| Prerequisites and co-requisites |
None |
| Language of instruction |
English |
| Type |
Required |
| Level of Course |
Bachelor's |
| Lecturer |
Asst. Prof. Çağdaş ALLAHVERDİ |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to Face |
| Suggested Subject |
None |
| Professional practise ( internship ) |
None |
| Objectives of the Course |
The course’s objective is to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of physics and their practical applications, and to provide students with a foundation to build upon in their future studies. The course introduces to non-major students physical quantities and measurements, mechanical motion, force, work and energy, and oscillations and waves. |
| Contents of the Course |
The topics covered in this course include:
• quantitative approach, measurements, quantities, and units;
• vectors and manipulations with vectors;
• kinematics of mechanical motion and simplest motions;
• dynamics of mechanical motion, Newton’s laws, forces, momentum, solving motion using forces;
• rotational motion, torque and angular momentum, rotational and rolling motion of solid bodies;
• conservation of energy, linear, and angular momentum, significance and application of conservation laws in physics;
• simple harmonic oscillations, forced oscillations and resonance, simple wave motion, basic properties of waves. |
| # |
Learning Outcomes |
| 1 |
To be able to understand Newton's Laws |
| 2 |
To be able to use Newton's Laws for solving physics and engineering problems |
| 3 |
To be able to use Work, Energy and Momentum conservation laws. |
| 4 |
Ability to devise, select, and use modern techniques and tools needed for engineering practice; ability to employ information technologies effectively. |
| 5 |
Ability to design and conduct experiments, gather data, analyze and interpret results for investigating engineering problems. |
| 6 |
Ability to work efficiently in intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams; ability to work individually. |
| # |
Subjects |
Teaching Methods and Technics |
| 1 |
Introduction to Quantitative approach, Physical quantities and Vectors. |
Lecturing |
| 2 |
Fundamental vector operations. Vector representation in component and unit-vector form. Scalar and vectoral product of vectors. |
Lecturing |
| 3 |
Mechanical motion and its description; position, speed, and acceleration. Average and instantaneous quantities and their calculations. |
Lecturing |
| 4 |
Fundamental mechanical motions; equations of motion, constant accelerated motion, free fall, projectile motion, circular motion. |
Lecturing |
| 5 |
Causes of mechanical motion. Inertial motion and inertial reference frames. Newton’s laws, mechanical forces, momentum, gravity, weight, normal force, and friction. Homestudy: Relativity. |
Lecturing |
| 6 |
Properties of the force of friction; static, kinetic, and rolling friction. Properties of elastic deformation forces; tension: longitudinal, transversal, and shear deformations, elastic modules. Properties of non-inertial forces; linear, centrifugal, and Coriolis forces. |
Lecturing |
| 7 |
Midterm Exam |
Exam |
| 8 |
Solving motion of bodies using forces; free-body diagrams. For example, motion of box on inclined surface, motion of two stacked boxes, etc. Motion of celestial bodies; Newton's law of universal gravitation. Kepler's laws. |
Lecturing |
| 9 |
Force and work, work-energy theorem, kinetic energy. For example, work of friction force etc. Conservative forces. Conservation laws in mechanics; conservation of mechanical energy, conservation of mechanical momentum. |
Lecturing |
| 10 |
Applications of work and energy. For example, metal ball falling onto a spring, two-body collisions in 2D. Rotational motion; axis of rotation, angular position, radian measure, angular speed, and angular acceleration. Relation between linear and angular quantities; tangential and normal speed, tangential and normal acceleration. |
Lecturing |
| 11 |
Reasons for change of rotational motion, forces and torque. 2nd Newton’s law for rotation, moment of inertia of a body. Example, rotating disk under torque. Parallel axis theorem. Kinetic energy of rotation. Angular momentum and conservation of angular momentum. |
Lecturing |
| 12 |
Rolling motion; rolling with slipping and without slipping, role of the friction force in rolling. Example, rolling of a ball down inclined plane. Method of fixed axis; example for rolling of a ball. Energy of a rolling object and energy conservation. Linear and rotational energy in rolling. |
Lecturing |
| 13 |
Simple oscillatory motion; amplitude, frequency, period, and phase. Example motion of physical pendulum. Forced oscillations and resonance. Example forced oscillations of a pendulum. |
Lecturing |
| 14 |
Simple wave motion; transversal and longitudinal waves, sinusoidal waves, amplitude, frequency, period, wave-number, wave-length, and phase of sinusoidal waves. Wave-front and wave-front propagation, speed of wave. Superposition principle and interference of waves; constructive and destructive interference. Interference from two spherical sources and interference pattern. |
Lecturing |
| 15 |
Review |
Lecturing |
| 16 |
Final Exam |
Exam |
| # |
Material / Resources |
Information About Resources |
Reference / Recommended Resources |
| 1 |
H.D. Young, R.A. Freedman and A.L. Ford, Sears and Zemansk's University Physics with Modern Physics Technology Update, 13th Edition, ISBN 10: 0-321-89470-7, 2014 |
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| 2 |
Raymond A. Serway, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 4th edition, Saunders College Pub, 1996 |
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| 3 |
D. Halliday, R. Resnick, J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics Extended, 9th Edition, Wiley, 2009
ISBN-10: 0-321-64363-1, 2010. |
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Learning Outcomes |
Program Outcomes |
Method of Assessment |
| 1 |
To be able to understand Newton's Laws |
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| 2 |
To be able to use Newton's Laws for solving physics and engineering problems |
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| 3 |
To be able to use Work, Energy and Momentum conservation laws. |
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| 4 |
Ability to devise, select, and use modern techniques and tools needed for engineering practice; ability to employ information technologies effectively. |
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| 5 |
Ability to design and conduct experiments, gather data, analyze and interpret results for investigating engineering problems. |
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| 6 |
Ability to work efficiently in intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams; ability to work individually. |
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