General Physics A


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ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF GAZA – Department of Physics


GENERAL PHYSICS I – (PHYSA1301)


 


Semester: Summer Semester 2008/2009.


Total Credits: 3 credit hours.


 


Course Description: Units, Dimensions, Vectors, Linear motion, Freely falling bodies, Planner motion, Projectile motion, Circular motion, Relative motion, Newton’s laws of motion, Frictional forces, Centripetal force, Nonuniform circular motion, Newton’s law of Gravitation, Satellite motion, Work, Kinetic energy, Potential energy, conservative and nonconservative forces, Elastic and Inelastic collisions, Center of mass, Rotational motion, Rigid body, Angular quantities, Static Equilibrium, Oscillatory motion, Simple harmonic motion and examples, Fluid Mechanics.

           


Textbook: B. Saqqa and N. Farahat, General Physics I (Mechanics), 3rd edition.


Reference:


1-     R. Serway, Physics for Scientists and Engineers with modern physics, 6th edition.


2-     D. Halliday and R. Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics, 5th edition.


 


Grading System:


Homework & Quiz                20%


Midterm                                 20%


Final exam                              60%


 


Course Outlines:

 























































Lectures

Topics

Lectures

Topics


First week


Sections 1.1,1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6

Ninth week

Sections 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5


Second week


Sections 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

Tenth week

Sections  8.6, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3


Third week

Sections 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Eleventh week

Sections 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7


Fourth week

Sections 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

2/12/2008

Second Midterm Exam: Topics included are Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8


Fifth week

Sections 4.6, 5.1, 5.2

Tweleveth week


Sections 9.8, 9.9, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3


Sixth week


Sections  5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

Thirteenth week


Sections 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5


21/10/2008

First Midterm Exam: Topics included are Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Fourteenth week

Sections 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5


Seventh week

Sections 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

Fifteenth week

Make-up for the lost lectures


Eighth week

Sections 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.1

14/01/2009

Final Exam: All topics are included


 


 


Final exam will be held on Wednesday 2/9/2009 (9-11).

 


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Homework for General Physics A


 


 


Homework 1: (Ch. 1) – {1.5 – 1.14 – 1.20 – 1.21}


 Homework 2: (Ch. 2) – {2.4 – 2.9 – 2.15 – 1.17 – 2.18}


 Homework 3: (Ch. 3) – {3.4 – 3.7 – 3.13 – 3.14 – 3.16}


 Homework 4: (Ch. 4) – {4.4 – 4.10 – 4.13 – 4.14 – 4.20 – 4.27}


 Homework 5: (Ch. 5) – {5.8 – 5.11 – 5.14 – 5.15 – 5.16 – 5.17}


 Homework 6: (Ch. 6) – {6.4 – 6.9 – 6.11 – 6.16 – 6.20}


 Homework 7: (Ch. 7) – {7.7 – 7.8 – 7.12 – 7.14 – 7.17 – 7.20}


 Homework 8: (Ch. 8) – {8.6 – 8.7 – 8.11 – 8.14 – 8.15 – 8.16 – 8.20}


 Homework 9: (Ch. 9) – {9.5 – 9.12 – 9.15 – 9.20 – 9.22}


 Homework 10: (Ch. 10) – {10.8 – 10.9 – 10.14 – 10.15 – 10.25}


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