These assignments are based partly on your textbook reading and partly on lecture material. Please contact your TA if you have questions.

Please print the assignment (PDF document) exactly as formatted: single one-sided pages. Please do not print double-sided nor rewrite the assignment by hand. The assignment is formatted to facilitate rapid grading.

Write your name and TA's name in the spaces at the top of each page, and print or write your answers NEATLY in the spaces provided. You need not write complete sentences so long as your meaning is clear.

Please clip or staple the pages together when finished and turn in the assignment to your TA. The due date is the start of class on the Monday following the assignment.

Academic Honesty: Please work independently. Your work must be original—copied assignments will receive zero credit. Please make sure your name is on each sheet and print/write as neatly as possible.

UPDATE: The answers to questions on page 5 were erroneously included when the assignment was first posted. As a result, this page has been eliminated from the assignment, which now is worth 20 points. The answers are now posted separately as a Puget Sound "study sheet." The value of the final exam will be increased by 5 points to account for the missing credit.

There is some reading from the National Renewable Energy Lab report linked on the lecture schedule page.

There is some reading from the Seattle Times linked below.

There is optional supplementary reading from the journal Science linked below.