Explores solar energy conversion devices, thermal transport basics, solar thermal collectors, semiconductors, electrochemistry, and concentrated solar power.
Explores Earth's energy balance, including solar radiation interaction with the atmosphere and surface, blackbody radiation, and atmospheric processes.
Explores the photon concept in electromagnetic waves, including energy, momentum, emission by charges, coherence length, and the electromagnetic spectrum.
Discusses the properties and interactions of electromagnetic waves, focusing on their propagation, spectrum, and implications for environmental detection.
Explores the fundamentals and applications of solar energy, covering characteristics, optics, semiconductor physics, electrochemistry, and thermochemistry.
Explores spacecraft electrical power sources, including solar panels, batteries, fuel cells, and radioisotope generators, with examples from past space missions.
Explores the emission of thermal radiation, covering mechanisms, electromagnetic radiation, temperature relationship, spatial distribution, and black-body radiation.
