Earth Systems Science I - Fall 2005

PGEOG 250 LECTURES Tu, Fri @ 11:10 - 12:25, ROOM C107 HUNTER NORTH
Professor Haydee Salmun
e-mail: essone@geo.hunter.cuny.edu


General Information 

Course Syllabus (updated – 11/23/05)

Lecture Notes

Labs

Homework

 

Article for Take-home Final Exam

Physics Today: Einstein and Philosophy of Science

Physics Today: Why is ice so ‘slippery’?

Physics Today: Prandtl’s Boundary Layer Theory

 

Link to Fall 2004 material


ANNOUNCEMENTS
(dates indicate when the announcement was posted)  

(12) November 23: Please note that the syllabus has been updated again (see top of page) to reflect evolution and further changes in the class.  Please review these changes.

(11) November 12: You can download a short Review Summary for Midterm Exam 2 from the link.

(10) October 30: The syllabus has been updated to reflect past and future adjustments, please review.  Our next lab meeting has been set for November 8.  Also, a new homework, HW#3 has been posted. 

(9) October 19: Please be advice that an explicit policy for the labs has been set: lab reports will not be accepted from those students that were absent for the class that the lab was assigned.  Those students will get no credits for that part of the course work. This policy will be in effect immediately; therefore it will affect labs 3 and 4. 

(8) September 30: Midterm Exam 1 is a take home exam, assigned today and due October 4th, by midnight.  You can either email it to me or bring a hard copy to my office (under the door if I am not there at the time you come).  You can download the MSword document of this exam by clicking here  *Midterm Exam 1*  This will be available today only!

(7) September 26: A power point lecture for the class of September 27 is now available from the Lecture Notes link above.  please download it and work through the notes and the sections of the textbook indicated in the lecture.  You will be responsible for asking questions about this lecture in our next class meeting.   Please note that this material will be included in our first exam. 

(6) September 26: Please be advise that tomorrow’s class, Tuesday - September 27, has been cancelled.  Class meets next Friday, September 30.

(5) September 21: The general policy of the course for homework (includes lab reports) is that work is due one week after it has been assigned. 

(4) August 26: Please be advised that plagiarism, dishonesty, or cheating in any portion of the work required for this course will be punished to the full extent allowed according to Hunter College regulations.

Hunter College regards acts of academic dishonesty (e.g., plagiarism, cheating on examinations, obtaining unfair advantage, and falsification of records and official documents) as serious offenses against the values of intellectual honesty. The College is committed to enforcing CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity and will pursue cases of academic dishonesty according to the Hunter College Academic Integrity Procedures.

See the following report by the Hunter College Senate for more details:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/senate/assets/Documents/Hunter%20College%20Policy%20on%20Academic%20Integrity.pdf

 (3) August 26: You may find some helpful guidance by browsing a site where some material from the Fall 2004 semester is kept.

 (2) August 26: This course has some policies and guidelines. You can access them from (click on the highlighted text) here and it is strongly recommended that you read the entire document thoroughly. You are responsible for knowing the information it contains.

 (1) August 26: Please make a note of the e-mail address to use when writing to the professors about this course: 

   essone@geo.hunter.cuny.edu

Mail about this course sent to any other address to my name will be AUTOMATICALLY disregarded and deleted.