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PHYS 2411 - Physics I
  
Course last offered 
 :   
Fall 2011/12
Instructor(s)
 :
Yee Fai NG
No. of credits
 :
4


Teaching Pattern
  • Duration of course: about 14 weeks
  • Lecture hour(s) / tutorial hour(s) / laboratory hour(s) per week: 3 / 1 / 2
 
Content
  • Straight line motion, vector quantities
  • Two- and three- dimensional motion
  • Newton’s Laws of motion
  • Friction, drag and centripetal force
  • Work kinetic energy theorem
  • Conservation of energy
  • Centre of mass and momentum
  • Rotational motion: Newton's Laws, kinetic energy
  • Rotational motion: Torque, angular momentum
  • Newtonian gravitation
  • Simple harmonic motion
  • Transverse waves
  • Longitudinal waves
  • First law of thermodynamics
  • Kinetic theory of gases
 
Remarks
  • Exclusion: PHYS 1411, PHYS 1431, PHYS 2421
  • Prerequisite: AS*/AL** Physics or AL** Engineering Science
 
* AS – Advanced Supplementary Level of Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination
* *AL – Advanced Level of Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination
 
 
PHYS 2411 will not be offered w.e.f. Spring 2012/13. It can be substituted by PHYS 1111 or PHYS 1112 or PHYS 1151 or PHYS 1152, together with PHYS 1113.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS