Phy 101 Outline
Phy 101 Outline
Course Outline
Al Hussein Bin Talal University Department of Physics
Instructor: Dr monther alsboul
Textbook: Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, by R. A. Serway
and R. J. Beichner, Fifth Edition
Week TOPICS
number
CHAPTER 1: Physics and Measurements
1+2 CHAPTER 2: Motion in one dimension
Displacement, velocity and speed, instantaneous velocity and speed, acceleration, one-
dimensional motion with constant acceleration, freely falling objects.
CHAPTER 3: Vectors
2+3 Coordinate systems, vector and scalar quantities, some properties of vectors, components of a
vector and unit vectors, the scalar and vector products of two vectors.
4 CHAPTER 4: Motion in Two Dimensions
The displacement, velocity, and acceleration vectors, two-dimensional motion with constant
acceleration, projectile motion, uniform circular motion, tangential and radial acceleration.
CHAPTER 5: The Laws of Motion
5+6 The concept of force, Newton's First law, mass, Newton’s Second law, The force of gravity
and weight, Newton’s Third law, some applications of Newton's laws, forces of friction.
7 CHAPTER 6: Circular Motion and Other Applications of Newton's Laws
Newton's second law applied to uniform circular motion, no uniform circular motion.
CHAPTER 7: Work and Energy
8 Work done by constant force, work done by varying force, kinetic energy and the work
energy theorem, power.
CHAPTER 8: Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy
9 + 10 Potential energy, conservative and nonconservative forces, conservative forces and potential
energy, conservation of mechanical energy, work done by nonconservative forces,
relationship between conservative forces and potential energy.
CHAPTER 9: Linear Momentum and Collisions
11 + 12 Llinear momentum and its conservation, impulse and momentum, elastic and inelastic
collisions in one dimension, two-dimensional collisions, the center of mass, motion of a
system of particles.
CHAPTER 10: Rotation of a Rigid body About a Fixed Axis
Angular displacement, velocity and acceleration, rotational kinematics, angular and linear
13 + 14 quantities, rotational eenergy, calculation of moments of inertia, torque, relationship between
torque and angular acceleration, work, power, and energy in rotational motion.