Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

7698 (v.4) Physics 125


Area: Department of Applied Physics
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
** 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: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Designed for students who have passed TEE Physics or equivalent. Mechanics: motion in one dimension, vectors, projectile motion, forces, Newton's laws of motion, free-body diagrams, weight, friction, circular motion and gravitation, work and energy, linear momentum, rotational motion, bodies in equilibrium, elasticity and fracture. Electricity: electrostatic charge, conductors and insulators, Coulomb's law, electric fields and lines, electric potential, potential difference, bioelectricity, equipotentialsurfaces, electric current, electric circuit components, Ohm's Law, equivalent resistance, voltage divider, electric energy, Kirchoff, electrical safety, current types, resistivity and conductivity, magnetic fields, properties of flux lines, electric currents and magnetism, magnetic force, eddy currents, heating in therapy, alternators, transformers, capacitance, dielectrics, inductors and RLC circuits.
** 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
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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y 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

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