PHY 154 — PROPERTIES OF MATTER
BSc BSc Physics · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Fluids: Pressure; Variation of atmospheric pressure with height; Density: Archimedes’ principle; Applications of Bernoulli’s principle; Properties of solids from molecular theory; Elasticity: Hooke’s law; Elastic moduli; Moleculer theory of matter: particle nature of matter; Steady flow of liquid through a pipe. Poiseuille’s formula. Turbulent motion. Stoke’s law, terminal velocity. Molecular theory of viscosity. Surface tension: some surface tension phenomena: capillarity, angle of contact. Measurement of surface tension; Pressure difference in a bubble or curved liquid surface. Emulsions and emulsifiers; The ideal gas laws: Equipartition of energy. Maxwell’s distribution of velocities. Heat as a form of energy: Thermal expansion of solid and liquids. Thermometers and thermal equilibrium. Conduction of heat. Change of state. Specific heat of a gas .The adiabatic equation. 156 EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS II 3 Credits Basic instrumentation and measurements: Electronics; Magnetic measurements; Light detectors and other transducers; Thermal properties of matter; Radiation and charged particle detectors; Supervised laboratory classes in which students carry out set of experiments. 158 MATHEMATICS FOR PHYSICS II 2 Credits Integration: Definition; Definite Integrals; Integration of Simple Continuous and Rational Functions, Methods of Integration - By Parts, Substitution, Partial Fractions, Approximation Methods (Trapezoidal and Simpson Rules) and Reduction Formula. Differential Equations: Basic Concepts; Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations by Separable and Integrating Factor Methods; Linear Differential Equations of Second Order with Constant Coefficients; System of First Order Equations; Reduction of nth Order Equation to a System of First Order Equations; Solution in Series; Applications to relevant problems in Physics. Laplace transformations and their application to the solution of second-order LDE’s with constant coefficients. Matrices: Matrix algebra. Types of matrices; the transpose, adjoint and inverse of a matrix. The invariant of a matrix; Evaluation of Determinants; Application to the solution of simultaneous linear equations and linear systems of differential equations with constant coefficients
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 100
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