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EAS 270: Non-examinable material
While you may find it interesting to read this "excluded" material, its listing here implies that no exam/quiz question will be based on the designated material.
- Exclusions from Chapter 1
- Exclusions from Chapter 2
- p33, "In the Field"
- Section 2.10, The Formation and Evolution of the Atmosphere
- Exclusions from Chapter 3
- Section 3.2, Early Contributions to the Kinetic Theory of Gases
- Exclusions from Chapters 4,5,6
- Exclusions from Chapter 7
- Section 7.6, Methods of Measuring Atmospheric Humidity
- Section 7.7, Humidity and Human Comfort
- Exclusions from Chapter 8
- The emagram and the tephigram: we'll use the skew-T/log-P diagram, which is very similar to the tephigram in that the isotherms are rotated away from the vertical (thus, "skew-T" diagram)
- Wet bulb potential temperature
- Exclusions from Chapter 9
- Exclusions from Chapter 10
- Section 10.6, Snow-Making
- Section 10.7, The Distribution and Character of Precipitation
- Exclusions from Chapter 11
- Exclusions from Chapter 12
- Section 12.3.2, Dishpan Models (of the General Circulation)
- Exclusions from Chapter 13
- Section 13.8, Occluded Fronts
- Exclusions from Chapter 14
- Sec 14.4.4 Lightning and Thunder
- Exclusions from Chapter 15
- Section 15.3, The History of Weather Forecasting
- pp388-389, "In the Field"
- Chapters 16, 17 are excluded entirely
Further exclusions will be listed as we progress through term.
Last Modified: 29 Nov., 2016