PHYS 2411 - Physics I

Course last offered 

 :   

Fall 2011/12

Instructor(s)

 :

Yee Fai NG

No. of credits

 :

4



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 14 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) / tutorial hour(s) / laboratory hour(s) per week: 3 / 1 / 2

 

Content

  • Straight line motion, vector quantities
  • Two- and three- dimensional motion
  • Newton’s Laws of motion
  • Friction, drag and centripetal force
  • Work kinetic energy theorem
  • Conservation of energy
  • Centre of mass and momentum
  • Rotational motion: Newton's Laws, kinetic energy
  • Rotational motion: Torque, angular momentum
  • Newtonian gravitation
  • Simple harmonic motion
  • Transverse waves
  • Longitudinal waves
  • First law of thermodynamics
  • Kinetic theory of gases

 

Remarks

  • Exclusion: PHYS 1411, PHYS 1431, PHYS 2421
  • Prerequisite: AS*/AL** Physics or AL** Engineering Science

 

* AS – Advanced Supplementary Level of Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination
* *AL – Advanced Level of Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination

 

 

PHYS 2411 will not be offered w.e.f. Spring 2012/13. It can be substituted by PHYS 1111 or PHYS 1112 or PHYS 1151 or PHYS 1152, together with PHYS 1113.