Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

PHY 101 — General Physics I

PHY department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• On completion, the student should be able to
• identify and deduce the physical quantities and their units
• differentiate between vectors and scalars
• describe and evaluate motion of systems on the basis of the fundamental laws of mechanics
• apply Newton’s laws to describe and solve simple problems of motion
• evaluate work, energy, velocity, momentum, acceleration, and torque of moving or rotating objects

Course contents

Space and time; units and dimension, Vectors and Scalars, Differentiation of vectors: displacement, velocity and acceleration; kinematics; Newton laws of motion (Inertial frames, Impulse, force and action at a distance, momentum conservation); Relative motion; Application of Newtonian mechanics; Equations of motion; Conservation…

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study PHY 101.

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