Course overview
The aim of this course is to introduce students to a study of the physical world and to develop their knowledge and understanding of some of the basic laws and principles of physics and their practical applications to engineering. Scalars and vectors; force and motion; energy and momentum; rotational motion and gravity; solids and fluids; vibrations and waves; electricity and magnetism.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain relevant physical phenomena clearly and accurately in the appropriate terminology.
- Relate basic laws and principles of physics to practical applications in engineering.
- Express well-defined relationships between physical quantities as formulae.
- Accurately perform calculations on a range of problem-solving exercises.
- Analyse, process and accurately present experimental data obtained from physics experiments or simulations.