Course Name
- PHYSICS 2 / APPLIED PHYSICS
Course Description
- Fluids; thermal expansion, thermal stress; heat transfer; calorimetry; waves; electrostatics; electricity; magnetism; optics; image formation by plane and curved mirrors; and image formation by thin lenses.
Prerequisites:
- Physics 1
Course Objectives
After completing this course, the student must be able to:
- 1. Describe the characteristics of fluids at rest and in motion;
- 2. Compute the buoyant force on an object immersed in a fluid;
- 3. Compute the pressure and flow speed of a fluid at any point in a flow tube;
- 4. Determine the amount of expansion of a given material in relation to temperature change;
- 5. Determine the change in temperature of a given amount of material that loses or gains;
- 6. Solve problems about the law of heat transfer;
- 7. Describe the three methods of heat transfer;
- 8. Discuss the properties of waves;
- 9. Describe the modes of vibration of strings and air columns;
- 10. Solve problems on Doppler Effect;
- 11. Compute the electric force between electric charges;
- 12. Compute the electric field due to electric charges;
- 13. Compute the electric potential due to a charge and electric potential energy of charges;
- 14. Define electric current, electric resistance and voltage;
- 15. Solve problems on resistance and cells in series and parallel;
- 16. State Kirchhoff’s rules and apply them in a given circuit;
- 17. Compute the magnetic field of a given current-carrying conductors;
- 18. Compute the magnetic torque on a current conductor in a magnetic field; and
- 19. Describe image formation by mirrors and lenses.
Applied Physics Course Outline
Suggested References
Cutnell, J.D. and K.W. Johnsons. Physics, 4th ed. Halliday, David, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker. Fundamentals of Physics, 5th ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996. Serway, Raymond A. and John W. Jewett Jr. Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 6th ed. 2004. Young, Hugh D. and Roger A. Freedman. University Physics, 10th ed. Addison Wesley.
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