General Physics C
Instructor : Anas A. Alkanoa
Text book : Physics for scientist and engineers by Serway
Course contents
First Unit: Mechanical Unit.
Chapter 1 : Wave motion
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Types of waves
1.3 One-dimensional traveling waves
1.4 Super position and interference
1.5 The velocity of waves on strings
1.6 reflection and transmission of waves
1.7 Harmonic (sinusoidal) waves
1.8 energy transmitted by harmonic waves on strings
Chapter 2 : Sound waves
2.1 Velocity of sound waves
2.2 Harmonic sound waves
2.3 Energy and intensity of harmonic sound waves
2.4 Spherical and plane waves
2.5 The Doppler effect
Chapter 3 : Superposition and standing waves
3.1 Super position and interference of harmonic waves
3.2 Standing waves
3.3 Standing waves in a string fixed at both ends
3.4 Resonance
3.5 Standing waves in air columns
3.6 Beats : interference in time
Second Unit :Heat and Temperature
Chapter 4 : Temperature, Thermal expansion and ideal gases
4.1 Temperature and the zeroth law of thermodynamics
4.2 Thermometers and temperature scales
4.3 The Celsius and Fehrenheit temperature scales
4.4 Thermal expansion of solids and liquids
4.5 Macroscopic description of an ideal gas
Chapter 5 : heat and the first law of thermodynamics
5.1 Heat and thermal energy
5.2 Heat capacity and specific heat
5.3 Latent heat
5.4 Work and heat in thermodynamics processes
5.5 The first law of thermodynamics
5.6 Some applications of the first law
5.7 Heat transfer
Chapter 6 : The kinetic theory of gases
6.1 Molecular model for the pressure of an ideal gas
6.2 Molecular interpretation of temperature
6.3 heat capacity of an ideal gas
6.4 Adiabatic process for an ideal gas
6.5 Sound waves in gas
Third unit : Geometric Optics
Chapter 7 : The nature of light and the laws of geometric optics
7.1 The nature of light
7.2 Measurements of the speed of light
7.3 The ray approximation in geometric optics
7.4 Reflection and refraction
7.5 Total internal reflection
7.6 Despertion and prisms
Chapter 8 : Geometric Optics
8.1 Images formed by plane mirrors
8.2 Images formed by spherical mirrors
8.3 Thin lenses
Chapter 9 : Introduction to light waves
9.1 Conditions for interference
9.2 Youngs double-slit experiment
9.3 Intensity distribution of the double-slit interference pattern
9.4 Change in phase due to reflection
9.5 Interference in thin films ad Newton's rings
Chapter 10: Diffraction and Polarization
10.1 Introduction to diffraction
10.2 Single-slit diffraction
10.3 Resolution of single-slit diffraction
10.4 The diffraction grating
10.5 Polarization of light waves