Physics 12: Lectures
For each lecture, the PowerPoint file is available, along with a
full-color 4-slide-per-page PDF version. The background is a light color,
so printing black and white (or grayscale) should go easy on the ink.
Lecture 1: Course Introduction, Energy Consumption Overview
Lecture 2: Work, Energy, and Power (Version 2)
Lecture 3: Forms of Energy, Continued
Lecture 4: Conservation of Energy; World Overview
Lecture 5: Power Plants, Distribution
Lecture 6: Fossil Fuels
Lecture 7: Heat Engines
Lecture 8: Home Energy Footprint
Lecture 9: Solar Energy I: Available Energy
Lecture 10: Solar Energy II: Photovoltaics
Lecture 11: Solar Energy III: Solar Schemes
Lecture 12: Hydroelectric and Wind Power
Lecture 13: Biomass and other Renewables
Lecture 14: Nuclear Fission
Lecture 15: Nuclear Realities and Fusion
Lecture 16: Hydrogen as Fuel?
Lecture 17: Global Warming
Lecture 18: Course Wrap-up (and things you can do)
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