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This course offers a comprehensive exploration of basic physics concepts, focusing on their practical applications and cultural significance. Students will delve into topics such as motion, newton's laws, work, energy, thermal physics, and thermodynamics. The course combines lectures, class discussions, problem sets, presentations, laboratory activities, and experiments, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving skills and real-world applications. Students will also visit national universities and industrial facilities, conducting interviews with local physicists and mexican students. The course is taught in english and is worth 4.00 u.s. Semester credits with 60.00 contact hours.
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Course title: General Physics I (Lab Course) Course code: (GI) PHYS 1401 MEME Programs offering course: Yucatan Open Campus Block, Summer STEM and Society Open Campus Track: STEM and Society Language of instruction: English U.S. semester credits: 4. Contact hours: 60. Term: Summer Block II 2023 Course Description Students will study basic concepts of physics while gaining a deeper understanding of how the world around them is influenced and governed by Physics. They will explore Physics principles in class and laboratory, as well as the culture side of Physics: its history and the cultural significance of its principles, laws, recent developments, and continuing impacts on society. Topics covered include: motion, Newton’s laws, work, energy, thermal physics and thermodynamics. Applications will include how physics informs our understanding of ourselves, our physical world and its impact on society and culture. Learning Objectives By completing this course, students will: Make proper measurements, understand units and their conversions, and how to quantify uncertainty in measurements. Use the scientific method as a basis of inquiry, including observation, hypothesis testing, data collection, analysis and drawing reasonable conclusions. Develop problem-solving skills by approaching physical phenomena mathematically as well as intuitively. Explain and Predict Motion: Kinematics in one and two dimensions, Dynamics, Force, Laws of Motion, Circular Motion, Gravitation, Kepler’s Laws, Fundamental Forces, Rotational Motion, Torque and Angular Momentum. Describe and Measure Energy, including Work, Kinetic, Potential and Preservation of Energy, Power. Characterize Momentum: Linear momentum, momentum and force, conservation of momentum, collision and impulse, center of mass. Understand Heat and Its Impacts on Energy and Matter: Temperature and Kinetics, Expansion, Gas Laws, Specific Heat, Latent Heat and Heat Transfer. Know and follow proper laboratory safety practices. Collect and report data effectively: Use correct laboratory notebook skills, spreadsheets, graphing software and regression analysis. Assess how Physics impacts their lives and the lives of local people. Course Prerequisites High School Physics and High School Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry or equivalents Methods of Instruction The course will be taught using lectures, class discussions, lecture activities, reading assignments, problem sets, presentations, laboratory activities and experiments. In addition, students will visit national universities and industrial facilities, conducting interviews with local physicists and Mexican students. Students will work individually and in groups in laboratory and on assigned problem sets. Students are expected to read portions of the textbook before lectures and review laboratory manual instructions before labs. Students will work in groups to present current applications of physics in their lives and in the lives of those in the local community. Students should take full advantage of generous online resources associated with the texts. Assessment and Final Grade
In groups, students will familiarize themselves with pendulum angle, Mass, Length and Damping. Further, students will then study the addition and resolution of vectors and Newton’s 1st Law of Motion, using a vector force table (Experiment 6 in lab manual). There will be a pre-lab quiz, post-lab notebook check and full laboratory report due the following lab period. Class: 2.2 Two-Dimensional Kinematics Students will explore kinematics in two dimensions, including graphic and analytic approaches to vector addition and subtraction, projectile motion and addition of velocities. Students will observe that motion in two dimensions has horizontal and vertical components. They will learn rules to add and subtract vectors using analytical methods. Students will identify and explain properties of a projectile, such as acceleration due to gravity, range, maximum height and trajectory. Readings and Problem Sets : Chapter 3 Two-Dimensional Kinematics and assigned problems Lab 2.2 Uniformly Accelerated Motion (Experiment 5 in lab manual). Students will us a linear air track and wooden blocks to measure how the velocity and displacement of objects with a uniform or constant acceleration change with time. There will be a pre-lab quiz, post-lab notebook check and full laboratory report due the following lab period. Week 3 Class: 3.1 Dynamics: Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion Students will understand and be able to define force, mass and inertia. They will then apply these concepts to Newton’s Laws of Motion: 1st Inertia, 2nd Concept of a System and 3rd Symmetry in Forces. They will study normal, tension and other forces. They will explore applications of Newton’s Laws of Motion and apply problem-solving strategies to them. They will explore how four basic distinct forces account for all known phenomena: gravitational, electromagnetic, weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force. Readings and Problem Sets : Chapter 4 Dynamics: Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion and assigned problems Lab 3.1 Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion: The Atwood Machine (Experiment 7). Students will vary the net (weight) force on an object and the total mass of the system to show the resulting accelerations can be experimentally determined from distance and time measurements. Students can then compare these time measurements with predictions from Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion. There will be a pre-lab quiz, post-lab notebook check and full laboratory report due the following lab period. Class: 3.2 Further Applications of Newton’s Laws: Friction, Drag and Elasticity Students will discuss the general characteristics of friction, describe types of friction and calculate the magnitude of static and kinetic friction. They will also define Drag Force, learn to express it mathematically and discuss applications. Students will then state and explain Hooke’s Law, use graphical representations for deformation and applied force, explain three types of deformations (changes in length, sideways shear and changes in volume), describe with examples the young’s modulus, shear modulus and bulk modulus, and determine the change in length given mass, length and radius. Readings : Chapter 5 Further Applications of Newton’s Laws and assigned problems; Wilczek, F.,
