Physics 1 : Mechanics

Duration

25h Th, 20h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Hervé Caps

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

The lecture is divided into several chapters which are arbitrarily ordered. It is misleading to believe that physics is an assembly of small independent parts. The subdivision of the lecture is mainly related to the cutting of the lectures over the academic calendar.
Outline - Introduction to physical dimensions and variables - 1D motion - 2D-3D motions - Force - Work done by a force, Energy - Momentum and collisions - Rotations - Angular momentum - Static equilibrium - Gravitation - Oscillations - Optics (Archi.)

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The aim of the lectures is to give the students a basic knowledge on physical mechanics. Focus is put on an intuitive and phenomenological presentation in order to develop some physical sense. This organisation is supposed to facilitate the access to more complete formalism during the following years of studies.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Elementary skills on mathematics and physics at the level of secondary school.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Series of exercices are organized. These activities take place with smaller groups for encouraging the inter-activity.

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

Lectures are jointly given to students in engineers and architecture. A total of 20h (25h. archi). of theoretical lectures and 20h (25h archi.) of exercicesis planned. Theoretical lectures are ex cathedra and mainly concern the explanation of fundamental concepts. During training meetings, this theoretical knowledge is applied. In both types of lessons, a special care is taken for emphasizing the role played by the different concepts in the work of engineers. Lectures are organized during the first half of the academic year.

Recommended or required readings

e.g. Physics for Engineers and Scientists by Serway and Jewett. PDF files of the different slides are available at the AEES.

Assessment methods and criteria

Written evaluation on January. Theoretical concepts (50% of the final note) and exercices (50%) are asked.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Hervé CAPS
GRASP-Optofluidics
Departement de Physique, Bât. B5a
Bureau 3/52
Tél. 04/ 366 37 23
Fax. 04/366 28 13
Herve.Caps@ulg.ac.be