FC 182 — French for Communication Purposes II

BSc BSc Computer Engineering · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

L'article partitif ( du, de la, de l' , des, ..). Les pronom Conjugaison i. Le futur simple ii. Le passe compose Pronominalisation ( pronom d'objet direct …). L'expression avec " avoir" / "?tre" i. Ex - avoir besoin de ii. Ex - avoir envie de, etc Les chiffres de cent ? l'infinite. Degre de l'adjectif. L'expression avec - "Il y a / Depuis. Le pluriel Mots interrogatifs i. Quand ii. combien, etc Au marche (Acheter et consummer ). Invitation. A la banque. Le voyage ( par avion / par le train ). Remplir une appartement. Correspondance ( lettre non-officielle). La culture fancaise (suite) YEAR TWO: Semester ONE 251 ELECTRONICS I 2 Credits Work function, space charge, photon emission. General principles and construction of Cathode Ray Oscilloscope. Uses of Oscilloscopes. Rectification and amplification. P-N junction formation and behaviour. Semiconductor diodes characteristics and application. Power supplies and filters. Regulated power supplies. Voltage multipliers. Biasing techniques. AC and DC loadlines. Characteristics of CB, CE, and CC configurations. Introduction to amplifiers: small signal amplifiers, R-C couples amplifiers. Voltage follower configuration. 253 CLASSICAL MECHANICS I 2 Credits Review of elementary dynamics of a particle; Systems of particles; Collisions; Kinematics of a rigid body; Dynamics of a rigid body; Systems of particles with constraints; Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics 255 THERMODYNAMICS 2 Credits Review of heat as form of energy; First law of thermodynamics; The Carnot Cycle; Entropy; the Second law of thermodynamics; thermodynamic processes; thermodynamic potentials; partial derivatives of the thermodynamic potentials; Phase transitions; Physics of low temperatures; Applied thermodynamics 257 EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS III 3 Credits Practical experiments in Solid State Physics and Materials Science. Practical experiments in Optics. Practical experiments in Electronics; design and fabrication of electronic projects . Practical experiments in Nuclear Physics. To learn scientific report writing. To consolidate theory. 259 MATHEMATICS FOR PHYSICS III 2 Credits Directional and partial derivatives. Total derivatives (Differentials). The gradient vector. Differentials of composite functions. Condition for existence of the differential. Partial derivatives of higher order. Applications of partial differentiation: parametric integration; the Jacobian; the inverse and implicit function theorem; extremum problems. Multiple integrals (MI). Surface and volume integrals. Condition for existence of MI. Evaluation of MI: repeated integration; change of variables. Vectors in Cartesian coordinate systems. Change of axes. Scalar and vector fields. Vector fields in a plane. Line integrals; Green’s theorem. Vector fields in space. Gauss’s and Stokes’ theorems. Curvilinear coordinates

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2

Level

Year Two

Semester

Semester Two

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