In Figure 1, envir onmental phenomena then should be replaced by life phenomena. Piet Blan kert (pietbln at.vu.nl ) is a nuclear phy sicist by origin since 1987 is he head of the departments students lab.
They added their experiences in writing two textbooks on Envi ronm ental Phy sics (1 and 2). Rie nk van Gro ndel le ( 19 49 rie nknat.
I n the textbooks of the first two authors (1, 2) the point is made that environmental problems arise from interac tion between mankind and natu re and therefore they not alway s are soluble in the sense that a phy sics problem is soluble.Įgbert Boeker (1937 eg bertbnat.v u.nl) jus t retired from an academ ic career in wh ich he ta ught virtua lly all of the under gra duate co urse s in physics. Their emphasis is more on modelling of natural phenome na and testing the models by experiments and data ga thering (loop 2 in Fig.Ī t the same time the natural, environmental phenomena we re heavily influenced by the impact of man. I n the later part of the 20 th century several new sub-disciplines of phy sics such as biophy sics, climate physics or atmospheric p hy sics were born, which o perate at the interface of many disciplines. This process is indicated by the dotted lines at position (1) in the lower lef t corner of Fig ure 1. Introduction: defining env ironmental physics During much of the 19 th and 20 th century, academic phy sics was taking the objects of study from the natural environment and performed experiments under controlled conditions.Īdded to that, data on the natural ph enomena were collected and tog ether this resulted in the laws of nature, as phy sicists describe them. I n this paper the motivat ion of teaching environmental phy sics is discussed and examples of course content and supporting student work are given, bas ed on work in the authors d epartment. M.J.Smith Greenhouse model after 1, figure 3.2.īoeker Author content All figure content in this area was uploaded by Egbert.ĭiscover the worlds research 20 million members 135 million publications 700k research projects Join for free Public Full-text 1 Content uploaded by Egbert.īoeker Author content All content in this area was uploaded by Egbert. Environmental Physics Book Series Of ExercisesĮach chapter concludes with a series of exercises which require the reader to practice the calculations learnt and which raise points for group discussion. The book comprises the following eight chapters: introduction elementary spectroscopy the global cilmate energy for human use transport of pollutants environmental spectroscopy the context of society. Environmental Physics Book Download Citation Copy.
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