Saturday, December 25, 2010

Syllabus Content For PHY210 Mechanics II and Thermal Physics

Salam to all and nice to meet you. For the next semester  I will be teaching PHY110 and PHY210. Here is the syllabus content for PHY210 which is offered to Part 2 students.

Syllabus Content


1.0 Rotational Motion
      1.1     Angular velocity, acceleration, rotational kinematics
      1.2     Torque and static equilibrium
      1.3     Moment of inertia, angular momentum and its conservation
      1.4     Rotational kinetic energy, conservation of energy in translation and rotation


2.0 Simple Harmonic Motion
      2.1     Simple Harmonic Motion (amplitude, frequency, displacement, velocity, acceleration)
      2.2     Conservation of Energy in SHM
      2.3     Simple Pendulum and Spring
      2.4     Damped Harmonic Motion (qualitative)

3.0 Fluids
      3.1     Hydrostatic pressure
      3.2     Pascal Principle and Application
      3.3     Buoyancy, Archimedes Principle
      3.4     Fluid in motion, Continuity equation
      3.5     Bernoulli's equation and application
      3.6     Viscosity and Poeseuille's Law, Stoke's Law

4.0 Thermal Physics
      4.1     Distinction between temperature and heat, States of Matter
      4.2     Thermometry, Calorimetry, Specific Heat, Latent Heat
      4.3     Change of Phase, Heat Transfer, Conduction

5.0 Gas Laws and Kinetic Theory
      5.1     Boyle's, Charles' and Gay-Lussac's Law
      5.2     Absolute temperature and the Ideal Gas Law
      5.3     Real gas

6.0 Thermodynamics
      6.1     Thermal equilibrium and Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
      6.2     First Law of Thermodynamics
      6.3     The Carnot Cycle and efficiency of engines
      6.4     The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Happy Studying ! Salam