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Lecture slides
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Handouts, reading materials
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Lab
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Lab Data |
Homework
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Answers to homework | Useful Links |
| Background Materials | Syllabus | Uncertainties, errors and their propagation
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A recent publication; based, in part, on this class which includes chapters on waves | Rubric on data analysis (used to evaluate homework) | NIST pages on constants, units and uncertainty; |
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10/7/2010 |
Diffusion [PDF] Quiz1 [PDF] |
Material of this class has been published here | Lab is incorporated into lecture. | Data for homework - note there are two sheets; one for biased and one for unbiased diffusion. | Homework: analysis of data from class [PDF] |
Homework solution [PDF] | |
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10/14/2010 |
Mixing
[PDF] Pre-class reading [PDF]. Quiz2 [PDF] |
Mixing lab [PDF] | Homework: Deep Horizon accident [PDF] | Homework solution [PDF] | |||
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10/21/2010 |
Earth rotation effect (Coriolis) [PDF] Pre-class reading here Quiz3 [PDF] |
Rotation lab (Coriolis effect, Ekman, Taylor columns and Taylor sheets) [PDF] | Homework: Coriolis and inertial oscillations [PDF] | Homework solution [PDF] | |||
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10/28/2010 |
Waves [PDF] Pre-class reading here Quiz4 [PDF] |
Material for this class has been published here | Wave lab [PDF] | Homework: Waves and tides [PDF] | Homework solution [PDF] | ||
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11/4/2010 |
Tides |
No homework | |||||
| Name | Quiz 1 | Quiz2 | Quiz3 | Quiz4 | Quiz5 | Total | Rank |
| Yellow Tangs | 40 | 35 | 35 | 38 | 34 | 182 | 5 |
| Blue berry-cudas | 40 | 38 | 38 | 35 | 31 | 182 | 5 |
| G.T.A | 40 | 36 | 38 | 38 | 40 | 192 | 1 |
| Alpha Wolf Squadron | 40 | 36 | 40 | 38 | 37 | 191 | 2 |
| Octop | 38 | 38 | 40 | 32 | 38 | 186 | 4 |
| Flying Squirrels | 36 | 34 | 36 | 40 | 29 | 175 | 7 |
| Purple Unicorns | 40 | 38 | 37 | 36 | 37 | 188 | 3 |