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<br>General Physics A I (Fall, 2017)
<br>Lecturer: Prof. Hsiu-Hau LIN
<br>Schedule: 10:10 - 12:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays
<br>Textbook: Physics for Scientists and Engineers (9th edition, Serway and Jewett)
<br>You can find the lecture videos in NTHU OpenCourseWare
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<br>Ten-Question Syllabus (Semester I)
<br>Q1: What is time?
<br>Q2: How to describe a dynamical system?
<br>Q3: Do forces always appear in pairs?
<br>Q4: Is energy always conserved?
<br>Q5: How does a rotating top maintain its balance?
<br>Q6: Are black holes black?
<br>Q7: Is pressure in liquids a scalar, a vector or a tensor?
<br>Q8: What is propagating in traveling waves?
<br>Q9: How is thermal equilibrium reached?
<br>Q10: How to quantify uncertainty in a statistical system?
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<br>Class Lectures
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<br>Week 1
<br>Sep 12: Course introduction
<br>Sep 14: What is time?
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<br>Week 2
<br>Sep 19: Lorentz transformation
<br>Sep 21: How to describe a dynamical system?
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<br>Week 3
<br>Sep 26: Newton's second law
<br>Sep 28: 教師節
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<br>Week 4
<br>Oct 3: Simple harmonic motion
<br>Oct 5: Do forces always appear in pairs?
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<br>Week 5
<br>Oct 10: 國慶日
<br>Oct 12: Center of mass
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<br>Week 6
<br>Oct 17: midterm 1 (Q1-Q3)
<br>Oct 19: midterm 1 discussions
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<br>Week 7
<br>Oct 24: Is energy always conserved?
<br>Oct 26: Conservative force and potential energy
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<br>Week 8
<br>Oct 31: Energy, energy, energy
<br>Nov 2: How does a rotating top maintain its balance?
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<br>Week 9
<br>Nov 7: Moment of inertia
<br>Nov 9: Coriolis effect
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<br>Week 10
<br>Nov 14: Are black holes black?
<br>Nov 16: Gravity and spacetime curvature
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<br>Week 11
<br>Nov 21: Is pressure in liquids a scalar, a vector or a tensor?
<br>Nov 23: Hagen-Poiseuille equation
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<br>Week 12
<br>Nov 28: midterm 2 (Q4-Q7)
<br>Nov 30: midterm 2 discussions
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<br>Week 13
<br>Dec 5: What is propagating in traveling waves?
<br>Dec 7: Wave equation
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<br>Week 14
<br>Dec 12: Wave equation 2
<br>Dec 14: Sound waves
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<br>Week 15
<br>Dec 19: How is thermal equilibrium reached?
<br>Dec 21: Heat and the first law of thermodynamics
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<br>Week 16
<br>Dec 26: Heat and the first law of thermodynamics 2
<br>Dec 28: How to quantify uncertainty in a statistical system?
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<br>Week 17
<br>Jan 2: Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
<br>Jan 4: thermal and information entropy
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<br>Week 18 (Final Week)
<br>Jan 9: final (Q8-Q10)
<br>Jan 11: final discussions
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