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Physics Course Weekly Topics Overview

This document outlines a 15-week physics course covering topics in mechanics. It is divided into weekly sections covering units and measurement, motion, forces, energy, momentum, rotation, equilibrium, gravitation, periodic motion, and fluid mechanics. Readings are assigned from the specified reference book for each section. The course concludes with a 3-week examination period.

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Physics Course Weekly Topics Overview

This document outlines a 15-week physics course covering topics in mechanics. It is divided into weekly sections covering units and measurement, motion, forces, energy, momentum, rotation, equilibrium, gravitation, periodic motion, and fluid mechanics. Readings are assigned from the specified reference book for each section. The course concludes with a 3-week examination period.

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10 September - 16 September

1. Units, Physical Quantities


Basic and Derived quantities, units & standards, systems of units, conversion
of units, dimensional analysis.

Ref.1 pg 1-8
Week 1

17 September - 23 September

2. Motion in One and Two dimensions


Displacement, velocity and acceleration
Ref. 1 pg 36-47
Week 2

24 September - 30 September

Free-fall, Projectile.
Ref.1 pg 57-79
Week 3

1 October - 7 October

3. Newton's Laws of Motion


Force and interactions, Newton's 1st, 2nd and 3rd law of motion.
Ref.1 pg 107-125
Week 4

8 October - 14 October

4. Application of Newton's Laws

Particles in equilibrium, tension in a rope, lifts, frictional forces.


Ref.1 pg 136-157.
Week 5

15 October - 21 October

5. Work and Kinetic Energy


Work, Kinetic energy and Work-Energy theorem, Power.
Ref. 1 pg 181-201.
Week 6

22 October - 28 October

6. Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy


Gravitational potential energy, Conservative and non-conservative forces, Law of conservation
of energy.
Ref.1 pg 213-234.
Week 7

29 October - 4 November

7. Momentum, Impuls and Collisions


Momentum, impulse, Conservation of momentum, Elastic and inelastic collisions.
Ref.1 pg 247-265.
Week 8

5 November - 11 November

Mid Semester Holiday

5-9 Nov 2011

12 November - 18 November

10-13 Nov 2011 (Week 9)

8. Rotation of Rigid Bodies


Angular velocity and acceleration, Energy in rotational motion.
Ref.1 pg 285-300.
(Week 10)

19 November - 25 November

9. Dynamics of Rotational motion


Torque, angular acceleration, Work and Power in rotational motion, angular momentum,
conservation of angular momentum.
Ref. 1 pg 316-336.
Week 11

26 November - 2 December

10. Equilibrium and Elasticity


Equilibrium conditions, centre of gravity, Young's modulus, Shear modulus and Bulk modulus.
Ref.1. pg 354-369.
(Week 12)

3 December - 9 December

11. Gravitation
Newton's law of gravitation, g value, weight, Satellites, Kepler's law, Apparent weight,
weightlessness.
Ref.1 pg 383-404.
Week 13

10 December - 16 December

12. Periodic Motion


Oscillation, Simple harmonic motion, equations of SHM, Energy in SHM, Physical pendulum.
Ref.1 pg 419-439.
Week 14

17 December - 23 December

13. Fluid Mechanics


Density, relative density, pressure in a fluid, Pascal's law, measurement of pressure, buoyancy,
continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation, viscosity.
Ref.1 pg 456-475.
Week 15

24 December - 30 December

Study leave

31 December - 6 January

Examinations

7 January - 13 January

Examinations

14 January - 20 January

Examinations
Best wishes.

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