General Physics A (I) (Fall, 2013)
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<br>Lecturer: Prof. Hsiu-Hau Lin
<br>Textbook: Physics by Giancoli
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<br>Sometimes, it is not easy to convince students why General Physics is important. In fact, I had a 
<br>hard time to convince myself as well. Thus, I do not plan to make the classes into "training 
<br>lessons". Instead, I hope you can muscle up your brain. In the following you will find ten 
<br>questions which would be the central themes of the course. 
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<br>Ten Questions for General Physics I 
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<br>Q1: What is time?
<br>Chapter 36 – Special Theory of Relativity
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<br>Q2: How to describe a dynamical system?
<br>Chapter 4 – Dynamics: Newton’s Law of Motion
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<br>Q3: Is energy always conserved?
<br>Chapter 7 – Work and Energy
<br>Chapter 8 – Conservation of Energy
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<br>Q4: Why do forces appear in pairs?
<br>Chapter 9 – Linear Momentum
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<br>Q5: How does a rotating top maintain its balance?
<br>Chapter 11 – Angular Momentum; General Rotation
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<br>Q6: Are black holes black?
<br>Chapter 6 – Gravitation and Newton’s Synthesis
<br>Chapter 44 – Astrophysics and Cosmology
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<br>Q7: Is pressure in liquids a scalar, a vector or a tensor?
<br>Chapter 13 – Fluids
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<br>Q8: What is propagating in traveling waves?
<br>Chapter 14 - Oscillations
<br>Chapter 15 – Wave Motion
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<br>Q9: How is thermal equilibrium reached?
<br>Chapter 17 – Temperature, Thermal Expansion, and the Ideal Gas Law
<br>Chapter 19 – Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics
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<br>Q10: How to quantify uncertainty in a statistical system? 
<br>Chapter 20 – Second Law of Thermodynamics
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<br>(1) 學期共有三次評量：兩次期中考與期末考。三次分數加總後，其平均值為期末原始分數，視全班學習
<br>狀況於整體比較後，以等第制給定最後的成績。
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<br>(2) 三次考試日期如下：
<br>Oct 20 (Sun) 1st midterm (10:00-17:00 共7小時)
<br>Dec 1 (Sun) 2nd midterm (10:00-17:00 共7小時)
<br>Jan 12 (Sun) final (10:00-17:00 共7小時)
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<br>(3) 每次考試有5題，每題佔20分，共100分。考試可以攜帶課本、豪豬筆記與自己的筆記，但請勿因為心
<br>慌而大量影印不相干的資料。考試期間不可交談討論、不可使用通訊器材與外聯絡，也請不要偷看他人答
<br>案。