Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

PHY 101 — General Physics I (Mechanics)

2 units · PHY department course · Nigerian universities

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

• 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
• apply Newton’s laws to describe and solve simple problems of motion
• evaluate work, energy, velocity, momentum, acceleration, and torque of moving or
• explain and apply the principles of conservation of energy, linear and angular momentum
• describe the laws governing motion under gravity; and
• explain motion under gravity and quantitatively determine behaviour of objects moving

Course contents

Space and time; units and dimension, vectors and scalars, differentiation of vectors: displacement, velocity and acceleration; kinematics; Newton’s laws of motion (inertial frames, impulse, force and action at a distance, momentum conservation); relative motion; application of Newtonian mechanics; equations of motion; conservation principles in physics, conservative forces, conservation of linear momentum, kinetic energy and work, potential energy, system of particles, centre of mass; rotational motion; torque, vector product, moment, rotation of coordinate axes and angular momentum. Polar coordinates; conservation of angular momentum; circular motion; moments of inertia, gyroscopes and precession; gravitation: Newton’s law of gravitation, Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, gravitational potential energy, escape velocity, satellites motion and orbits. PHY 103 General Physics II (2 Units C: LH 30) (Behaviour of Matter) Learning Outcomes On completion, the students should be able to: 1. explain the concepts of heat and temperature and relate the temperature scales; 2. define, derive and apply the fundamental thermodynamic relations to thermal systems; 3. describe and explain the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and the concept of entropy; 4. state the assumptions of the kinetic theory and apply techniques of describing macroscopic behaviour; 5. deduce the formalism of the

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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