The study of environmental physics requires understanding topics from
many di?erent areas of physics as well as comprehension of phy- cal
aspects of the world around us. Several excellent textbooks are
available covering most aspects of environmental physics and of appli-
tions of physics to the natural environment from various points of view.
However, while teaching environmental physics to university students, I
sorelymissedabookspeci?callydevotedtoexercisesfortheenvironm- tal
science student. Thus, the motivation for this book came about as in
physics, as well as in many other disciplines, satisfactory knowledge of
a subject cannot be acquired without practice. Usually students are not
familiar with the various areas of physics that are required to describe
both the environment and the human impact upon it. At the same time,
students need to develop skills in the manipulation of the ideas and c-
cepts learned in class. Therefore, this exercise book is addressed to
all levels of university students in environmental sciences. Because of
the wide range of potential users this book contains both calculus-based
and algebra-based problems ranging from very simple to advanced ones.
Multiple solutions at di?erent levels are presented for
certainproblems--thestudentwhoisjustbeginningtolearncalculuswill bene't
from the comparison of the di?erent methods of solution. The material is
also useful for courses in atmospheric physics, environmental aspects of
energy generation and transport, groundwater hydrology, soil physics,
andoceanphysics, andselectedpartsmayevenbeusedforbasic undergraduate
physics courses. This collection of exercises is based on courses taught
at the University of Northern British Columbia and at the University of
Victoria, Canada.
