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COURSE CODE: PHYS-1007 COURSE NAME: GENERAL PHYSICS II:
MECHANICAL WAVE, FLUID MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS
FACULTY MEMBER: WENFENG CHEN
2012-13
2013-14
CALENDAR COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course, specializing to students in Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science and Technology, Bachelor of
General and Liberal Science programs, introduces fundamental concepts and physical laws in fluid dynamics,
mechanical wave, thermodynamics and their applications in modern science and technology. Topics cover:
simple harmonic motion; sinusoidal wave, energy transportation by mechanical waves, sound wave, the
Doppler effect; interference of waves, standing wave; pressure, buoyant forces and Archimedes’s principle in
static fluid; continuity equation and Bernoulli’s equation for fluid flow; notion of temperature and zeroth law
of thermodynamics, ideal gas law, kinetic theory of ideal gases and microscopic interpretation of temperature;
first law of thermodynamics; thermal processes; specific heats; heat engine and pump, entropy, reversible and
irreversible processes, second law of thermodynamics.
EXPECTATIONS:
BY THE END OF THE COURSE STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO:
1. DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND
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APPLICATIONS OF PHYSICAL LAWS OF FLUID MECHANICS BY EVALUATING THE PRESSURE
PRODUCED BY A STATIC FLUID AT A CERTAIN DEPTH, THE LIFT FORCE PRODUCED BY A
HYDRAULIC PRESS ACCORDING TO PASCAL’S LAW AND THE BUOYANT FORCE IN TERMS OF
ARCHIMEDES’S PRINCIPLE, AND BY USING THE EQUATION FOR IDEAL FLUIDS AND
BERNOULLI’S EQUATION TO FIND THE SPEED AND PRESSURE OF A MOVING IDEAL FLUID
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF SIMPLE HARMONIC
MOTION BY USING NEWTON’S SECOND LAW TO DERIVE EQUATIONS OF MOTION DESCRIBING
A SPRING-BLOCK SYSTEM AND A SIMPLE PENDULUM, FINDING OUT THE OSCILLATION
AMPLITUDE, FREQUENCY, PERIOD, PHASE CONSTANT, AND POSITION AND VELOCITY FROM
THE SOLUTION OF THE EQUATION, CALCULATING THE POSITION AND VELOCITY AT A
CERTAIN TIME, AND CALCULATING KINETIC ENERGY, POTENTIAL ENERGY AND THE
CONVERSION BETWEEN KINETIC ENERGY AND POTENTIAL ENERGY DURING A HARMONIC
OSCILLATION
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF DAMPED AND FORCED OSCILLATIONS AND ESPECIALLY
THE RESONANCE PHENOMENON BY USING NEWTON’S SECOND LAW TO DERIVE EQUATIONS
OF MOTION DESCRIBING A SPRING-BLOCK SYSTEM, OBSERVING WHETHER A DAMPED
OSCILLATION IS UNDERDAMPED, CRITICALLY DAMPED OR OVERDAMPED, CALCULATING
DAMPED AMPLITUDE AND THE DAMPED FREQUENCY IN THE UNDERDAMPED CASE, AND
FINDING OUT THE RESONANCE FREQUENCY AND THE RESONANT AMPLITUDE IN CASE OF
FORCED OSCILLATION
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES AND IMPLICATIONS OF
MECHANICAL TRAVELLING WAVE BY OBSERVING ITS ORIGIN AND PROPAGATION OF
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MECHANICAL WAVE, EXTRACTING OUT THE AMPLITUDE, PERIOD, FREQUENCY,
WAVELENGTH, WAVE NUMBER, PHASE CONSTANT, WAVE PROPAGATION SPEED FROM A
GIVEN SINUSOIDAL WAVE AND CALCULATING TRANSVERSE SPEED AND TRANSVERSE
ACCELERATION AT A CERTAIN LOCATION AND TIME AND THE RATE OF ENERGY TRANSFER
BY A SINUSOIDAL WAVE, AND FURTHER EXPLAINING REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION OF
WAVE BETWEEN DIFFERENT MEDIA
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES AND APPLICATION OF SOUND
WAVE BY EXPLAINING THE CREATION AND PROPAGATION OF SOUND WAVE, CALCULATING
THE INTENSITY OF A PERIODIC SOUND WAVE
AND SOUND LEVEL, AND FURTHER,
EXPOUNDING PHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF DOPPLER EFFECTS OF SOUND WAVE AND
CALCULATING THE FREQUENCY OF SOUND WAVE WHEN THE SOURCE AND RECEIVER HAVE A
RELATIVE MOTION
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF STANDING WAVES ON A
END-FIXED STRING AND IN AN AIR COLUMN AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN DESIGNING
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS BY USING THE INTERFERENCE OF MECHANICAL WAVE TO EXPLAIN
HOW STANDING WAVES FORM ON A TOUT STRING WITH TWO ENDS FIXED AND IN A PIPE
WITH ONE END OR TWO ENDS OPEN, FINDING LOCATIONS AND NUMBERS OF NODES AND
ANTINODES ACCORDING TO THE LENGTH OF THE STRING OR THE PIPE, AND CALCULATING
FUNDAMENTAL AND HARMONIC FREQUENCIES IN EACH CASE
