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Spring 2025
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| PH 203 - General Physics |
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Associated Term:
Spring 2025
Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: 1. Understand charge and analyze situations in terms of how charge moves 2. Understand and apply Coulomb’s Law to situations using FBDs and Newton’s 2nd Law 3. Understand, construct and evaluate energy bar charts for situations involving static electricity 4. Understand and apply electric fields and voltage fields to analyze situations 5. Understand and apply the concepts of voltage, current resistance and power in electrical circuits 6. Analyze circuits in terms of series and parallel connections 7. Understand and apply Kirchoff’s Laws 8. Understand magnetic fields and how they are created 9. Determine magnetic fields using Ampere’s Law for special cases 10. Understand and apply the Lorentz force law for moving charges and currents 11. Understand and apply Faraday’s Law and Lenz’s Law to physical situations 12. Understand and explain the origins of Faraday’s Law 13. Understand Einstein’s postulates and the reasons for proposing them 14. Analyze situations using Einstein’s postulates 15. Understand and apply the concepts of time dilation and length contraction 16. Understand, construct and evaluate spacetime diagrams from different frames of reference 17. Understand and apply Einstein’s energy and momentum equations 18. Understand and explain sources of fields from different reference frames 19. Understand the historical origins of Quantum Mechanics 20. Apply ideas of wave mechanics to simple situations 21. Choose coordinate systems and determine components of vectors 22. Extract information from representations 23. Construct new representations from given ones 24. Translate from one representation to another 25. Evaluate consistency of representations and modify appropriately 26. Consider different systems, coordinate systems, reference frames and methods of analysis to arrive at a solution 27. Evaluate units in an equation 28. Perform dimensional analysis on an unfamiliar system 29. Identify assumptions 30. Evaluate special cases for solving and checking problems 31. Use solutions to make predictions 32. Check solutions based on units, reasonable fit to the question 33. Use multiple representations to determine solutions 34. Use proportional reasoning to solve problems 35. Design and conduct an observational experiment: 36. Propose hypotheses for the observations 37. Design and conduct a testing experiment 38. Identify the hypotheses to be tested 39. Design a reliable experiment that tests the hypothesis 40. Distinguish between a hypothesis and a prediction 41. Make a reasonable prediction based on a hypothesis 42. Identify the assumptions made in making the prediction 43. Determine specific ways in which assumptions might affect the prediction 44. Decide whether the prediction and the outcome agree/disagree 45. *Make a reasonable judgment about the hypothesis 46. *Revise hypotheses when necessary 47. Design and conduct an application experiment 48. Identify the problem to be solved 49. Design a reliable experiment that solves the problem 50. Use available equipment to make measurements 51. Make judgments about the results of the experiment 52. Evaluate the results by means of an independent method 53. Identify the shortcomings in an experimental design and suggest specific improvements 54. Choose a productive mathematical procedure for solving the experimental problem 55. Identify assumptions made in using the mathematical procedure 56. Identify relevant assumptions 57. Determine specific ways in which assumptions might affect the results 58. Propose and evaluate potential experiments 59. Evaluate assumptions in an experimental set up 60. Identify and estimate measurement errors in an experiment Required Materials: Technical Requirements: |
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