PHYS0960-1

Duration

46h Th, 16h Pr, 24h Mon. WS

Number of credits

	Bachelor in veterinary medicine	7 crédits

Lecturer

Alain Seret, David Strivay

Coordinator

Alain Seret

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Physics for first-year university students in life sciences : geometric optics, particle mechanics, solid mechanics, thermal physics, fluid mechanics, mechanical waves.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

See french version

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Vectors, units, kinematics and Newton's laws.
Basic mathematics (algebra, analyse, elements of geometry and trigonometry) are also needed.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

This learning unit make use of different leraning and teaching activities such as face-to-face courses and practical works where students are teached to the solving of exercices and the use of experimental devices. Experiments are performed in live and video documents are projected during the courses. They are full part of the course contents.
Effective presence at the practical works is mandatory and will be checked.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

The theoretical course is face-to-face with active participation of the students for the solving of exercices. Much more active participation of the students is expected for the practical works.

Recommended or required readings

Textbooks.
- "Optique: première approche" by A. Seret (2015 or later). This book is distributed by Presses Universitaires de Liège (Liège, Belgium). A pdf file with short solutions to the exercices proposed in the book is also downloadable.
) The other parts of the lectures will be based on Physique by Benson (Edition De Boeck) and Physics of the Life Science de Newman (available via the ULg intranet on SpringerLink).
Exercice and (short) solutions manuals are also available at Presses Universitaires de Liège (Liège, Belgium). Some complementary exercices could be available from eCampus.
Laboratory manuals are downloadable from eCampus.

Assessment methods and criteria

All texts, all lectures and all examinations are in french. Please see the french version of this text.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks