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Physics I
Courses Degree in Mathematics and Applications
Cod: 21049
Department: DCET
ECTS: 6
Scientific area: Physics
Total working hours: 156
Total contact time: 26

This course unit provides students with a framework for applying the concepts and techniques learned throughout its course, while granting him a background in the field of mechanics. This background will enable the student to better understand the world, its constituent parts and interactions between them.

Physics
Mechanics
Wave Mecanics

1.Using suitably the physics-mathematical language to structure and express opinions.
2.Applying physic concepts, principles and theories to problematic situations of the real world.
3.Searching, selecting and organising information to later turn into applicable knowledge to daily phenomena.
4.Adopting scientific strategies suitable for problem solving and decision making.
5.Performing activities in an autonomous, responsible and creative way, in a collaborative environment.

Physical quantities and measurements:Physics, scalar and vector physical quantities, dimensions of quantities
Mechanics I: dynamics of translation: Elementary kinematics and one-dimensional motion with constant speed and constant acceleration. Two-dimensional motion and its specific quantities. Newton’s laws of dynamics. Common forces. Applications of Newton’s laws to the study of static and dynamical phenomena. Energy, its forms and the work-energy theorems. Conservative and non-conservative systems. Energy diagrams. Linear momentum and its conservation.
Mechanics II: dynamics of rotation.  Kinematics of rotation. Torque as the cause of rotation and Newton’s laws applied to rotation. Static equilibrium and rigid body rolling. Angular momentum and its conservation. Newton’s law of universal gravitation. Planetary models and Kepler’s laws. Energy considerations in planetary and satellite motion.
Wave mechanics
Simple harmonic movement and mechanical waves. Sinusoidal travelling waves and stationary waves.

• David Halliday, Robert Resnick & Jearl Walker. Fundamentals of Physics, vols. 1 and 2. Ed. Wiley.
• Raymond Serway & John Jewett, Jr. Principles of Physics, vols. 1 and 2. Ed. Brooks Cole.
• Frederick Bueche & Eugene Hecht. Physics. Ed. McGraw-Hill.
• Notes written by the teacher, namely texts clarifying textbook issues that are less clear and worked out textbook exercises and examinations from previous years.

E-learning (fully online).

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).

Course unit pre-requisites:
• knowledge of vector, differential and integral calculus and linear algebra.