ENERGY, SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

Catalog description

Notes: lecture course with lab type activities integrated into the coursework. Pre-requisites: MTHD 104 or MTHD 106 , with a grade ≥C, or math placement score. Satisfies: a BACR for natural science. This course covers the basic scientific concepts about how society generates and uses energy. Various sources of energy will be covered along with their associated benefits and drawbacks for each source in terms of effect on the environment and how we live our lives. These concepts will be developed within the context of physics principles such as energy physics, efficiency of energy transmission, power and theoretical limitations.