Phys1063-
Physics of Weather, Fall 2007
Please check here regularly for news and
announcements concerning the class. All recent changes to the website will be
recorded here.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Thanks
for a great semester, and I hope you will have a good and relaxing break.
The
grades have been posted. The solutions for the final exam can be found in the
test section, together with a result distribution.
If
you wish to receive some of your work back, please stop by my office. I will be
back on January 4th.
Here
is the final point and grade distribution for the class.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Class
materials are posted in documents section. If not other wishes arrive, we will
do something about tornadoes on Friday.
Worth
checking: Snow and Frost at UMM this
morning – watch for the hexagonal platelets
Monday, December 10, 2007
Class
presentation on global circulation is posted. A few homework questions are
posted.
Test
2 is completely graded, and the grade distribution has been posted on the test
page.
Friday, December 07, 2007
Solutions
for test 3 are posted.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Weather
data from weekend: link is fixed.
Today’s
class materials are posted.
Monday, December 03, 2007
Weather data November 30 -
December 3
This
is the table of this weekends weather data – might be useful to complement your
observations. Homework solutions are posted.
Tuesday’s
review session is going to be at 7 pm in Sci2190.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Homework
for next week is posted. Please observe the winter storm this weekend.
Instructions are in the homework section.
A
review session is planned for Tuesday, 7 pm. Room will be announced. Bring your
questions. We can use the review questions as a discussion starter.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Class
materials and key words are posted.
Monday, November 26, 2007
The
calendar has been corrected`. Test 3 will take place on Friday, December 7,
2007. Solutions fore Quiz 9 are posted.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Today’s
worksheet is posted.
I
hope you will have a happy and restful Thanksgiving.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Iridescent clouds last
Friday afternoon: Isn’t it uncanny, how stuff I try to skirt in class has a
tendency of showing up in the sky right away?
Monday, November 19, 2007
Pictures
and a link to the manufacturer of the AWOS is posted in the documents section.
Friday, November 16, 2007
For
Monday: we meet at 9:10 am in the South Parking lot at the science building
entrance.
Class
materials, field trip guide, new homework is posted. There are also new review
questions and keywords available for Radar and atmospheric optics.
Homework
answers are posted, as well.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Today’s
class materials are posted.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
I
posted key words and review questions for weather observations, including
satellite observations in the documents section.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Class
documents and quiz solutions have been posted.
Friday, November 09, 2007
Today’s
class materials and new homework problems are posted. Also, review questions
and keywords for chapter 4 are posted.
We
will have a field trip to the
Due
to the number of students, it requires two 15-passenger vans. Hence, we
do need at least one more driver, who has a 15-passenger van permit on file at
UMM. Are there any volunteers?
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Class
materials and homework solutions are
posted.
Monday, November 05, 2007
New
homework and today’s class materials are posted.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Quiz
solutions, last Friday’s homework solutions and an example for the lab report
exp4 are posted. This class is not
taking place on Friday, November 2.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Yesterday’s
class materials are posted. There is no class on Friday.
Friday, October 26, 2007
New
homework is posted. Today’s class materials are posted.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Today’s
class materials are posted. Please, complete the class exercise and bring
on Friday. I will not collect it, but we will discuss it.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Test
results and point distribution are posted.
Friday, October 19, 2007
New
homework and homework solutions are posted. The solutions for test 2 are posted
in the test section. I hope you will have a good break.
We
will meet in the class room next Wednesday.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The
class handout for experiment 4 is posted.
Test 2 will be given on Friday. Please use review questions and keyword
lists for preparation, and do not hesitate to stop by or send an e-mail if you
have any concerns or questions about it.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
This Thursday, October 18 at 7pm in Edson Auditorium, survivors
of the genocide in
This program features a 15 minute documentary, presentations by
Daoud Hari and Ibrahim Musa Adam, followed by a question and answer session
with the audience.
One of the presenters is Daoud Hari, who fled his village in
2003. Hari risked his life as a translator for The New York Times, BBC and
National Geographic, among others and was arrested in
Message from Laura Thoma
Don’t
miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to learn more about this conflict and
the plight of the people who live through it..
Monday, October 15, 2007
Class
presentation, quiz solution, keywords and review questions are posted. We will
meet in the class room on Wednesday morning.
Sorry,
the interactive figure wasn’t on the publisher’s page. It is linked from
documents, homework and calendar.
Friday, October 12, 2007
New
homework problems for next week, as well as keywords and review questions have
been posted. Possible answers for homework are posted, too.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Here is a spreadsheet
with the raw data from our temperature measurement this morning. Take a look at
them, present them in various ways and try to find out what possible
conclusions one could draw from this. We will discuss this briefly on Friday in
class.
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
I
am sure we will be outside tomorrow. Bring a warm jacket!
