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COURSE EXPECTATIONS COURSE CODE: PHYS-1006 COURSE NAME: GENERAL PHYSICS I: MECHANICS 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 classical mechanics and their applications in modern science and technology. Topics include: one- and two-dimensional motions; Newton’s three laws of motion and application; work, power, kinetic energy, potential energy, workenergy theorem and law of mechanical energy conservation; impulse, momentum, impulse-momentum theorem and momentum conservation, collision; notions in rotational motion including angular position, angular speed, and angular acceleration, moment of inertial, toque, work and energy in rotational mention, angular momentum and conservation law of angular momentum; Newton’s law of universal gravitation, and Kepler’s three laws; planetary and satellite motion. EXPECTATIONS: BY THE END OF THE COURSE STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO: 1. DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE KINEMATICAL CONCEPTS IN ONE- AND TWODIMENSIONAL MOTIONS BY CALCULATING POSITION, DISPLACEMENT, VELOCITY, ACCELERATION, DISTANCE AND SPEED OF A MOVING OBJECT AT A CERTAIN TIME AND SKETCH POSITION-TIME AND VELOCITY-TIME GRAPHS, AND SKILLFULLY USING KINEMATIC 2. 3. 4. EQUATIONS TO SOLVE PHYSICAL PROBLEMS IN A NUMBER OF ANALYSIS MODELS SUCH AS MOTION UNDER CONSTANT ACCELERATION, PROJECTILE MOTION, UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL CONTENTS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF NEWTON’S THREE LAWS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS BY USING THE THREE LAWS TO ANALYZE HOW A FORCE CAUSES THE MOTION CHANGE OF AN OBJECT, AND FURTHER, CONCEPTUALIZE, CATEGORIZE, AND MODEL DYNAMICAL PROBLEMS. SKILLFULLY APPLY NEWTON’S SECOND LAW TO SOME ANALYSIS MODELS SUCH AS A PARTICLE UNDER CONSTANT FORCE, A PARTICLE IN UNIFORM AND NON-UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION, AND THE MOTION CAUSED BY RESISTIVE FORCE DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPTS AND PHYSICAL MEANINGS OF WORK, POWER, KINETIC ENERGY AND POTENTIAL ENERGY OF A SYSTEM BY USING THEIR DEFINITIONS TO CALCULATE THE WORK AND POWER DONE BY A FORCE, KINETIC ENERGY OF A MOVING OBJECT AND POTENTIAL ENERGY ASSOCIATED TO A CONSERVATIVE FORCE. SKILLFULLY APPLY THE WORK-KINETIC THEOREM, THE CONSERVATION LAW OF MECHANICAL ENERGY IN AN ISOLATED SYSTEM AND THE GENERALIZED CONSERVATION LAW ENERGY FOR A NON-ISOLATED SYSTEM TO SOLVE SOME TYPICAL DYNAMICAL PROBLEMS INVOLVING GRAVITATIONAL FORCE, SPRING-BLOCK SYSTEM AND FRICTION FORCE DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPTS AND PHYSICAL MEANINGS OF IMPULSE AND LINEAR MOMENTUM BY DERIVING THEIR DEFINITIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FROM NEWTON’S SECOND LAW AND THIRD LAW, AND USING THE DEFINITIONS TO EVALUATE LINEAR MOMENTUM OF A MOVING OBJECT AND IMPULSE PRODUCED BY A FORCE ACTING ON 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. AN OBJECT DURING A SHORT-TIME INTERVAL. FURTHER, SKILLFULLY USE THE IMPULSEMOMENTUM THEOREM FOR A NON-ISOLATED SYSTEM TO CONCEPTUALIZE, ANALYZE AND SOLVE DYNAMICAL PROBLEMS INVOLVING AN SHORT-LIVING EXTERNAL FORCE ACTING ON A SYSTEM, AND APPLY THE LAW OF LINEAR MOMENTUM CONSERVATION TOGETHER WITH THE CONSERVATION OF KINETIC ENERGY CONSERVATION TO THE PROBLEMS OF ELASTIC AND INELASTIC COLLISIONS IN ONE DIMENSION AND TWO DIMENSIONS DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT OF CENTER OF MASS AND ITS APPLICATION BY USING THE DEFINITION TO FIND THE LOCATION OF CENTER OF MASS OF A SYSTEM OF PARTICLES AND AN OBJECT WITH CONTINUOUS MASS DISTRIBUTION AND REGULAR GEOMETRICAL SHAPE, AND USING THE IDEA OF CENTER OF MASS REPRESENTING AN ENTIRE PHYSICAL SYSTEM TO DEAL WITH DYNAMICS OF A SYSTEM OF PARTICLES DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPTS AND PHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES TO DESCRIBE THE ROTATION OF A RIGID BODY ABOUT A FIXED AXIS BY CALCULATING ANGULAR POSITION, ANGULAR VELOCITY AND ANGULAR ACCELERATION USING DEFINITIONS OR THE KINEMATIC EQUATIONS IN THE CASE RIGID BODY UNDERGOES A ROTATION WITH CONSTANT ANGULAR ACCELERATION; EVALUATING THE MOMENT OF INERTIAL OF A RIGID BODY WITH SYMMETRIC GEOMETRIC SHAPE ABOUT A FIXED AXIS AND THE ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY; USE VECTOR PRODUCT TO CALCULATE TOQUE AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM ACCORDING TO THEIR DEFINITIONS. SKILLFULLY USE THE ROTATIONAL ANALOGUE OF NEWTON’S SECOND LAW TO DESCRIBE A RIGID BODY UNDER NET TORQUE AND THE CONSERVATION LAW OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN AN ISOLATED ROTATIONAL SYSTEM, COMBINED WITH THE CONSERVATION LAW OF MECHANICAL ENERGY TO FIND ANGULAR ACCELERATION AND ANGULAR VELOCITY DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TWO CONDITIONS FOR A RIGID OBJECT IN EQUILIBRIUM BY UTILIZING THEM TO CHECK WHETHER A RIGID BODY IS IN EQUILIBRIUM OR TO FIND THE REQUIRED FORCES TO KEEP A RIGID BODY IN EQUILIBRIUM DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS OF NEWTON’S UNIVERSAL GRAVITATIONAL LAW BY USING IT TO FIND THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE BETWEEN ANY TWO MASSIVE OBJECTS AND DERIVE KEPLER’S THREE LAWS FOR CELESTIAL MOTION, AND BY APPLYING IT TO THE CALCULATION OF GRAVITATIONAL FIELD CREATED BY THE EARTH AND GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY OF THE EARTH-OBJECT SYSTEM, AND A DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION OF AN OBJECT IN GRAVITATIONAL FIELD 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 CLASSICAL MECHANICS 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 CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND A CLEAR COMPREHENSION ON THE APPLICATIONS OF 2. 3. 4. CLASSICAL MECHANICS IN OTHER BRANCHES OF SCIENCE AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING A DEVELOPED ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS TO REALLIFE PROBLEMS AND TO CREATE MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR SUCH PROBLEMS AN ABILITY OF UNDERSTANDING PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING MECHANICAL PHENOMENA, EQUIPMENTS AND APPARATUS AN APPRECIATION OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND ITS PRESENT KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE 5. A DEVELOPED ABILITY TO SUCCEED IN FUTURE STUDY AND CAREERS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING RELATED TO CLASSICAL MECHANICS 6. AN ABILITY OF APPLYING PHYSICAL CONCEPTS, PRINCIPLES AND LAWS OF CLASSICAL 7. MECHANICS 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 CLASSICAL MECHANICS