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Exercises in Environmental Physics

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The study of environmental physics requires understanding topics from many different areas of physics as well as comprehension of physical aspects of the world around us. Several excellent textbooks are available covering most aspects of environmental physics and of applications of physics to the natural environment from various points of view. However, while teaching environmental physics to university students, I sorely missed a book specifically devoted to exercises for the environmental science student. Thus, the motivation for this book came about as in physics, as well as in many other disciplines, satisfactory knowledge of a subject cannot be acquired without practice. Usually students are not familiar with the various areas of physics that are required to describe both the environment and the human impact upon it. At the same time, students need to develop skills in the manipulation of the ideas and concepts learned in class. Therefore, this exercise book is addressed to all levels of university students in environmental sciences.

Because of the wide range of potential users this book contains both calculus-based and algebra-based problems ranging from very simple to advanced ones. Multiple solutions at different levels are presented for
certain problems—the student who is just beginning to learn calculus will benefit from the comparison of the different methods of solution. The material is also useful for courses in atmospheric physics, environmental
aspects of energy generation and transport, groundwater hydrology, soil physics, and ocean physics, and selected parts may even be used for basic undergraduate physics courses. This collection of exercises is based on courses taught at the University of Northern British Columbia and at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Each problem and its solution are self-contained so that they can be attempted or assigned independently. For students willing to deepen their knowledge of the subject, references to the literature are sometimes given in the text or the solution of the problems. The problems are arranged by topic, although problems usually overlap two or more different categories. This should make the students aware of the fact that problems of the environment—even relatively simple ones—often involve different areas and require various techniques in
an interdisciplinary approach. This is even more true for the complex problems that the environmental scientist encounters daily. To put it in John Muir’s words, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”.

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Penerbit

New York : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2006

Deskripsi Fisik

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, xiv, 330 hlm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780387339122

Klasifikasi

628.5

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FISIKA MATERIAL
LINGKUNGAN FISIK

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