Syllabus
Course Meeting Times
Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session
Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session
Course Description
This subject provides a first course in thermo-sciences for students primarily interested in architecture and building technology. It introduces the fundamentals important to energy, ventilation, air conditioning and comfort in buildings. It includes a detailed treatment of different forms of energy, energy conservation, properties of gases and liquids, air-water vapor mixtures and performance limits for air conditioning and power producing systems. Heat transfer principles are introduced with applications to energy losses from a building envelope. The subject is a prerequisite for more advanced thermo-science subjects in Architecture and Mechanical Engineering.
Prerequisites
8.01 Physics I, 8.02 Physics II
Assignments and Evaluations
The final grade in the course will be based upon homework assignments, two quizzes, two design projects, and class participation. All of the exams will cover material from both the lectures and the homework assignments.
| ACTIVITIES | PERCENTAGES |
|---|---|
| Homework assignments and class participation. Homework will be distributed in class, and due dates announced at that time. The assignments are essential to learning the material. There will be about seven assignments throughout the semester. Each student will make a short presentation of a building that they visited which has interesting energy features. | 17.5% |
| There will be two design projects in this class. They will require creative use of the principles and information given in the course to solve a particular problem, relating to energy consumption in buildings. |
7.5% first design project 15% second design project |
| There will be two quizzes given in class (1 1/2 hour duration each). The content of the quizzes will be discussed in the class sessions prior to the quizzes. | 15% each quiz |
| There will be a three-hour long final exam during the exam period. | 30% |
