Duration
30h Th, 30h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in mathematics | 6 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
- Thermodynamics:
states of matter, temperature, pressure, thermal expansion, ideal gas, heat and work, first law of thermodynamics, entropy and second law, heat engines
- Optics:
geometric optics, reflection, refraction, lenses, wave optics, diffraction, interference
- Modern physics: phenomenology of black-body radiation, photoelectric effect, atom, spectral lines, Bohr's model, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schrödinger's equation, wave-particle duality
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course aims at teaching the phenomenological basis of thermal physics, of optics, and of moden physics in order to complete the physics education of the mathematics students. At the end of the course, the mathematics students will have encountered all the notions of physics that are taught in high schools.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The prerequisite of this course is to have followed succeeded the courses "Physique Générale I" and "Physique Générale II"
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Regular homework with exercises in relation to the course will have to be submitted. The exercises will be corrected, graded, and discussed in the exercise classes. The students will be invited there to present their solutions on the blackboard. Two practical sessions will be organized on topics in the field of optics.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
The course will be given face-to-face "ex cathedra" on the blackboard.
Recommended or required readings
R.A. Serway & J.W. Jewett: Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics (Thomson, 2008)
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment will be done - by a written examination (3 hours, 40% of the total grade), - by an oral examination (20 minutes, 40% of the total grade), - by an examination of the practical works (10% of the total grade) and - by evaluating the homework exercises (10% of the total grade).
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Peter Schlagheck Département de Physique Université de Liège IPNAS, building B15, office 0/125 Sart Tilman 4000 Liège Phone: 04 366 9043 Email: Peter.Schlagheck@ulg.ac.be http://www.pqs.ulg.ac.be
Items online
illustration of the second law with an oscillator in one dimension
These figures show the time evolution of an ensemble of trajectories within the phase space of a one-dimensional oscillator. The initial phase-space points of those trajectories are chosen such that they have the same total energy. The figures shown on the first page show the effect of a continuous variation of the oscillator's frequency taking place within 0 < t < 10. The figures on the second page show the effect of an abrupt variation of the frequency at t=0. The Hamiltonian of the system was chosen as H(r,p,t) = p^2/2 + [w(t)]^2 r^2 / 2 + a(t) r^4 / 4 with w=0.5, a=0 before and w=2, a=0.2 after the variation.