Week 6 Air Pressure and wind

This page presents week 6 learning activities and assignments.  Carefully working through this page will help you understand homework, online quizzes, and future exam questions.   All assignments are due on Monday at 11:55 PM of next week.

 

 

unit instructions and learning activities Assignment
6.1

Reading:  Chapter 8 (Air Pressure and winds)

 

Powerpoint:   Chapter 8 (part I)Work through and read comments and notes

You should be able to do Canvas quiz Ch8A after studying the above.

 
Yes
6.2 Watch video on Pressure Blocks (from amer Met society 3:34)  
6.3

Watch this movie on gas laws. (2.5 min) 

Test your understanding with these Practice Quiz Questions (gas laws)

See Review questions with answers on Pressure 

Both of these are good study questions for the exam.

 
     
6.4  PowerPoint Newton's Laws Work through and read comments and notes

Here's a practice quiz to test your understanding and to practice for the exam.

 
6.5 Power Point Chapter 8 (part II)  Work through and read comments and notes

You should be able to do Canvas quiz Ch8B after studying the above.

Yes
6.6

Watch the movie on Coriolis Force. (2 min)

 

Here's another good coriolis force movie (2:44) it was made in Australia so the merry go round spins in the direction for the southern hemisphere.

 

Watch the movie on Geostrophic wind.

Watch the video on low and high pressures (9:00)

Watch the High Low Pressure video  (2:22)  Note:  the little bit about the sinks at the end of this video is kind of corny.

A final video on Lows and highs

 
6.7 Test your understanding with these practice questions with answers (forces and winds)  
6.8

Watch the Introduction to Thermal circulation movie (3:28)

 

Reading:  Chapter 9 (selected items:  sea breeze, land breeze, SE asian winter monsson, SE Asian summer monsoon, Sea breeze convergence in Florida, katabatic winds, Santa Anna winds)

 

Powerpoint: Thermal Circulation  Work through and read comments and notes

 

Test your understanding with these practice questions with answers (thermal circulation)

 

You should be able to do Canvas quiz ThCir after studying the above.

 
 

 

Yes

6.9 Key terms Chapter 8 & 9: 

Lab for week 6: see Labs  (We will do this in lab during our face to face meeting and handouts will be provided)

 

Gas Laws Avtivity (20 points)  Submit through Canvas

 

Yes

 

Yes

6.10 Don't forget:

1) the Weather Story is due Monday at the beginning of Week7  (May 22)

2)   Don't forget our week 5 and 6 discussion, see Canvas Unit 5.  Post your original post during week 5 and reply to at least two other posts after you post your original post.  All replies are due by Monday of week 7.

3)  Exam #2 will be available from Friday May 19 through Wed May 24 .  Study everything from after Exam #1 up to this point for Exam #2 (weeks 4, 5, and 6 learning hubs).  You may use your notes, the text, or the internet to answer questions.  The exam will include 35-40 questions randomly selected from a test bank of approximately 200 questions.  If you study you will likely be able to answer most questions without looking anything up.  You may want to use references for a few questions.  There is a 60 minute time limit so don't spend too much of your time looking things up.

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6.11  

Extra credit idea: 

1.Use the Mountain Cloud simulator at

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~abc/java/mtnsim/mtnsim.html to  answer questions in this assignment sheet. (there are also some questions right on the simulation site but ignore these)

2.  Read the article "The Efficiency Dilemma" and write a summary.  see summary of paper for extra credit for guidelines

3.  Do a web search on Bernoulli's principle and write a 700 word summary of your findings.

 Gas Laws Activity  (10 points)