PH 130 - Survey of Physics

• Define and use displacement, velocity, and acceleration in one dimension as well as understand the graphical relationship between them
• List, explain, and use Newton’s three laws in one dimension
• 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 Archimedes’ Principle, Pascal’s Principle and Bernouilli’s Principle
• State and use Coulomb’s Law and Ohm’s Law
• State and use the law of reflection and refraction as well as use the object-image formula for thin lenses and mirrors
• 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

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• One-dimensional kinematics (4 classes)
• One-dimensional mechanics (4 classes)
• Energy (3 classes)
• Thermodynamics (3 classes)
• Fluid dynamics (2 classes)
• Coulomb’s Law and simple circuits (5 classes)
• Optics (6 classes)
• Modern physics (3 classes)

• One-dimensional motion
• Newton’s Second Law
• Conservation of mechanical energy
• Oscillatory motion
• Specific heat and heat of fusion
• Problem solving, measuring temperature with limited means
• Resistors and Ohm’s Law
• Mirrors or lenses
• Grating spectrometer
• Half-life determination