2023-2024 / PHYS3036-1

Environmental physics

Duration

18h Th, 18h Pr

Number of credits

 Bachelor in bioengineering3 crédits 

Lecturer

Bernard Longdoz

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Study of the energy and mass budget of naturel systems thanks to the study of

  • Solar radiation laws,
  • Thermal Infra-red radiation laws / Radiative budget,
  • Conduction laws / Steady state and harmonic conductive exchanges,
  • Convection laws / Sensible heat convective exchanges,
  • Psychrometry / Phase change/ Convective latent heat exchanges

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

  • Identify a naturel system and its boundaries,
  • Identify and quantify energy and mass fluxes exchanged by this system,
  • Establish the energy and mass budget of this system end identify the driving variables and parameters of the budget,
  • Predict temperature trends of this system

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

- Thermodynamics course (Bloc 1) - Fluids mechanics and Photometry (Bloc 2)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Additional information:

Lectures : 20h
Pratcical works : 16 h

In the event of an orange code: the lessons will be given remotely and the tutorials will be given face-to-face.

Code red: courses and tutorials will be given on an off-line basis

Recommended or required readings

- Monteith and Unsworth, Principles of Environmental Physics, Edward Arnold.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )


Additional information:

In the event of an Code Green, Yellow, Orange: Examination in writing (True-False + Exercices) in auditorium.

Code Red: Online Exam

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

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Contacts

LONGDOZ Bernard Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Axe Echanges Ecosystèmes Atmosphère 8, Avenue de la Faculté (Bât. 80) 5030 Gembloux
+32 81 622488 Bernard.Longdoz@uliege.be

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