Physics 1

• Apply the kinematic concepts position, velocity, and acceleration, and recognize important types of motion such as projectile motion and circular motion.
• Identify forces and sketch free body diagrams for simple mechanical systems consisting of particles.
• Apply Newton’s laws to simple mechanical systems consisting of particles.
• Compute the work done by a force and apply the work-energy theorem to simple mechanical systems.
• Formulate the principle of conservation of mechanical energy and apply this principle to simple mechanical systems.
• Compute electrostatic forces, fields, and potentials in connection with simple and/or symmetric charge distributions.
• Analyse transport of particles and rigid bodies.
• Analyse centrifuges including the determination of the effective field of gravity.
• Describe the principles behind mass spectoscopy and compute particle trajectories in electric and magnetic fields.
• Analyse a problem, plan and carry out a solution, and control the results.

Kinematics, velocity, acceleration,and relative motion. Newton’s law of motion. Work, kinetic and potential energy. Electrical charge and field. Magnetic fields and forces.

• 36 – 49 (Wed 8-12)

Classroom lectures and tutorials.