{"id":321926,"date":"2016-10-17T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=6f0e59b8c7231c59a3574b4988dd4a40"},"modified":"2016-10-17T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T23:00:00","slug":"a-few-ideas-for-teaching-environmental-physics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=321926","title":{"rendered":"A few ideas for teaching environmental physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike a typical university physics course there is no standardised syllabus for environmental<br \/>\nphysics. The topics covered also range beyond what is normally part of the physics curriculum,<br \/>\nrequiring the instructor to become knowledgeable about fields outside of physics. Some of these<br \/>\nissues are complex and, unlike the laws of physics, change rapidly over time. This paper, based on<br \/>\n15 years experience teaching undergraduate environmental physics courses, both for non-science<br \/>\nstudents and for students with strong backgrounds in the sciences, attempts to present a reasonable<br \/>\nrange of concepts and educational resources which could be included in an environmental physics<br \/>\ncourse or added to an existing physics course as motivation for learning traditional physics<br \/>\nconcepts. An additional goal is to warn the reader of pitfalls they may encounter in trying to<br \/>\ninclude material with which they may not be familiar. The approach is different from environmental<br \/>\ncourses taught in the social s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike a typical university physics course there is no standardised syllabus for environmental<br \/>\nphysics. The topics covered also range beyond what is normally part of the physics curriculum,<br \/>\nrequiring the instructor to become knowledgeable about field&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}