Heat and Waves

PHYS1102 General Physics 2

4 hours One requisite

1 Oscillations / Simple Harmonic Motion / The Force Law for Simple Harmonic Motion / Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion / An Angular Simple Harmonic Oscillator / Pendulums / Simple Harmonic Motion and Uniform Circular Motion / Damped Simple Harmonic Motion / Forced Oscillations and Resonance

2 Waves-I / Types of Waves / Transverse and Longitudinal Waves / Wavelength and Frequency / The Speed of a Traveling Wave / Wave Speed on a Stretched String / Energy and Power of a Wave Traveling Along a String / The Wave Equation / The Principle of Superposition for Waves / Interference of Waves / Phasors / Standing Waves / Standing Waves and Resonance

3 Waves-II / Sound Waves / The Speed of Sound / Traveling Sound Waves / Interference / Intensity and Sound Level / Sources of Musical Sound / Beats / The Doppler Effect / Supersonic Speeds, Shock Waves

4 Temperature, Heat, and First Law of Thermodynamics / Temperature / The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics / Measuring Temperature / The Celsius and Fahrenheit Scales / Thermal Expansion / Temperature and Heat / The Absorption of Heat by Solids and Liquids / A Closer Look at Heat and Work / The First Law of Thermodynamics / Some Special Cases of First Law of Thermodynamics / Heat Transfer Mechanisms / Systems with Varying Mass: a Rocket

5 The Kinetic Theory of Gases / Avogadro’s Number / Ideal Gases / Pressure, Temperature, and rms Speed / Translational Kinetic Energy / Mean Free Path / The Distribution of Molecular Speeds / The Molar Specific Heats of an Ideal Gas / Degrees of Freedom and Molar Specific Heats / The Adiabatic Expansion of an Ideal Gas

6 Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics / Entropy / Entropy in the Real World: Engines / Refrigerators and Real Engines / A Statistical View of Entropy

7 Interference / Light As a Wave / Young’s Interference Experiment / Interference and Double-Slit Intensity / Interference from Thin Films / Michelson’s Interferometer

8 Diffraction / Single-Slit Diffraction / Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction / Diffraction By a Circular Aperture / Diffraction By a Double Slit / Diffraction Gratings / Gratings: Dispersion and Resolving Power / X-Ray Diffraction

9 Practical Part: / Students will conduct various experiments in the practical part of the course. Each student will perform the experiment, collect data, extract results, and prepare a written report every week

1.1 Mapped to: K1

Define the physical properties of vibration and waves