September 21, 2012
In class today we did the following:
1. After Dr H talked about what TODAY is: Zero Emissions Day Find out more at: http://www.zeday.org/
Then she also talked about
tomorrow:
The September Equinox! (see the slide copied
below and the link that accompanies it.
More coming up in Topic #12 (class notes p 63)
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/september-equinox.html
Lastly, TEST #1 was returned in the GROUP FOLDERS -- you may take it home to study with it.
2. We then had a review of some concepts from Wednesday's class and continued on with Topic #7 in a presentation by Dr. H on Part II of Atmospheric Structure & Chemical Composition:
Topic #7
- Part II on Atmospheric Structure & Chemical
Composition
Here is a DIRECT LINK to an interactive page on Atmospheric Structure that you can look at to solidify some of the concepts:
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/atmosphere/index.html
3. Part of the way through the lecture we watched the next segment of SAVED BY THE SUN which showed how businesses in the U.S. are going advancing the solar industry here.