Class: 3.3 Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation Students will explore rotation angle and angular velocity by defining arc length, rotation angle, radius of curvature and angular velocity. They will also describe centripetal acceleration and centripetal force, applying these principles to calculate ideal speed and angle of a car turn. Students will then discuss inertial vs. non-inertial frames of reference and how they apply to the Coriolis force. They will explain Earth’s gravity, the gravitational effects of the Moon and weightlessness in space in the context of Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation. They will apply these concepts to planetary motion and derive Kepler’s Third Law of Circular Orbits. Readings and Problem Sets : Chapter 6 Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation, and assigned problems Week 4 Class: 4.1 Work, Energy and Energy Resources Students will understand work in a scientific context: the interaction of displacement and force, and whether work is positive, negative or neutral. They will explain work as a transfer of energy and net work as the result of net force, by applying the work-energy theorem. They will extend their concept of work to gravitational potential energy. This will form their understanding of conservative force, potential energy and mechanical energy. Students will move onto nonconservative forces and explore how they affect mechanical energy. Power will be defined as changes in energy over time. Students will apply physical concepts of power to the human body and world energy use. Readings and Problem Sets : Chapter 7 Work, Energy and Energy Resources and assigned problems. Lab 4.1 Centripetal Force (Experiment 10) and Friction (Experiment 11) Students will study centripetal force in the laboratory using objects in uniform circular motion. After performing the experiment and analyzing data, students will explain why a centripetal force is necessary for circular motion, describe how the magnitude of centripetal force for uniform circular motion may be determined from motional parameters and summarize what determines the magnitude of centripetal force necessary to maintain constant uniform motion. For friction, students will use solid objects to understand basic concepts of friction. Students will experimentally determine coefficients of friction and tell why the normal reaction force of a surface on an object is used to determine frictional force. There will be a pre-lab quiz, post-lab notebook check and full laboratory report due the following lab period. Class: 4.2 Linear Momentum and Collisions Students will define linear momentum, explain the relationship between momentum and force, state Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion in terms of momentum and calculate momentum given mass and velocity. They will use these concepts to define impulse, describe conservation of momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions and to state Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion. They will apply these concepts to everyday life, including collisions in sports. Readings and Problem Sets : Chapter 8 Linear Momentum and Collisions, and assigned problems Lab 4.2 Conservation of Linear Momentum (Experiment 8 in lab manual). Students will use an air track and collision cars to measure how the total linear momentum of a system will be the same after collision as before. A prelab quiz and post-lab notebook check will be graded. Class: 4.3 Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum Students will describe uniform and non-uniform circular motion, calculating angular acceleration and noting the link between linear and angular acceleration. They will observe the kinematics of rotational motion and derive rotational kinematic equations. They will explore the relationship between force, mass and acceleration, force and torque, mass and moment of inertia, and angular and linear acceleration. Readings and Problem Sets : Chapter 10 Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum, and assigned
Students will find that solids generally increase in size with temperature, and that expansion depends on the internal structure of the object. Heating and cooling objects in this laboratory will allow students to tell how the thermal coefficient of linear expansion describes the relationship between expansion and temperature, explain how the linear thermal coefficient is measured and describe how this relationship can be applied to actual situation. There will be a pre-lab quiz, post- lab notebook check and full laboratory report due the following lab period. The lab will conclude with a thorough laboratory clean up. Class: 6.2 Thermodynamics Students will describe the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, apply it to everyday situations and calculate changes in the internal energy of a system. They will then move onto the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, using it to calculate efficiency and carbon dioxide emission of a coal fueled electrical plant and a nuclear reactor. They will then explore applications of thermodynamics to heat pumps and refrigerators. Students will then use the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics to entropy with processes both reversible and not. They will calculate the increasing disorder of a system and apply statistical probabilities to identify possibilities of entropy. Readings and Problem Sets : Chapter 15 Thermodynamics, and assigned problems Lab 6.2 Group Presentations of Physics in Daily Life (with demonstration experiment) Using principles of Physics, a thorough literature search online and personal interviews with local people, groups will present how on aspect of Physics impacts their lives and the lives of local people. This will include a Physics demonstration of some kind. Students will be given a group and individual grade on their presentation. Class: 6.3 Comprehensive Review, Problem Set Workshop and Final Exam Course Materials Readings Textbooks Physics, 2015 Edition by Urone, P.P. et al. OpenStax College https://openstax.org/details/college-physics Physics Laboratory Experiments, Eighth Edition. 2014. J.D. Wilson and C.A. Hernández-Hall, Cengage Learning: Stamford, CT Readings Burko, L.M., 2018. Unveiling nonsense to save physics. The Physics Teacher, 56(1), pp.4-4. Cronjé, F., 2013. Science, Technology and Society. South African Review of Sociology, 44(1), pp.180-198. Czerski, H. 2018. Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life. W.W. Norton & Company. Hermans, J and W. Drenckhan. 2013. Physics in Daily Life. Gallimard, Ltd. Scherr, R.E. and Robertson, A.D., 2017. Unveiling Privilege to Broaden Participation. The Physics Teacher, 55(7), pp.394-397. Wilczek, F., 2004. Whence the force of F= ma? I: culture shock. Physics Today, 57(10), pp.11-12. Online Resources Helen Czerrsi, The fascinating physics of everyday life, TED TALKS https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_czerski_fun_home_experiments_that_teach_you_physics Physics Student Resources. 2018. Openstax. Rice University https://openstax.org/details/books/college- physics#student-resources-section