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Syllabus: General Physics 101 (Calculus Based) : Chapter 1: Introduction, Measurement, Estimating

This document outlines the syllabus for a calculus-based general physics course. It is a 4-credit hour course that meets for 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of lab per week. The syllabus covers 10 chapters on topics including measurement, motion, forces, energy, fluids, waves, sound, and thermal physics. Each chapter is scheduled to be covered in 1 or 2 weekly periods and includes the relevant sections and example problems from the textbook.

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Syllabus: General Physics 101 (Calculus Based) : Chapter 1: Introduction, Measurement, Estimating

This document outlines the syllabus for a calculus-based general physics course. It is a 4-credit hour course that meets for 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of lab per week. The syllabus covers 10 chapters on topics including measurement, motion, forces, energy, fluids, waves, sound, and thermal physics. Each chapter is scheduled to be covered in 1 or 2 weekly periods and includes the relevant sections and example problems from the textbook.

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Syllabus: General Physics 101(Calculus Based)

Textbook: Physics for scientists and engineers D.C Giancoli (Fourth edition)
Credit Hours: 4
Weekly load: (3 hours lectures sessions, 3 hours Lab. Sessions + tutorials)

Chapter 1: Introduction, Measurement, Estimating (1 Week)

• 1.3 Measurement and uncertainty; Significant Figures (P. 9)


• 1.4 Units, Standards, and the SI system (P. 12)
• 1.5 Converting Units (P.14) {Example 2, Example 3, Example 4}
• 1.7 Dimensions and Dimensional analysis (P. 18) {(Example 10 P. 19}

Chapter 2: Describing Motion: Kinetics in One Dimension (1 Week)

• 2.1 Reference Frames and displacement (P. 29)


• 2.2 Average Velocity (P. 30) {Example 1 P. 31}
• 2.3 Instantaneous velocity (P.32) {Example 3 P. 34}
• 2.4 Acceleration (P.34) {Example 6 P. 39}
• 2.5 Motion at constant Acceleration (P. 38) {Example 9 P. 39}
• 2.6 Solving Problems (P. 40) {Example 10 P.40}
• 2.7 Freely falling Objects (P. 44) {Example 16 P. 46}

Chapter 3: Kinetics in Two or Three Dimensions, Vectors (1 Week)

• 3.1 Vectors and Scalars (P. 66)


• 3.2 Addition of vectors, graphical methods (P.66)
• 3.3. Subtraction of vectors, and multiplication of a vectors by a scalar (P.68)
• 3.4 Adding vectors by components (P. 69)
• 3.5 Unit vectors (P.73)
• 3.6 Vectors Kinematics (P.73)
• 3.7 Projectile motion (P.76) {Example 6 P.79}

Chapter 4: Dynamics; Newton’s Laws of Motion (2 Weeks)

• 4.1 Force (P.102)


• 4.2 Newton’s First Law of Motion (P.102)
• 4.3 Mass (P.104)
• 4.4 Newton’s Second Law of Motion (P.104) {Example 3 P.106}
• 4.5 Newton’s Third Law of Motion (P. 107)
• 4.6 Weight – The force of Gravity and the Normal Force (P. 110) {Example 6 P. 111}
• 4.7 Solving Problem with Newton’s Laws- Free body diagram (P. 113) {Examples 11
P.115 and 16 P.119}

Chapter 5: Work and Energy (P. 193) (1 Week)

• 5.1 Work done by a constant force (P. 194) {Example 1 P. 195}


• 5.2 Scalar product of two vectors (P. 197) {Example 2 P. 199}
• 5.4 Kinetic energy and the work-energy principle (P. 202) {Example 8 P. 204}

Chapter 6: Conservation of energy (P. 217) (1 Week)

• 6.1 Conservative and Non-conservative forces (P. 218)


• 6.2 Potential energy (P. 220) {Example 1 P. 221}
• 6.3 Mechanical energy and its conservation (P. 223) {Example 4 P. 225}
• 6.4 Problem solving using Conservation of mechanical energy (P. 224) {Example 4 P.
225}
• 6.8 Power (P. 235) {Example 15 P. 237}

Chapter 7: Fluids (P. 395) (2 Weeks)

• 7.2 Density and specific gravity (P396) {Example 1 P. 397}


• 7.3 Pressure in Fluids (P. 397) {Examples 2 P. 397 and 3 P.399}
• 7.4 Atmospheric Pressure and Gauge Pressure (P. 401)
• 7.5 Pascal’s Principle (P. 402)
• 7.6 Measurement of Pressure, Barometer (P. 402)
• 7.7 Buoyancy and Archimedes’ Principle (P. 404) {Example 9 P. 405}
• 7.8 Fluids in motion; Flow rate and the Equation of continuity (P. 408) {Example 14 P.
410}
• 7.9 Bernoulli’s Equation (P. 410) {Example 15 P. 411}

Chapter 8: Wave Motion (P. 457) (1 Week)

• 8.1 Characteristics of wave motion (P. 458)


• 8.2 Types of waves: Transverse and longitudinal (P. 460)
Velocity of transverse waves (P. 461) {Example 2 P.462}
• 8.3 Energy transported by waves (P. 465) {Example 4 P. 465}
• 8.4 Mathematical representation of traveling waves (P. 466) {Example 5 P. 467}
• 8.6 The principle of superposition (P. 470)
• 8.8 Interference (P. 472)
• 8.9 Standing Waves (P. 474) {Examples 8 P. 475 and 9 P.476}

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Chapter 9: Sound (P. 490) (1 Week)

• 9.1 Characteristics of sound (P.491) {Example 2 P.492}


• 9.3 Intensity of sound: Decibels (P.493) {Examples 3 and 4 P.494}
• 9.6 Interference of sound waves (P. 503) {Example 12 P. 503}

Chapter 10: Temperature, Thermal expansion and the ideal gas law (P. 526) (1 Week)

• 10.1 Atomic theory of matter (P.527) {Example 1 P.528}


• 10.2 Temperature and thermometers (P.528) {Example 2 P.530}
• 10.3 Thermal equilibrium and the zero law of thermodynamics (P.531)
• 10.4 Thermal expansion (P.531) {Example 3 P.532}
• 10.6 The Gas laws and the absolute temperature (P.535)

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