Post #1971904
2026-04-16 02:08 UTC
@sellathechemist it is bizarrely chaotic. I do a few weeks of background lectures and then themed weeks based on student interest. Monday is a topical lecture, Wednesday we look at topical general audience media, and on Friday we look at a figure from a recent paper. Semester wraps up with student projects. Due to this, it differs each time around. We almost always have something significant about GHGs or oceans, at which point I teach ocean heat (Carnot & Clausius)
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@sellathechemist@mastodon.social 2026-04-18 12:19
@GetzlerChem Sounds very good. I like the choose-your-own-adventure approach. Our plan is rather more linear but I'm probably now too old to contemplate creating a new module. Yet the idea of having a flexible component like that would be interesting. My angle is start with a Fermi approach to build in orders of magnitude with ideas filched from "Spherical Cow" and elsewhere. And then go through challenges/ consequences oceanic, liminic, atmospheric and so on. We'll see.