09-02-2014

Sep 2, 2014

In class today we did the following:

1. To start out, a few announcements were made, Dr H and TAs Diana Zamora-Ryes and Scott Jones talked a bit about their backgrounds and research.. A call for Precptor applicatiosn was also made.
Then a few "pop quiz questions on the Syllabus & FAQ were asked and the class tried out their "clickers" (This was a practice day -- no points were recorded if you weren't able to respond.). Here's waht was covered in this first segment::

Announcements, Teaching Team Info,& Practice Clicker Q's

2. Then Dr H wrapped up Topic #2 Quantifying Global Change and reviewed the answers to the Time Series Plot exercise ( pp 13-14 in Class Notes). . This was followed by the start of Topic #3 on Matter & Energy.
Hee's the presentation:

Topic #2 (cont.) On Quantifying Global Change & start of Topic #3 on Matter & Energy Review]

TOPIC #2 (cont.)

The video below and 2 graphs were shown to illustrate more aspects of TIME SERIES PLOTS:

TREND & VARIATION
http://youtu.be/e0vj-0imOLw

"DOWN THE UP ESCALATOR"
Short term cooling spells within a longtern overall warming trend
http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=47

Example of time series with
TREND, "STEP CHANGES" and PERIODICITY (regular oscillations)
http://www.skepticalscience.com/going-down-the-up-escalator-part-2.html

An additional video was shown on Ice Cores as we discussed past time series of "paleo" data on 15 in CLASS NOTES:

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TOPIC #3

Then we started TOPIC #3 with an overview of the basics of MATTER which will be continued on Thursday. See THIS LINK to watch the animation of the box of gas molecules as they respond to a temperature change (to find the box, scroll down to the "box temperature" animation -- you may need to adjust your Java security settings to see it!)
For a bit of a break, we watched on how "We Are All Connected" -- even at the atomic and molecular level! ( "Symphony of Science" video from: http://www.symphonyofscience.com )

"We are all Connected."

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

IF YOU MISSED CLASS TODAY:

Review the presentation for Topic #2 and the start of Topic #3 that you missed (by clicking on the presentation link above) & view the videos,

When you get your CLASS NOTES -- review pp 13-16 and draw in the mean line on the plots in the Class Activity on Plotting Change Over Time on pp 13-14 15-16 in CLASS NOTES. Try to write your own descriptions of each of the other plots, using Dr H's example for Plot 1 -- before looking at the answers in the presentation