PHYSICS 137                                COURSE OUTLINE

I.  GENERAL INFORMATION

Course Number, Section and Title:  Physics 137, Section 1, Introduction to the Atmosphere and Weather

Class Time and Place:  MWF, 2:00 pm, C285 ESC

Instructor:  Dr. Clark G. Christensen

      Office:  N482 ESC

      Office Hours:  MWF 3:00 - 4:00 pm, other hours by appointment.  Please feel free to call or come by whenever you need.

      Telephone:  378-2207 (office), 375-5951 (home)

      email:  cgchristensen@byu.edu

Grader: Carlene Skiles    email:  carlene.skiles@gmail.com

      Office Hours: 

Credit:  3 hours (fulfills University Core; Arts, Letters and Sciences; two-course combination Physical Science requirement, or the old
      GE Natural Science Elective requirement)

Prerequisites:  None.

Texts:  Meteorology Today (8th ed.) by C. Donald Ahrens (Pacific Grove, CA:  Brooks/Cole–Thomson Learning) is required.

Audience:  Physics 137 is designed for both physical science majors and non-majors.  It is largely non-quantitative in nature; no
      mathematical skills beyond those required for admission to BYU are needed.  Some application of those rudimentary arithmetic,
      algebraic and graph-reading skills occur in lectures, homework assignments and tests.