Lecture Timeline · SC133
Physics for Engineers I in teaching order — 30 lectures across semester 1 (mechanics → gravitation → fluids → oscillations → waves → thermodynamics).
| Lecture | Topics | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Measurement, units, estimation | Measurement |
| 2 | Motion along a straight line | Kinematics · Displacement · Velocity · Acceleration · Kinematic equations (eq.) |
| 3 | Vectors | Vectors · Vector · Scalar |
| 4 | 2-D/3-D motion: projectiles | Projectile motion |
| 5 | 2-D/3-D motion: circular & relative motion | Circular motion · Relative motion |
| 6 | Force and motion: Newton's laws | Newton's laws · First · Second · Third · Force · Normal force · Tension · N2 (eq.) |
| 7 | Friction and drag | Friction · Drag · Friction & drag |
| 8 | Kinetic energy and work | Kinetic energy & work · Kinetic energy · Work · Power · Work–energy theorem (eq.) |
| 9 | Potential energy, conservation of energy | Potential energy · Conservation of energy |
| 10 | Center of mass, linear momentum | Center of mass · Linear momentum |
| 11 | Collision and impulse | Collision & impulse · Collision · Impulse |
| 12 | Rotation | Rotation · Angular velocity · Angular acceleration · Moment of inertia |
| 13 | Rolling, torque, angular momentum | Rolling, torque & L · Rolling motion · Torque · Angular momentum |
| 14 | Midterm review | Quizzes |
| 15 | Equilibrium and elasticity | Equilibrium & elasticity · Elasticity · Stress · Strain · Hooke's law (eq.) |
| 16 | Gravitation: Newton, superposition | Gravitation · Law of gravitation (eq.) |
| 17 | Gravitation: Kepler, Einstein | Kepler's laws · Orbits |
| 18 | Fluids: Pascal, Archimedes | Fluids · Fluid · Pascal's principle · Archimedes' principle |
| 19 | Fluids: continuity, Bernoulli | Continuity equation · Bernoulli · Bernoulli's equation — deepened in PC316 |
| 20 | Oscillations: simple harmonic motion | Oscillations · SHM · SHM equation (eq.) |
| 21 | Oscillations: pendulum, damped, forced | Pendulum · Damped & forced · Resonance |
| 22 | Waves: transverse waves, wave equation | Waves · Transverse wave · Wave equation |
| 23 | Waves: interference, standing waves | Interference · Superposition · Standing waves |
| 24 | Sound waves | Sound waves · Longitudinal wave |
| 25 | Beats and shock waves | Beats · Shock wave |
| 26 | Temperature and heat | Temperature & heat · Heat · Thermal expansion |
| 27 | First law of thermodynamics | First law · Internal energy |
| 28 | Ideal gases | Ideal gas · Ideal gas law (eq.) |
| 29 | Distribution of molecular speeds | Molecular speeds |
| 30 | Second law of thermodynamics | Second law · Entropy |