Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Instructors
Room No.
Office Hours
Email
Telephone
Secretary/TA
TA Office Hours
Course URL (if any)
Fall 2012-13
Course Basics
Credit Hours
Lecture(s)
Recitation (per week)
Lab (if any ) per week
Tutorial (per week)
Course Distribution
Core
Elective
Open for Student Category
Closed for Student Category
4
Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week
Nbr of Rec (s) Per
Week
Nbr of Session(s) Per
Week
Nbr of Tut(s) Per
Week
3
1
Duration
Duration
Duration
1
Duration
60 min
SSE Core
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Introduces the principles of classical mechanics. Straight-line kinematics; motion in a plane; relative inertial frames and relative velocity; forces;
particle dynamics with force; work, conservative forces, potential energy and conservation of energy; conservation of momentum, center of mass
and the center of mass reference frame; rigid bodies and rotational dynamics; conservation of angular momentum; central force motions; special
relativity; waves, simple harmonic motion, oscillations, coupled harmonic oscillators
COURSE PREREQUISITE(S)
None
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Examination Detail
Midterm
Exam
Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Combined
Duration: 3 h
Preferred Date:
Exam Specifications: No books, no notes, no help sheet allowed. Calculators allowed
Final Exam
Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Combined
Duration: 4 h
Exam Specifications: No books, no notes, no help sheet allowed. Calculators allowed
COURSE OVERVIEW
Week
1
2
3
4
5
6
Topics
Calculus
Calculus
Physics and measurements, vectors
Motion in one, two and three dimensions
Newtons laws of motions and applications
Work and energy
Conservation of energy
Universal gravitation
System of particles
10
Recommended
Readings
Objectives/
Application
12
Oscillations
13
Waves
14
Waves
15
Special Relativity
Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings
Hans C. Ohanian and John T. Markert, Physics for Engineers and Scientists Volume I, WW Norton and Co, 2007 .