Guia docente 2023_24 Facultade de Química

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Topic 1. Introduction	1. The nature of Physics 2. Consistency and unit conversion 3. Uncertainty and significant figures 4. Vectors (vector sum, vector components, unit vectors, vector product)
Topic 2. Kinematics of a point particle	1. Motion in one dimension Position, median and instant velocity Median and instant acceleration Motion with constant acceleration 2. Motion in two and three dimensions Position and velocity vectors Acceleration vector Parabolic motion Circular motion
Topic 3. Newton's laws of motion	1. Force and interactions 2. First law of Newton 3. Second law of Newton 4. Third law of Newton 5. Linear and angular momentum
Topic 4. Work and kinetic energy	1. Work done by a force. Power 2. Kinetic energy 3. Conservative and non-conservative forces 4. Potential energy 5. Potential energy in the gravitational field 6. Mechanical energy 7. Force and potential energy 8. Principle of conservation of the mechanical energy
Topic 5. Rigid body kinetics	1. System 2. Rigid body 3. Traslation motion 4. Rotation motion around a fixed axis
Topic 6. Particulate system kinetics	1. Systems of particles 2. Center of mass of the system. Motion of c.m.s 3. Ecuations of motion of a system of particles 4. Linear momentum. Conservation of linear momentum 5. Angular momentum. Conservation of angular momentum 6. Work and power 7. Potential and kinetic energy 8. Total mechanical energy
Topic 7. Rigid body dynamics	1. Rotation of a rigid body 2. Moment of inertia 3. Calculation of moment of inertia 4. Theorem of Steiner 5. Momentum of force and of pair of forces 6. Equations of motion of the rigid body 7. Kinetic energy of the rigid body 8. Work 9. Angular momentum. Conservation
Topic 8. Periodic motion	1. Oscillations 2. Simple harmonic motion (SHM) 3. Energy of SHM 4. Applications of the SHM 5. Pendulum 6. Damped oscillations 7. Driven oscillations. Resonance
Topic 9. Mechanical waves	1. Mechanical waves 2. Periodic waves 3. Mathematical description of a wave 4. Velocity of a transverse wave 5. Energy of the wave motion 6. Interference, superposition 7. Stationary waves 8. Normal modes
Lab. Introduction to error analysis	Lab exercises for the introduction to error analysis: 1. Geometrical dimensions 2. Density of a liquid and a solid 3. Surface tension 4. Viscosity