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• Scores for your best two quizzes (your score scaled to 20%)

• Scores on Quiz 3 (mean score 9.2/15)

• Quiz 3 (21 Nov. 2011) with answers.

• Assignment 2 and links (due 2 Dec). Note: I've been asked whether you're to focus on a single location in your state/province, e.g. a particular city, or the whole state or province. You must choose a state/province according to the stated guideline -- but within that state or province the choice is yours whether to focus on a city or county or the whole state/province.

• Quiz 3 on Monday Nov. 21 will cover from p236 of the textbook to the end of Chapter 10, i.e. material covered from Monday 24 Oct. through Monday 14 Nov. inclusive. There will be 15 questions (none will be multi-part)

• Midterm exam (28 Oct. 2011) with answers.

• Mid-term exam on Friday 28 Oct. has value 20% and will contain 30 multichoice questions. It will cover material from all chapters up to p236 of the textbook (i.e. includes material up to and including lecture of Friday 21 Oct). Any needed equations will be given as data.

• A mistake in the calculation of Geostrophic wind speed has been corrected ( Lecture 18)

• Numerous students have enquired about Question 4 of the assignment. What equation to use? Key steps were (a) to recognize that the quantity of energy harvested in one hour would control the mass of water evaporated (b) and that the mass evaporated per square metre corresponds to a water volume lost per square metre. It was important to be careful with units. An analogy: Suppose you are paid $15/hour (analogy, Q*1). You spend an eight-hour day's income on CD's, which cost 20 [dollars/CD] (analogy, the latent heat of vapourization J/kg). Each CD has 12 [tracks/CD] (analogy, the specific volume of water m^3/kg which is the reciprocal of the density of water). Your day's work earns you 15 x 8 x 12 / 20 = 72 tracks.

• Quiz 2 (12 Oct. 2011) with answers.

• The wording (only) of Assignment 1 (10%, due 19 Oct.) has been amended slightly to improve clarity

• Quiz 2 on Wednesday Oct 12 will cover Chapters 3,4 (same format as Quiz 1)

• Dr. Wilson will be away 12, 14 Oct. (Quiz Oct 12 will be supervised by Dr. Reuter; lecture of Oct 14 will be delivered by Dr. Myers)

• Quiz 1 (23 Sept. 2011) with answers

• The first quiz is coming up Friday 23 Sept. It covers Chapters 1,2 (less exclusions) and map questions (within this scope, covered up to and including Friday 16 Sept). Please do bring a calculator. Note: the way this course is graded implies that tests and assignments carry no "pass" or "fail" threshold. Neither does the class average carry any significance.

• We have been assigned CCIS L2-200 as our classroom for the balance of the term.

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Last Modified: 2 Dec., 2011