General Physics I
2
2019-2020
01002891
Physics
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Teaching Methods
The course methodology is a combination of lectures, supported by PowerPoint presentations and with some more complex concepts explained on the whiteboard, and exercise solving. Students are invited to ask questions and to participate very actively in problems resolution.
Learning Outcomes
Objectives:
• To understand the meaning of position, velocity and acceleration
• To understand the concept of force; different kinds of forces
• To know different forms of energy; work and energy
• To know the properties of many particle systems: concepts of centre of mass; internal and external forces; Newton laws for the system; linear moment
• To know about kinematics and dynamics of rotation
• To use elasticity moduli to compute deformation
• To know basic concepts from hydrostatics and hydrodynamics
• To be familiar with simple harmonic motion
• To understand the concept of wave
Learning outcomes:
• To develop physics problem solving skills
• To use basic mathematical tools from algebra and analysis
• Critical thinking
• Self-learning
• To identify applications in Geology/Geophysics
• Oral and writing communications skills
• Information management
• Organization and planning.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
- Motion in one dimension: displacement, velocity and speed, acceleration
- Motion in two dimensions: projectile and circular motion
- Newton's laws; applications
- Friction
- Work and energy
- Conservation of energy
- Systems of particles and conservation of momentum
- Rotation; conservation of angular momentum
- Static equilibrium and elasticity
- Fluids: density, pressure, Archimede's principle, viscous flow
- Simple harmonic motion: damped oscillations, driven oscillations
- Wave motion: transverse and longitudinal, reflection and refraction, sound waves, Doppler effect
Head Lecturer(s)
Vítor Hugo Nunes Rodrigues
Assessment Methods
Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%
Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 100.0%
Bibliography
-Física para Cientistas e Engenheiros, P.A. Tipler, 4ª ed., LTC Editora, 2000, vol. 1
-Fundamentos de Física, M. Margarida R.R. Costa e M. José B.M. de Almeida, 2ª ed. Almedina, 2004
-Physics for Geologists, R. E. Chapman, 2nd ed,Routledge, 2002
-Fundamentals of Geophysics, W. Lowrie, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2007
Sears e Zemansky – Física (I e II), H. D. Young & R.A. Freedman, 10ª ed., Brasil: Addison Wesley 2003.
-Fundamentos de Física, D. Halliday, R. Resnick, J. Merrill, Livros Técnicos e Científicos, Rio de Janeiro, 1994 (vols. 1 e 2).
Principles of Physics, F. J. Bueche, D. A. Jerde, 6ª ed, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1995.