Classroom Hours Per Week: 4 hours lecture, 2 hours lab

 

Number of Credits:3 credits

 

Prerequisite: Physics 110 or Physics 118

 

Corequisites: Mathematics 114 and English 098

 

Geometrical and wave mechanics, waves, sound, thermometry, properties of matter and heat.

 

1) Optics (10 lectures) Geometrical optics, reflection & refraction, total internal reflection, polarization, mirrors, thin lenses, optical instruments & resolution, aberrations, interference, light as a wave, diffraction, Young's Experiment, coherence.

 

2) Heat (12 lectures) Temperature, expansion, calorimetry, kinetic theory, heat transfer: conduction, convection, & radiation, the laws of thermodynamics.

 

3) Oscillations (9 lectures) SHM, damped harmonic motion, forced vibrations, dynamics, resonance, combination of two harmonic motions.

 

4) Waves (15 lectures) Standing & travelling waves, superposition principle, wave equation, refraction, interference, diffraction sound waves, beats, Doppler Effect, shock waves & sonic boom.

 

5) Fluids (6 lectures) Pascal's Principle, Archimedes' Principle, Bernoulli's Equation, laminar flow in tubes.

 

Quizzes 5%
Midterm exams 30%
Laboratory 20%
Final Exam 45%

 

Paul A. Tipler, Physics For Scientists and Engineers, 6th Edition, Worth Publishers, 2008. Chapters of the textbook relevant to the above topics are 13 - 20 and 31 - 33 .

 

SFU: PHYS 1XX(3)
UBC: with COLU PHYS 120 = UBC PHYS 153(6)
UVic: PHYS 100 level (1.5 units)