Module Specification 2020/21

Module code: 23BAS012 Title: Physics (1)

Programme: Faculty of Energy

Level: P Modular weight: 10 and Environmental Engineering
Module Type: Compulsory
Prerequisite modules:
Reassessment:
Module leader:
Semester taught: First Semester
Language taught and assessed: English
Date of latest revision: 26th August 2020

Aims
The aim of this module is providing the students with the basic principles of physics, which he started
in the pre-university stage and required to enter the various engineering disciplines, which depend on
physics dramatically.

Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module students should be able to:
Knowledge and Understanding
1. Understand physical facts, terminology, principles, relationships, concepts with using technical
vocabulary relevant to engineering career.

Subject Specific Cognitive Skills

2. Identify the difference between the various thermodynamic processes and their engineering
applications.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

3. Perform and design simple experiments to test selected material.
4. Solve theoretical and practical problems related to module contents.

Transferable Skills
5. Examine data and scientific materials from textbooks and other proper resources.
6. Handling of lab equipment.

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Employability
This module will provide opportunities for students to enhance/enable:
1. Using numbers: Apply a wide range of numerical and statistical skills to solve complex
problems. [B1.1]
2. Decision making: Make decisions by determining the best course of action and evaluating
different options based on logic and fact in order to present solutions. [C2.5]
3. Self-motivation: Understand the importance of being self-motivated in order to progress the
area of work. [A5]
4. B1.2: Other. [B1.2]

Indicative Content
• Measurements and fundamental, quantities Units and dimensions; Accuracy, precision
and errors dimensional analysis.
• Newton’s Three Laws of Motion and Newton’s Law of Gravitation.
• Work and Conservation of Energy Sates of matter; solids, liquids, and gases Simple harmonic
motion.
• Heat; temperature, thermometers, thermal expansion, heat transfer, Thermodynamics; first
law, heat engines and the second law of thermodynamics, Kinetic theory of gases.
• Wave motion, Wave optics, Nature of light and laws of geometric optics.

Methods of Learning, Teaching and Assessment

Total student effort for the module:100 hours on average over 1 semester/s.

Typical Student Effort

Type of session Typical number in the Typical hours per
Total hours
semester/s week
Lecture 12 2 24

Tutorial 12 2 24

Laboratory 6 2 12

Private study 40

Assessment
Exam/Written
Weight ILOs Exam Coursework
Type Assessment Nature
% Assessed Semester Length
Unseen Summative
exam 60 % 3,4 First Semester 180 Minutes
Class test 1 20 % 1,2 First Semester 60 Minutes Summative
Lab report 20 % 5,6 First Semester NA Summative
Class test 2 0% 1,2,3,4 First Semester 60 Minutes Formative

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Methods of Feedback
In response to assessed work:
• On the course work paper.
• Model answers are uploaded on the eLearning website.

Developmental feedback generated through teaching activities:

• Defining the strength and weakness of the students during the teaching activities.
• Low grades students are invited to attend additional clinic tutorials.

Indicative Reading List

Core
• Raymond A. Serway, Robert J. Beichner, John W. Jewett (Editor), "Physics for Scientists
and Engineers with Modern Physics", Thomson Learning, ISBN: 13: 9780495112402 (2014).

Further
• R M. Eisberg and R. Resnick, "Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei
and Particles", Wiley, ISBN: 978-0471873730 (1985).
• W. Bauer and G. Westfall, “University Physics with Modern Physics”, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-
0-07-122177-1(2010).
• Randall D. Knight, “Physics for Scientists and Engineers”, Third Edition, Pearson, ISBN-13:
978-0-321-82408-0 ISBN 10:0-321-82408-3 (2013).

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