General Physics A I (Fall, 2023)
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<br>Lecturer: Prof. Hsiu-Hau LIN
<br>Schedule: 10:10 - 12:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays
<br>Textbook: Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Serway and Jewett)
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<br>Note:
<br>(1) This course follows a 16-week syllabus with extra learning materials available 
<br>online:
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<br>https://www.youtube.com/@prof-hedgehog
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<br>(2) AI tools (like ChatGPT) are allowed with necessary explanations.
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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>Course introduction
<br>What is time?
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<br>Week 2
<br>Lorentz transformation
<br>How to describe a dynamical system?
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<br>Week 3
<br>Newton's second law
<br>教師節
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<br>Week 4
<br>Do forces always appear in pairs?
<br>Center of mass
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<br>Week 5
<br>國慶日
<br>Is energy always conserved?
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<br>Week 6
<br>Conservative force and potential energy
<br>How does a rotating top maintain its balance?
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<br>Week 7
<br>Moment of inertia
<br>Coriolis effect
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<br>Week 8
<br>midterm (Q1-Q5)
<br>midterm 2 discussions
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<br>Week 9
<br>Are black holes black?
<br>Gravity and spacetime curvature
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<br>Week 10
<br>Is pressure in liquids a scalar, a vector or a tensor?
<br>Hagen-Poiseuille equation
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<br>Week 11
<br>What is propagating in traveling waves?
<br>Wave equation
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<br>Week 12
<br>Wave equation 2
<br>Sound waves
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<br>Week 13
<br>How is thermal equilibrium reached?
<br>Heat and the first law of thermodynamics
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<br>Week 14
<br>Heat and the first law of thermodynamics 2
<br>How to quantify uncertainty in a statistical system?
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<br>Week 15
<br>Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
<br>thermal and information entropy
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<br>Week 16
<br>final (Q6-Q10)
<br>final discussions
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