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Handout 1: Solar Physics and Extra-Terrestrial Radiation
Handout 2: Atmospheric Attenuation
Handout 3: History of Solar Thermal Power
Handout 4: The Global Energy Picture Today
HOMEWORK 1 Solar ET Spectrum.xls
Handout 6: Solar Site Design and Planning
Handout 7: Measuring Solar Radiation and Solar Data
Handout 8: Local Solar Radiation Data
Handout 9: Modeling Solar Radiation
Handout 10: History of Solar Water Heating
Handout 11: Types of Flat Plate Collectors and Absorbers
Handout 12: Transmittance of Glazing
Handout 13: Absorber Surface Properties
Handout 14: Energy Loss and Useful Energy Delivered to Fluid
HOMEWORK 5 (due Monday, 5/14)
HOMEWORK 6 (problems 2 and 4 are due Monday)
Handout 15: Solar Water Heating Systems
Flat Panel Collector Spec Sheet
Guide to Writing Lab Reports (tutorials are based on an old version of MS Word. However, you still want to use the OLD equation editor,
MS Equation 3.0. To use it, go to Insert, then Object, then scroll down to find MS Equation 3.0)
Nova (PBS): Secrets of the Sun
Powering the Planet (PBS's Earth: The Operators Manual)
YouTube Lecture: Powering the Planet, by Nate Lewis (from Caltech) Powerpoint slides
New Images of the Sun and Solar Prominences, from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
National Solar Radiation Database. For local solar radiation data, download Typical Meteorological Year (TMY3) files from on this page.
Sun Path Diagram Generator, from the University of Oregon's Solar Radiation Monitoring Laboratory
Solargraphs using a Pinhole Camera: These are essentially photographic "plots" of the sun path!
How do you measure the temperature of a star? Link 1 Link 2
Who was Samuel Pierpont Langley? Wikipedia listing A better biography, with publications and discussion of solar work