Monday, October 08, 2007
I
posted the class materials for today and last Friday. Possible answers for
Experiment 3 on greenhouse gases are also posted.
Friday, October 05, 2007
New
homework problems and previous solutions for the homework questions are posted.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
I
posted keywords and review questions related to the Earth’s energy budget in
the documents section.
There
is also a document related to the groups activity on temperature variability on
campus – hold your fingers crossed that we won’t be in the middle of one of
those rain storms in the morning. Otherwise: it’s lecture as usual.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Today’s
class documents are posted.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
If
you are interested, there is an opportunity to gain some first-hand information
about observations of climate change in geological times:
The Geology Discipline will sponsor a special geology lecture
tomorrow, Wednesday, October 4, at 5:30 in Science 1020. Dr. Adam Lewis,
Research Assistant Professor of Geology at
The talk will not be too technical, and I suspect he will have
some nice field photos to share. If you wish to encourage students to come, it
would be greatly appreciated.
Jamie Jones
I
think this would fit very well with the topic of our class – so come if you can
make it.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Here
is a link to our Solar Bag
Experiment this morning. Thanks to all those who ran, and conducted, and
tied, and worked – this was fun.
We
will meet in the class room on Wednesday.
Friday, September 28, 2007
The spreadsheet for today’s
experiment (including data and graphs) has been posted. Answers to the homework
problems are posted in the Homework section, together with a word document for
next week’s homework problems.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
I
added a link to an interesting website about the ozone hole to the weather
sites page.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
We
will meet in Science 4515 on Friday. This is the Physics teaching lab on the
fourth floor in the west wing of the science building.
Today’s
class materials, keywords and review questions are posted. I also posted the handout
for Experiment 3 on Friday, and invite you to check it our before Friday.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Today’s
class materials are posted. Keywords are posted.
Friday, September 21, 2007
The
solutions to test 1 are posted in the test section. New homework problems for
next Friday are posted.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Class
materials (PowerPoint and keywords) are posted in the documents section. An
example lab report is posted, as well.
Test
1 will be on Friday. Please contact me before the test, if there is a known
reason for your absence on Friday, so that we can make arrangements for you not
to miss those points.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Today’s
class documents are posted. The quiz solutions are posted as well.
Reminder:
There will be a test on Friday.
In
case you are wondering: our planned experiment will not work today. We need
nice sunshine for it. So please, come to the class room, and let your fellow
students know as well. I know this won’t get all of you in time, so there will
be some confusion in the beginning of class – maybe on Wednesday we will have
more luck.
Friday, September 14, 2007
We
will meet on the mall in front of the student center on Monday!
Experimental data are posted in the
documents section.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Weather data table
is updated.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Today’s
class materials are posted. Weather data for
homework are updated.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
To
help out with your observation task, I posted a table with the weather
data at 6 pm and 9 am, which will be completed as time passes. This info is
in the homework section.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Wednesday’s
class meets in the regular class room.
Today’s
class documents and the quiz solutions are posted. Documents section contains
an example lab report and grading information.
The
homework for next Friday has been modified. It includes a station
model observation task, starting tonight at 6 pm, as well as two practice
problems for ideal gas law and drawing isobars. The answers for last week’s
homework have been posted.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Today’s
class materials are posted in the documents section.
Please try the
ice-melting experiment over the weekend and bring results on Monday.
Friday
morning class meets outside at the West Parking lot. If it is actively raining,
class takes place inside in the class room.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Today’s
class documents have been posted in the document section.
The
solution for Quiz 1 together with comments is posted in the Quiz section.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
There
has been a slight change to the homework: the lab report will be due next
Monday, not this Friday, as was originally indicated.
The
lab document for the ideal-gas experiment is posted. There will be paper copies
handed out in class.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Today’s
class documents have been posted in the document section.
Calendar
and homework page have been updated. There will be some written homework due
next Friday.
A
few study questions have been posted in the documents section.
If
you bought a used book from the UMM bookstore, there is a possibility that your
online access code has been used before. This seems to be the case for just a
few of you. How to remedy this depends on how few of you are affected. If you
have a used book from the UMM bookstore, and your code does not work with the
registration, can you please send me an e-mail? There is an acceptable
solution, if I can get a solid number on how many codes are needed. I will wait
until noon Tuesday before bursting into action. Not affected are: new books, no
book yet, books from other sources
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Electronic
class materials for today’s class are posted in the documents section.
Homework
for Friday has been posted. There is no scoring this week. If you have difficulty
to connect to MeteorologyNow please let me know.
I
posted a time-lapse of today’s morning fog in the documents section.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
The
syllabus has been posted. The calendar already has been adjusted.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Welcome
to the course page. I am looking forward to meeting you in August.
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modified: 12/20/2007
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