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL IMPLICATION OF ZEROTH LAW OF
THERMODYNAMICS AND THE RESULTANT NOTION OF TEMPERATURE AND ITS MACROSCOPIC
PHYSICAL EFFECTS BY EXPOUNDING THE MEANING OF THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM,
DEFINITIONS OF THE CELSIUS AND THE ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURE SCALES AND PHYSICAL
PRINCIPLES USED TO DESIGN THERMOMETERS TO MEASURE TEMPERATURE, AND
CALCULATING THERMAL EXPANSION OF SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS AND DISTINGUISHING THE
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR OF WATER. FURTHER, DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE
MICROSCOPIC ORIGIN OF TEMPERATURE AS THE KINETIC ENERGY OF MOLECULES BY USING
A MOLECULAR MODEL OF AN IDEAL GAS TO CALCULATE THE TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE
AS WELL AS MOLAR SPECIFIC HEAT OF IDEAL GAS
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL CONTENTS AND APPLICATIONS OF THE
FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS BY EXPOUNDING THE PHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF
INTERNAL ENERGY AND HEAT, CALCULATING THE HEAT WHEN SUBSTANCES OF DIFFERENT
TEMPERATURES ARE MIXED TOGETHER AND LATENT HEAT WHEN PHASE CHANGES OF A
CERTAIN SUBSTANCE HAPPENS, AND MEASURING SPECIFIC HEAT WITH THE TECHNIQUE OF
CALORIMETRY, AND USING THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS TO CALCULATE WORK,
HEAT AND INTERNAL ENERGY CHANGE IN SOME TYPICAL THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS OF
IDEAL GAS INCLUDING ISOBARIC, ISOVOLUMETRIC, ISOTHERMAL AND ADIABATIC PROCESSES
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF
THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS BY EXPOUNDING THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF
REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES, CALCULATING THE THERMAL EFFICIENCY OF
HEAT ENGINE AND HEAT PUMP, EXPLAINING PHYSICAL EQUIVALENCE OF TWO STATEMENTS
OF THE SECOND LAW, DESCRIBING CARNOT CYCLE OF CARNOT ENGINE AND EVALUATING
THE THERMAL EFFICIENCY OF CARNOT ENGINE, CALCULATING THE ENTROPY CHANGE IN A
REVERSIBLE OR AN IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS, AND EXPOUNDING THE ENTROPY STATEMENT
OF THE SECOND LAW
DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS BY DEVELOPING SKILL AND
ABILITY IN PHYSICAL EXPERIMENT DESIGN AND SET-UP, EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENT AND
DEVICE OPERATION, EXPERIMENT DATA COLLECTING AND PROCESSING, AND
EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF PHYSICAL LAWS IN FLUID MECHANICS, MECHANICAL WAVE AND
THERMODYNAMICS
OUTCOMES:
SUCCESSFUL GRADUATES OF THIS COURSE WILL DEMONSTRATE
1. A DEVELOPED KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF KEY CONCEPTS,
METHODOLOGIES, THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS IN
FLUID MECHANICS, MECHANICAL WAVE AND THERMODYNAMICS, AND A CLEAR
COMPREHENSION ON THE APPLICATIONS OF FLUID MECHANICS, MECHANICAL WAVE
AND THERMODYNAMICS IN OTHER BRANCHES OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
2. AN DEVELOPED ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE IN FLUID MECHANICS, MECHANICAL
WAVE AND THERMODYNAMICS TO REAL-LIFE PROBLEMS AND TO CREATE
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MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR SUCH PROBLEMS
AN ABILITY OF UNDERSTANDING PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE
PHENOMENA, EQUIPMENTS AND APPARATUS RELEVANT TO FLUID MECHANICS,
MECHANICAL WAVE AND THERMODYNAMICS
AN APPRECIATION OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FLUID MECHANICS,
MECHANICAL WAVE AND THERMODYNAMICS AND THEIR PRESENT KNOWLEDGE
STRUCTURES
A DEVELOPED ABILITY TO SUCCEED IN FUTURE STUDY AND CAREERS RELEVANT TO
PHYSICS OF FLUID MECHANICS, MECHANICAL WAVE AND THERMODYNAMICS
AN ABILITY OF APPLYING PHYSICAL CONCEPTS, PRINCIPLES AND LAWS OF FLUID
MECHANICS, MECHANICAL WAVE AND THERMODYNAMICS TO PROBLEMS IN OTHER
BRANCHES OF NATURAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
A DEVELOPED ABILITY OF APPLYING ADVANCED MATHEMATICS SUCH AS CALCULUS,
VECTOR ALGEBRA, ANALYTIC GEOMETRY, ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA AND
ELEMENTARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION TO THE PROBLEMS OF FLUID MECHANICS,
MECHANICAL WAVE AND THERMODYNAMICS