Program Physics

PHYSICS

FIRST TWO YEARS

PURPOSE

To contribute to the awareness of the importance of the basic knowledge of the study of the Discipline in understanding the complex reality that surrounds us
To promote the development of learning skills within the specific discipline
Promote intuitive and logical faculties
To exercise inductive and deductive reasoning

GOALS
To facilitate students in exploring the world around them, to observe its phenomena and understand the value of knowledge of the natural world and that of human activities, as an integral part of their overall education.

I YEAR

MAIN TOPICS COVERED.
- Concept of measurement and its approximation.
- Systems of units of measurement.
- Error on measurement.
- Main instruments and techniques of measurement.
- Direct measurements of a physical quantity.
- mass and weight
- density and specific gravity
- scalar and vector quantities
- elasticity
- equilibrium of bodies and simple machines
- inclined plane
- statics of fluids, fluid laws
- heat and temperature
- law of calorimetry
- thermal expansion
- physical states of matter

II YEAR

MAIN TOPICS COVERED
- gas laws and transformations
- work, power, energy
- potential and kinetic energy
- principle of conservation of energy, energy transformations
- electrostatics, electric field, potential
- electric current, electric circuits
- effects of electric current
- magnetism, magnetic field
- effects of electric current
- electromagnetism: electromagnetic induction
- production of electrical energy
- electromagnetic waves
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