10740 (v.3) Physics for Foundation Studies 012

Area:

Department of Applied Physics

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

8.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

3 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

2 x 2 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Rotational equilibrium. Static electricity, fields. Charges, Coulomb's law, conductors and insulators. Electric potential and electric energy. Storage of energy - capacitance, dielectrics, batteries, thunderstorms and deep-space power supplies. Electric current. Conventions, resistance, Ohm's law, injured athletes, safety. Electric circuits. DC and AC current, EMF, power, Kirchoff's laws, advantages of both kinds of current, transformers, welders and the nervous system. Magnetism. Fields produced by electric currents, force on a single moving charge, speakers and electron microscopes. Electromagnetic induction. Faraday's law, magnetic flux, Lenz's law, generators, motors, transformers, sunspots and aurora. Waves - sound and light, interference, standing waves, beats, reflection, refraction, diffraction. Optics - plane, concave and convex mirrors, periscopes, telescopes and lasers. Concave and convex thin spherical lenses. Microscopes, spitting fish and weather images. Simple harmonic oscillations. Springs and pendula, energy of vibration, harmonic frequency, rocking chairs, bridges, molecules, gases, liquids, solids. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Materials science. The Apollo I, Apollo XIII and Challenger mission failures. Atomic physics.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

010301 Physics

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External