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Engineering Physics 1B - ZPEM1504
 Graduation

   
   
   
 
Campus: University College Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Equivalent: APHY1502
 
 
Fee Band: 5 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Students will be introduced to fundamental concepts in Physics through a selection of topics in the following two areas: Atomic and Nuclear Physics: wave-particle duality; the wave nature of patricles; deBroglie wavelength; electron and X-ray diffraction; photoelectric effect; quantisation of energy; Bohr model of the hydrogen atom; the nucleus and nuclear particles, unstable nuclei; ionizing radiation; radiocarbon dating; nuclear energy. Electricity and Magnetism: Coulomb's law, calculations of electric fields and potentials; Gauss's law, capacitance, conductors and electric currents, origins of electrical resistance, Ohm's law, electrical measurements; motion of charges in electric and magnetic fields; Ampere's law; Biot-Savart law; electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law, inductance; displacement current, Maxwell's equations in integral form.

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