Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences: Department of Physics
Physics 105: EE Section A; Fall 2014
Course Title: PH 105 Physics: Credit hrs: 4 (3 lecture hours + 3 -hours Lab per week; or total of six contact hours per week)
Prerequisites for this Course: F Sc./A-level Physics and Mathematics (calculus)
This Course is a prerequisite for: Physics 106- Electricity and Magnetism, Engineering
Mechanics- Static and Dynamics and Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
Instructors : Abdullah Sadiq, Ms. Anum Zaidi e- mail: asadiq@mail.au.edu.pk A. Sadiq: First Floor, Block A, North Wing e- mail: anum.zaidi@mail.au.edu.pk
Anum Zaidi: China Block next to A-Block
Text Book: Fundamentals of Physics, Preferably latest edition; Jearl Walker; John Wiley
Students may like to buy cheaper earlier editions from the market
Recommended Reference Material i. Weekly lecture notes with questions and problems assignments from Text Book and occasionally from the other material mentioned below; available on AU website.
MIT Physics 801 Video Lectures, MIT OpenCourseWare | Physics | 8.01 Physics I:
Classical Mechanics .
. ; Videos of these lectures can also be accessed through
AU Intra-net. The sequence of class lectures corresponds to MIT Physics 8.01. ii. The Feynman Lectures on Physics,
MAINLY MECHANICS
RADIATION AND HEAT
iii.
UC Berkeley Physics 10 :-
‘Physics for Future Presidents:
Physics 10, 001 -
Spring 2006 - YouTube iv. American Institute of Physics Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations; Videos of these demonstration can be accessed through AU Intra-net v. Yale Physics 200: Fundamentals of Physics Video Lectures; view class sessions >> iv. Free physics Animations - Learnerstv.com
UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: Physics 10 :
Course Outline: Physical quantities and their measurement, Units, least count, significant figures, dimensions and dimensional analysis;
Vectors and scalar and vector algebra; scalar and vector product
Motion in one dimension n, distance and displacement, average speed, instantaneous speed, average acceleration, instantaneous acceleration
Motion in two dimensions; Motion with uniform acceleration, free fall, projectile motion;
Circular motion, angular velocity, time period; angular acceleration; centripetal acceleration ,
Force and m otion; Newton’s Laws of Motion; Push and Pull forces, Friction, Gravitation,
Elastic and Contact Forces; Applications of Newton’s laws; Free Body Diagram
Work and Energy; Kinetic and Potential energy; Conservation of Energy, Conservation of
Linear Momentum; Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
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Oscillations; Simple Harmonic Motion, Amplitude, frequency and Time Period
Rigid Body Motion; Stable and Unstable Equilibrium; Center of Mass and Center of gravity;
Translation and Rotation Motion; Moment of Inertia, Torque; Rolling Motion; Rotational
Energy;
Weekly Lecture Plan:
Week
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Topic Background readings/viewings
Introductory remarks;
Measurements; Basic and derived physical quantities; Units,
Least count; Significant figure; Measurement, errors;
Dimensional analysis
Examples
Kinematics: Motion in one dimension; Displacement and distance; Average and instantaneous velocity and speed;
Motion with constant speed and constant acceleration
Examples
Vectors & Scalars; Vector addition (geometrical) ; Vector components, Unit vector, Addition of vectors by components;
Vector multiplication, Scalar and vector product and their physical significance
Examples
Motion in two dimensions; Displacement and distance;
Velocity and speed; Uniform and non-uniform velocity and acceleration; Motion with constant acceleration; Projectile motion;
Examples
Motion with constant speed; Uniform circular motion;
Centripetal Force
Non-uniform circular Motion: Simple Pendulum
Examples
Force and Motion: Newton 1 st Laws of Motion: Uniform
Velocity;
Newton’s second law and its applications; Contact forces,
Motion on an inclined plane; Atwood machine
Examples
Chapter 1
OCW*; Course Introduction: Go to this video
OCW 1: Units, Dimensions, and Scaling Arguments:
Go to this video
Video Disc:1,Demo 1.01
Powers of Ten ™ (1977), Scale of the Universe http://htwins.net/scale2/
