Course Number: SC240
Course Title: Introduction to Physics
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Specific
Students should be able to:
1. Solve problems and engage in experiments
involving mechanics including vectors, displacement, motion, momentum, force
angular
displacement, energy, work, and power.
2. Solve problems, define concepts, and engage
in experiments involving thermal energy, hear, heat transfer, the gas laws,
and
thermodynamics.
3. Perform experiments and define concepts in
the field of optics including reflection, refraction, diffraction, focal
length, images,
polarization; describe the experiments that show the behavior
of light as a wave and a photon.
4. Make calculations of frequency, wavelength,
and the velocity of waves, solve sound problems, define Doppler and
interference
effects.
5. Describe magnetism and draw lines of force
diagrams.
6. Solve problems involving electrical fields,
Ohm's law, resistance, circuits including capacitance and inductances in
series and
parallel, Kirchoff's law, perform experiments with a whet stone
bridge.
7. Describe the structure of the atom, electron
orbits, nucleus, chain reactions, fission, fusion, and relativity.
8. Define the different kinds of fundamental
forces.