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Forinash, Kyle, - Personal Name; Institute of Physics (Great Britain), - Personal Name; Morgan & Claypool Publishers, - Personal Name;

"Version: 20170501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Population and its effects -- 1.1. Population -- 1.2. Water and food -- 1.3. Pollution -- 1.4. The effects of pollution2. Energy conservation and the first law of thermodynamics -- 2.1. The first law of thermodynamics -- 2.2. Efficiency -- 2.3. Energy transfer -- 2.4. Walls and windows -- 2.5. Lighting -- 2.6. Energy transfer using electricity3. Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics -- 3.1. Entropy remains constant or increases in a closed system -- 3.2. In a closed system heat flows from hot to cold -- 3.3. The Carnot cycle is the most efficient -- 3.4. Heat engines -- 3.5. Refrigerators and heat pumps -- 3.6. Fuel cells and batteries -- 3.7. Entropy changes for electrical processes4. Non-renewable energy -- 4.1. Fossil fuels -- 4.2. Petroleum -- 4.3. Natural gas -- 4.4. Coal -- 4.5. Projections -- 4.6. Energy return on energy invested5. Nuclear energy -- 5.1. Nuclear reactions -- 5.2. Nuclear reactors -- 5.3. The refining process -- 5.4. Radioactive waste -- 5.5. Radiation -- 5.6. Safety concerns -- 5.7. Nuclear fusion6. Renewable energy -- 6.1. Hydropower -- 6.2. Wind -- 6.3. Biomass -- 6.4. Geothermal -- 6.5. Solar -- 6.6. Tides, waves and other -- 6.7. Potential and cost of renewables7. Energy storage -- 7.1. Embodied energy -- 7.2. Transportable fuel -- 7.3. The need for large scale energy storage -- 7.4. Solar thermal energy storage -- 7.5. Batteries -- 7.6. Flow batteries -- 7.7. Flywheels -- 7.8. Capacitors -- 7.9. Compressed air -- 7.10. Superconducting magnets8. Transportation -- 8.1. Energy needed to accelerate and move a vehicle -- 8.2. The energy cost of energy -- 8.3. Using hydrogen for transportation -- 8.4. Well-to-wheels or life-cycle efficiency -- 8.5. Transportation alternatives -- 8.6. Transportation risk9. Climate -- 9.1. Radiation balance -- 9.2. The carbon cycle -- 9.3. Paleoclimatology -- 9.4. Climate modeling -- 9.5. Weather versus climate -- 9.6. Effects of human caused climate change10. Cost, benefit, risk -- 10.1. Risk -- 10.2. Calculation of risk -- 10.3. Compared risks -- 10.4. Risk of new technology -- 10.5. Perception of risk -- 10.6. Economic factors -- 10.7. Energy efficiency and the economy.Physics and the Environment directly connects the physical world to environmental issues that the world is facing today and will face in the future. It shows how the first and second laws of thermodynamics limit the efficiencies of fossil-fuel energy conversions to less than 100%, while also discussing how clever technologies can enhance overall performance. It also extensively discusses renewable forms of energy, their physical constraints and how we must use science and engineering as tools to solve problems instead of opinion and politics.Undergraduate or graduate survey course, general reader.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Kyle Forinash is Professor of Physics at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana. He has published technical papers on non-linear dynamics, in addition to pedagogical papers about the use of computers and cell phones for data collection in student laboratories. He is the author of two books, one in mathematical physics and the other in environmental physics. His current interests include applications of physics to environmental issues and open-source computer simulations for physics education.Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 12, 2017).

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Collation: 1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color), maps.
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9781681744933
Classification: 333.79
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Subject(s): Geophysics.
Physics.
Environmental Physics & Clean Technology.
First law of thermodynamics.
Second law of thermodynamics.
Energy conservation.
Energy consumption
Human ecology.
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Statement of Responsibility: Kyle Forinash III.

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