PHYS 1411 - General Physics I

Course last offered 

 :   

Fall 2011/12

Instructor(s)

 :

Yilong HAN

No. of credits

 :

3



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 14 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) per week: 3

 

Content

  • Laws of motion
  • Applications of Newton's Laws
  • Circular motion
  • Energy and work
  • Conservation of energy
  • Linear momentum and collisions
  • Rotation of rigid object
  • Angular momentum
  • Oscillatory motion
  • Wave motion
  • Sound waves
  • Superposition and standing waves
  • Temperature
  • The Kinetic Theory of Gases
  • Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

 

Remarks

  • Exclusion: PHYS 2411

 

PHYS 1411 will not be offered w.e.f. 2012/13. It can be substituted by PHYS 1111 or PHYS 1112 or PHYS 1151 or PHYS 1152.