Jacaranda Chemistry 2 Pdf Download
Sharif Garmon
Electrical Engineering majors at Cal State Northridge receive a solid, broad-based education. Among the many topic areas in the basic curriculum are mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer programming, engineering materials, electrical circuits, engineering mechanics, thermodynamics, engineering economy, and numerical analysis. At the senior level, students are required to take an approved concentration in one of the Electrical and Computer Engineering options: biomedical engineering, communications, digital systems design, control systems, electronics, microwave and antenna engineering, or power systems.
Computer Engineering majors receive a broad knowledge in the basic curriculum. Among the many topics are: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electrical circuits, engineering economy, algorithms, programming, and computer organization. Computer Engineering students will take coursework in a number of areas (i.e. computer architecture, digital design) from both the software and hardware points of view, allowing them to get a broader, more complete exposure to the subject. Additionally, these curricula will be unified in the one year senior design project course bringing together the existing Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science programs.
It must be emphasized that this program is based upon an expectation of adequate high school preparation in science, mathematics, and English. High school courses should include algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, chemistry, or physics (both desirable), and four years of English.
All degree programs in engineering accommodate students beginning as freshmen or as transfer students. Transfer students should have completed lower division writing, mathematics, physics, and chemistry courses. Courses that are transferred into the major are reviewed to ensure that they satisfy the same requirements as courses at Northridge. Courses transferred into the engineering major must have been completed with a grade of C or better.
Education and Background
My fascination with chemistry goes all the way back to childhood, when my mom taught me how to bake and then gave me freedom to mix and cook in the kitchen. My dad made a game out of finding solids, liquids, and gases, and he brought puzzles and problem solving into just about every adventure he took us on. Both of my parents taught me that learning was really fun, and was just a part of everyday life.
But though it's common knowledge that trees provide these services, it's also clear that different trees provide those services in different amounts. In southern California for instance, palms provide almost no shade but offer important habitat for owls and bats, while jacaranda trees offer little in the way of benefits to wildlife but provide lots of shade -- and lots of organic matter for soils in the form of shed flowers. Different tree species require different amounts of water in return for the services they provide, which can be a little hard to measure in SoCal given that those species grow in different mixes from one spot to the next. And given Southern California's wildly varied landscapes, with foggy coastal bluffs just a two-hour drive from searingly hot desert slopes, the effect of urban trees on the landscape can be mind-numbingly complex.
The Focal Trees Project is spearheaded by the group Earthwatch and researchers at the University of California Riverside, in cooperation with NASA, the L.A. County Natural History Museum, Amigos de Los Rios, The Nature Conservancy, TreePeople, and others. With work provided by a group of trained citizen scientists, the project aims to mesh precisely timed observations of trees on the ground with flyover data collected by NASA on temperatures, atmospheric chemistry and other environmental factors. The result, project leaders hope, will be a deeper picture of just how our urban trees are doing, and what they need in order to keep providing the ecological services they offer.
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