PH 130 - Applications of Physics

• Define and use displacement, velocity, and acceleration in one dimension as well as understand the graphical relationship between them
• Break vectors into components and add vectors by components
• List, explain, and use Newton’s three laws in one and two dimensions
• Define work, power, kinetic energy, and potential energy and apply them to conservation of energy
• Know the factors that are essential to calculate the heat necessary to change the temperature or state of a material
• State and discuss the three heat transfer mechanisms
• State and use Pascal’s Principle and Bernouilli’s Equation
• State and use the law of refraction as well as use the thin lens equation
• Know the basic parts of the eye and the function of each
• Explain radioactivity, half life, and state the properties of alpha, beta, and gamma radiation.
• Use graphical analysis to interpret data
• Design, conduct and analyze an experiment to determine an unknown temperature with limited means
• Find the focal length of a converging lens experimentally
• Use decay data to determine the half-life of a sample

• Two years of high school mathematics

• Vectors (3 classes)
• One Dimensional Kinematics (3 classes)
• Two Dimensional Mechanics (6 classes)
• Energy (4 classes)
• Thermodynamics (4 classes)
• Fluid Dynamics (4 classes)
• Optics (3 classes)
• Nuclear Physics (3 classes)

• Measurements, Significant Figures and Uncertainty
• One Dimensional motion
• Newton’s First Law
• Newton’s Second Law
• Conservation of Mechanical Energy
• Specific Heat and Heat of Fusion
• Problem solving, Measuring Temperature with Limited Means
• Lenses
• Grating Spectrometer
• Radioactivity, Half-Life Determination