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ENPH257
Section: 941
Instructor: Chris Waltham
Email: cew@...
Office: Hennings 336
Office Hrs: By appt or in lab
Class TA: Dominik Neuenfeld
Email: dneuenfe@...
Lab TA: Evan Thomas
Email: zucchini@...
Technician: Sing Chow
Email: scho@...
Class: Tues/Thu 10:30-12:30
Classroom: Chem C124
Lab: Hebb 42
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Engineering Physics Thermodynamics 2017 Summer Term I
To be updated throughout the course. Last updated 2017.06.09

Week Monday Lectures (Chem C124: Tu/Th 10:30-12:30) Tutorials Lab (Hebb 42: MWF 13:00-17:00) Comments
1 May 15 1. Introduction
2. Maxwell-Boltzmann theory
1. Lab intro; Tutorial Ex.1
2. Homework 1
(due 08:30am Tues May 23)
Safety/shop/SolidWorks (WF) - Zender
2 May 22 3. Heat capacities/Thermal diffusion/Simulations
4. Simulations continued
1. Intro to simulations Tutorial Ex.2
2. Homework 2
(due 08:30am Tues May 30)
First formal ENPH257 lab (W) Monday: Victoria Day
3 May 29 5. Radiation, Planck distribution
6. Solar radiation at Earth
1. Tutorial Ex.3
2. Homework 3
(due 08:30am Tues Jun 06)
Data taking hints
4 June 05 7. Earth's climate
8. Solar power
1. Tutorial Ex.4
2. Homework 4
(due 08:30am Tues Jun 13)
Hints on the presentation of final results
5 June 12 Midterm (Tuesday in IBLC261- bring your laptop) [|LAST YEAR'S MIDTERM]
9. Phase Changes, Clausius-Clapeyron
1. -
2. MT review
Homework 5
(due 08:30am Wed Jun 28)
Interim data report - due at end of last lab (F)
6 June 19 Chris Waltham away at a conference (ISMA 2017, Montreal)
NO LECTURES/TUTORIALS/LABS
No tutorial No lab (finished)
7 June 26 10. Latent heat, batteries, atmosphere
11. Heat engines I
Tutorial Ex.5
2. Homework 6
(due 08:30am Tues Jul 04)
Data analysis report
- due 17:00 Friday
8 July 03 12. Rockets etc.
13. FINAL EXAMINATION
(Thu July 06 10:30-12:30 in Chem D300 - bring your laptop)
Practice Final Monday: Canada Day