Chapter 2
OCW 2: Introduction to Kinematics: Go to this video
Video Disc:1, Demo 1.08, 1.011
Chapter 3
OCW 3: Vectors: Go to this video
Video Disc:1, Demo 1.02 - 1.07
Video Disc:4, Demo 4.01
Chapter 4
OCW 4: The Motion of Projectiles: Go to this video
Video Disc:2, Demo 2.01 – 2.06
Video Disc:5, Demo 5.11
OCW 5: Uniform Circular Motion: Go to this video
Video Disc:5, Demo 5.17,5.19,5.21,5.25
Conservative Forces: Gravity and Universal Law of
Gravitation; Escape Velocity
Hooks Law Simple Harmonic Motion; Free oscillations
Examples
Chapter 5
CW 6: Newton's First, Second, and Third
Laws : Go to this video
7: Weight, Perceived Gravity, and Weightlessness: Go to this video
Video Disc3, Demo 3.01 – 3.06
Video Disc4, Demo 4.02 – 4.06
Video Disc6, Demo 6.04 – 6.06
OCW10: Hook’s Law, Simple Harmonic oscillator, Go to this video
Video Disc 8: Demo 8.01,8.10 – 8.12,8.23,
OCW 13: Equation of Motion for Simple Harmonic
Oscillators, Go to this video
OCW 14: Orbits and Escape Velocity, Go to this video
Chapter 6 . Non-conservative Forces; Friction and Drag Forces
Motion of a rough horizontal table; Motion on a rough inclined plane; Air Drag; Terminal velocity; Free damped Oscillations
Examples
OCW 8: Frictional Forces;
Video Disc: Demo
Go to this video
OCW 12: Resistive Forces, Go to this video
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Mid Term Review
10 Work, energy, kinetic energy; Work done by gravitational force; Work done by spring force; Power; Examples
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Mechanical energy and its conservation; Translation and rotation; rotational variables, angular displacement, angular velocity and angular acceleration, Problems
Oscillations revisited; Physical Pendulum; Damped SHM;
Forced oscillations and Resonance,
Examples
Motion of two or more bodies, Newton’s 2rd law of motion,
Conservation of linear momentum, Center of mass and; Two body elastic and inelastic collisions
Examples
Rigid body and its rotational motion about a fixed axis ::
Moment of inertia and its dependence on axis of rotation;
Moment of inertia of some simple objects; Parallel and perpendicular axis theorems;
Examples
Ang ular Momentum, Torque; Newton’s second law for rotation,
Physical Pendulum
Examples
Chapter 7
OCW 11: Work, Energy, and Universal Gravitation, Go to this video
Video Disc3: Demo 3.07 – 3.11
Chapter 8
Video Disc3: Demo 3.12 – 3.15
Video Disc 8: Demo 8.10 – 8.21,8.23
Video Disc 9: Demo 9.01,9.02
Chapter 9
OCW 15: Momentum and its Conservation, Go to this video
OCW 16: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions, Go to this video
Video Disc:5 Demo 5.01 – 5.05 17:
OCW Momentum of Individual Objects, Go to this video
Video Disc:3 Demo 3.19 – 3.26
Chapter 10
OCW 19: Rotating Rigid Bodies, Inertia, and Axis
Theorems, Go to this video
Video Disc:5 Demo 5.12 – 5.26
Chapter 11
OCW 20: Angular Momentum, Go to this video
Video Disc 7: Demo 7.01,7.02,7.04
– 7.06,7.09,7.10
OCW 21: Torque, Go to this video
Video Disc 7: Demo 7.03
OCW 24: Rolling Motion, Gyroscopes, Go to this video
Video Disc 7: Demo 7.07,7.08,7.11,
15
Rolling Motion
Examples
16 End of term Review
Students are also encouraged to watch some of the following lecture.
Yale Physics 200: 1. Course Introduction and Newtonian Mechanics 2. Vectors in Multiple Dimensions 3. Newton's
Laws of Motion 4. Newton's Laws (cont.) and Inclined Planes 5. Work-Energy Theorem and Law of Conservation of
Energy 6. Law of Conservation of Energy in Higher Dimensions 7. Kepler's Laws 8. Dynamics of a Multiple-Body
System and Law of Conservation of Momentum 9. Rotations, Part I: Dynamics of Rigid Bodies 10. Rotations, Part II:
Parallel Axis Theorem 11. Torque Midterm Exam 12. Introduction to Relativity 13. Lorentz Transformation 14.
Introduction to the Four-Vector 15. Four-Vector in Relativity 16. The Taylor Series and Other Mathematical
Concepts 17. Simple Harmonic Motion 18. Simple Harmonic Motion (cont.) and Introduction to Waves 19. Waves
20. Fluid Dynamics and Statics and Bernoulli's Equation 21. Thermodynamics 22. The Boltzmann Constant and
First Law of Thermodynamics 23. The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Carnot's Engine 24. The Second Law of Thermodynamics (cont.) and Entropy
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