Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Environment Physics | ||
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Duration :
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| 12h Th, 24h Pr | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Marc Aubinet | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Course contents :
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| Radiation laws / radiative budget Conduction laws / steady state conductive exchanges Convection laws / steady state convective exchanges Psychrometry / steady state latent heat exchanges Energy budget of biosystems | ||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| - Identify a system and its boundaries, - Identify and quantify energy fluxes exchanged by a system, - Establish the energy budget of a biosystem end identify the driving variables and parameters of the budget. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Physics course (Thermodynamics and Electricity) | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Lectures : 12h Pratcical works : 24 h | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| - Lecture notes - Monteith and Unsworth, Principles of Environmental Physics, Edward Arnold. | ||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written examination | ||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Prof. AUBINET Marc
Bât. GE Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Passage des Déportés 2
5030 Gembloux
+32 81 622488 Marc.Aubinet@ulg.ac.be |
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