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Apr 24, 2024
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PHY 1110A - Physics I - Mechanics and Thermodynamics4 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
Calculus-level physics course, topics include mechanics, thermodynamics, simple wave theory, and special relativity. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Think Critically. (prereq: none) (coreq: MTH 1110 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply calculus to kinematic quantities such as the position, velocity, and acceleration vectors of an object as a function of time
- Apply Newton’s laws of motion to solve statics and dynamics problems
- Identify forces related to each other through Newton’s third law of motion
- Compute work and apply the work-kinetic energy theorem
- Apply the conservation of energy to solve problems
- Calculate linear momentum and apply the conservation of linear momentum to solve problems
- Apply Newton’s law of universal gravitation to solve problems
- Apply Newton’s law of universal gravitation to calculate gravitational field, gravitational force, and gravitational potential energy
- Analyze simple harmonic systems, relating properties like period and frequency for periodic systems
- Solve rotational kinematics problems by using the kinematic equations for constant angular acceleration or using calculus to relate angular kinematic quantities as functions of time
- Calculate torque (evaluating the vector cross product if required) and relate it to moment of inertia and the angular acceleration of an object
- Apply the standing and traveling wave equations and be able to extract information such as wavelength, frequency, amplitude, and direction from a given wave
- State Einstein’s two postulates of special relativity, relate them to time dilation, length contraction, mass-energy conversions, and relativistic momentum and energy, and be able to perform calculations involving them
- Relate temperature and the first law of thermodynamics to heat energy to thermodynamic processes
- Use kinetics to relate microscopic quantities like RMS speed and RMS molecular kinetic energy to macroscopic quantities like pressure and temperature
- Use the ideal gas law to perform calculations relating pressure, temperature, volume, number density, and molecular kinetic energy
- Calculate both analytically and graphically (PV diagrams) the heat, internal energy and work done when a gas undergoes constant temperature, constant pressure, constant volume, adiabatic, and cyclic processes
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Position, velocity, acceleration
- Newton’s laws of motion
- Work done on an object
- Kinetic energy and potential energy
- Gravitational field and force
- Momentum
- Conservation of energy and linear momentum
- Collisions in 1 and 2 dimensions
- Simple harmonic motion
- Torque
- Moment of inertia
- Time dilation and length contraction
- Relativistic kinetic energy, velocity and momentum
- Mass - energy equivalence
- 1 dimensional transverse sinusoidal waves
- Superposition of sinusoidal waves
- Temperature including absolute temperature
- Thermal equilibrium and the zeroth law of thermodynamics
- Heat transfer by conduction
- Heat transfer by radiation including Blackbody radiation, Wien’s law and Stefan’s law
- Ideal gas law and kinetic theory of gasses
- Specific heat and latent heat
- First law of thermodynamics including PV diagrams in thermodynamic processes
Laboratory Topics
- Uncertainties in measurements
- Free fall
- Projectile motion
- Friction
- Air resistance
- Work and energy
- Momentum and energy in collisions
- Heat transfer
- Blackbody radiation
Coordinator
Dr. Robert Olsson
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