Class Schedule

 

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Class
9/02/09 Introduction     Lecture
9/04/09 Definitions     Lecture
9/07/09 No Class No Class Labor Day No Class
9/09/09   Lab1part2 Worksheet Tripoli Gone Lab 1: Cloud Classification / Dima's Home Weather Station
9/11/09   Lab 2 assigned, Lab1part2 Worksheet due Tripoli Gone Lab 2: Pressure Measurement
9/14/09 Definitions     Lecture
9/16/09 Ideal Gas Law /Equation of State, Dalton's law of partial pressure Homework 1 assigned   Lecture

9/18/09

   Lab 3 assigned, Lab 2 and Homework 1 due   Lab 3: ASOS Field Trip
9/21/09 Define work, energy, heat capacity, 1st Law     Lecture
9/23/09 1st Law cont'd, enthalpy, specific heat capacity, Poisson's equation, potential temperature     Lecture
9/25/09   Lab 4 Assigned, Lab 3 due second hour: AOS 310 Lab 4: Decoding & Plotting Surface METAR Reports
9/28/09 2nd Law, entropy HW2 Assigned   Lecture
9/30/09 2nd Law cont'd, Carnot Cycle     Lecture
10/02/09   Lab 5 assigned   Lab 5: Surface Map Analysis
10/05/09 Carnot Cycle cont'd HW3 assigned, HW2 due   Lecture
10/07/09 1st/2nd Law, Free engery functions, concept of equilibrium     Lecture
10/09/09   Lab 4&5 due   Lab 6: Radiosonde Launch
10/12/09 Exam 1 HW3 due Tripoli Gone Exam 1
10/14/09   Lab 7 assigned Class move to Rm 1411 Lab 7: Skew T / Log P Diagram
10/16/09 Chemical potential, saturation, Gibbs free energy, Kirchoff's equation   Tripoli Back, Long Lecture Lecture
10/19/09 Latent heats, Kirchoff's equation, Gibbs Phase Rule     Lecture
10/21/09 Phase Diagram for water Lab 7 due   Lecture
10/23/09   Lab 8 Assigned   Lab 8: Moisture Variables on Skew T Log P Diagram
10/26/09   Lab 9 Assigned, HW4 Assigned Class move to Rm 1411 Lab 9: Adiabatic Processes
10/28/09     Class move to Rm 1411 Lab 9 cont'd
10/30/09 Phase diagram of water, Clausius-Clapeyron Equation Lab 8 due Tripoli back, long lecture Lecture
11/02/09 Mixed Phase Open System HW4 due   Lecture
11/04/09 Mixed Phase Open System Lab 9 due, HW 5 Assigned   Lecture
11/06/09   Lab 10 Assigned   Lab 10: Sounding Analysis
11/09/09 1st/2nd Law in mixed phase system     Lecture
11/11/09 1st/2nd Law in mixed phase system HW 5 due, HW 6 assigned   Lecture
11/13/09 Equivalent potential temperature Lab 10 due   Lecture
11/16/09 Equivalent potential temperature     Lecture
11/18/09   HW 6 due   Lecture
11/20/09       Exam 2
11/23/09       Lecture
11/25/09 ways to produce clouds     Lecture
11/27/09 No Class No Class No Class No Class
11/30/09 atmospheric aerosols     Lecture
12/02/09       Lecture
12/04/09   HW7,Lab11 Assigned second hour: AOS 310 lab Lab 11: More on meteorological measurements
12/07/09 Solution effect, curvature effect, Kohler equation,wet haze     Lecture
12/09/09       Lecture
12/11/09   Lab 11 due second hour: AOS 310 lab Lecture
12/14/09   HW7 due, Lab1:Cloud Classification Album due   Exam 3