Physics 239: Lectures


Murphy Lecture 1 (Fermi Problems): (PDF)


Murphy Lecture 2 (Energy Scales in Society): (PDF)


Murphy Lecture 3 (Renewable Energy Scales): (PDF)

See also Frank Shu's Global Energy article (Appendix has suite of renewable energy estimates)

Murphy Lecture 4 (Drag and Lift): (PDF)


Murphy Lecture 5 (Heat Flow Calculations): (PDF)


Murphy Lectures 6 (Mechanics of Materials): (PDF)


Murphy Lecture 7 (Atmosphere and Weather): (PDF)


Murphy Lecture 8 (Climate Change): (PDF)

and see the article by Hafemeister and Schwartz

Murphy Lecture 9 (Optical Phenomena): (PDF)


Fuller Lecture 1 (Natural Units): (PPT) | (PDF)

Supplemental Stat Mech Lectures (PDF) | (PPT)

Fuller Lecture 2 (Fluids & Stat. Mech.): (PDF)


Fuller Lecture 3 (Forces): (15MB PDF)


Diamond Lecture 1 (Buckingham Pi Theorem; Drag): (PDF) | Supplement (PDF)


Diamond Lecture 2 (Wakes and Boundary Layers): (PDF)


Diamond Lectures 3 & 4 (Basics of Turbulence): (PDF)


Diamond Lectures 5 & 6: (Vorticity, Cascades, 2-D Turbulence) (PDF)


Diamond Lecture 7 (Convection): (PDF)



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