Climate physics and chemistry

Lectures: 3 sessions / week, 1 hour / session

This course introduces students to climate studies, including beginnings of the solar system, time scales, and climate in human history. It also talks about:

This course meets with graduate subject 12.842 (Climate Physics and Chemistry), but assignments differ.

(Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry (3.091), or Principles of Chemical Science (5.111), or Principles of Chemical Science (5.112), and Differential Equations (18.03)

There are 4 homework assignments and each student will be asked to do a term project. Reporting on the term projects will take place at the end of the term in both written (no more than 10 pages) and oral presentation (about 20 minutes). Oral presentation is optional for undergraduate students.

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