PAZ151 Introduction to Physical Sciences
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Textbook
Basically I will use materials from a free book on the internet.
For the first week, please look at the announcements.
Slides
History of science
Symmetry
Conservation laws
Light
Light 2
Topics
to be covered
1. History of Astronomy and Physics
2. Scales in the Universe
3. Mechanics
4. Electromagnetism
5. Thermodynamics
6. Optics
Exams
I plan to do a single midterm and a Final Exam.
There will be occasional quizes about the material I post on this
webpage.
Your attendence to the lectures by questions, comments and suggestions
will also be evaluated.
Rules
of PAZ151
-
You are assumed to follow this
website regularly. All announcements and documents will be available
from
this website.
- You are
expected to attend at least 70% of the lectures. I will not
check your attendance and I leave it to your responsibility. Although I
will not check the attendence, naturally, I will be more willing to
help those attend the lectures regularly in any of the problems they
encounter about the lesson.
- You are free to enter the class
(join the lesson) during the lecture, BUT please be polite enough to
make your entrance least distracting by using the back door and
choosing a seat that is close to the door. Disturbing the others by
trying to sit near to a friend is a rude attitude.
Announcements
1. The reading material for the first week:
a) Read
CH 2 & 3 from Dr.
Strobels astronomy
notes,
b) from
Wikipedia: interesting reading on the origin of
the Days of
the Week.
c) The story of Takiyuddin
by Yavuz Unat.
d) The slides of
lecture 1 are deleted from the web from now on.
2. Reading assignment,
from light and matter book:
from Newtonian
Physics p.19 to p.41.
3. Reading assignment,
from Newtonian
Physics, from p.43 to p.53 & from p.57 to p.61.
4. Reading assignment,
the same book, from p.69 to p100 and p.107-108.
5. Reading assignment,
the same book, from p.121 to 134.