INTRODUCTION TO

GENERAL PHYSICS 1
 ARIANE ROSAN AUSMOLO-
DIONISIO

• CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY (Don Severino

Delas Alas Campus/Main)
• Bachelor of Secondary Education major in
Biological Sciences
• LET (Licensure Examination for Teachers)
passer : September 2013
• GOVERNOR’S HILLS SCIENCE SCHOOL
Since 2013-Present
 What do you
expect from the
subject?
Grading System
Quarterly Exam 30%
Seatworks /Activities 25%
Quizzes 25%
Class Participation 10%
Project 10%
1. Be prepared and on time
2. Make sure you are following the
school dress code before signing
on.
3. Find a quiet place where you
will be able to concentrate
4. When you enter the meeting use
como
5. Stay focused and on task so you
don’t miss anything the speaker
says
TIPS ON HOW TO
STUDY PHYSICS
EFFECTIVELY
Calculators Won’t Solve
Your Problems
Active Learning
Note Taking
Math and Problem Solving
Understand the key
formulas you’ll have to
use. 
Note the key vocabulary
words you have to
remember.
Independent Study
Organization

Gather Materials:

• Notebook
• Scientific
Calculator
• Ruler
• Protractor
(angles)
• Other Supplies
By organizing all
problems, notes, and
graded exams, you are
always able to review.

1. HANDOUTS 4. EXAMS
2. NOTES 5. LABS
3. PROBLEMS 6. RESOURCES
 Timely Learning
Timely learning is efficient
learning. It is better to study an
hour each day than to cram on
weekends.
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 Complaints of Beginning Physics
Students
• Indi magaling teacher ko.
• Ang kapal ng textbook!
• Indi ako magaling s math.
• Wala akong oras.

• Dami kasing problema sa: bahay, nanay, tatay,

tropa, bf, gf, ff, gff . . .
• Sobra naman yung oras na physics..
 It’s Your
Responsibility!
As hard as it sounds, the ultimate responsibility for
learning rests with you and no one else.

Take Action; Never let things outside your

control prevent you from achieving goals!
SC IE NCE
•A body of knowledge growing all the
time
•Human activity and a body of knowledge
• Systematized body of knowledge based
on nature and facts of life.
•About general principles foreign to
observable commonsense statements
 Philosophy

Natural Philosophy Ethics

Physical Sciences
Physics
Chemistry
Astronomy

Biological Sciences
Botany
Zoology
Ecology
Introduction:
Everything in the universe moves and interacts, and forces
play a big part in that. Physics studies those forces and
interactions. Physics the study of matter, energy, and the
interaction between them.
Physic
s Branch of science which
deals with the study of
matter and energy
Branches of Physics
Mechanics:
• Force and Motion
• Kinematics: description of motion
•Dynamics: description of causes
of changes in motion
Branches of Physics
Thermodynamics
•Relationship of Heat and
Mechanics which includes a
thorough study of energy
Branches of Physics
Waves
•Deals with how energy is
transferred that includes concepts
of light and sound
Branches of Physics
Electricity and Magnetism
•Deals with characteristics and
behavior of matter.
Branches of Physics
Relativity and Modern Physics
•Deals with all concepts not
covered in the first 4 branches
Scientific Method
 A method that is extremely
effective in gaining, organizing,
and applying new knowledge.
Practiced within the context of
scientific thinking
Scientific Method
 Scientific Hypothesis
 An educated guess that is only
presumed to be factual when
demonstrated so be experiment
 Scientific Law
 Order in nature
 Hypothesis that has been tested over and
over again and have always been
found to be true.
Scientific Method
Scientific Fact
 Close agreement by competent
observers of the same phenomena

Scientific Theory
 A synthesis of a large body of
information that encompasses well-
tested and verified hypotheses about
certain aspects
Tools in Science
Language

Mathematics
 Physical Quantities
Quantities that describe
matter.
Can be classified as
FUNDAMENTAL QUANTITIES or
Ancient
History
Timeline of physics
• 500 – 1 BC -Archimedes, Aristotle Heliocentric theory, geometry

• 1 – 1300 AD -Al-hazen, Ptolemy in Egypt Optics, geocentric theory

•
• 1301 – 1499 -Leonardo de Vinci, Nicolas Cusanus Earth is in
motion,Occam’s Razor

• 1500 – 1599 -Nicolaus Copernicus,Tycho Brahe Heliocentric theory

revived, astronomy

• 1600 – 1650 -Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler Telescope,laws of

planetary motion
• 1651 – 1699 Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle Newtons Laws,
optics, Gas Laws
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• 1700 – 1750 Daniel Bernoulli, Edmund Halley
Thermodynamics, corpuscular theory

• 1751 – 1799 Coulomb, Henry Cavendish

Gravitational constant, specific heats

• 1800 – 1830 Thomas Young, Michael Faraday Interference t,

magnetic field

• 1831 – 1860 Lord Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell Theory of

heat,
Doppler Effect
• 1861 – 1899 Wilhelm Roentgen, Henri Becquerel The ether, X-rays,
radioactivity

• 1900 – 1920 Max Planck, Albert Einstein’s Quantum

Mechanics, special relativity

• 1921 – 1940 Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg

Accelerators,uncertainty principle

• 1941 – 1960 Richard Feynman, Edward Teller Nuclear Bomb,

Lasers,
the big bang

• 1961 – 1980 Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking First man on

the moon, black holes
GALILEO
GALILEI
• Made huge contributions
to scientific revolution
and astronomical
discoveries.
• Discovered the first four moons of
Jupiter
• Inventor of the telescope
• Physical science and
technological advances
• Considered as the father
of modern science.
Isaac Newton
• A British Physicist and
Mathematician
• Respected as the most
influential scientist of all
time.
• Proposed the 3 laws of
motion and universal law of
gravity
• Made contributions in the
field of optics.
• Shares credit to Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz in calculus.
• The corpuscular theory of
light
Benjamin Franklin
• Theory of positive and
negative energy
• Sending electric shock
through glass of wine
• Igniting gunpowder
through electricity
• In June 1752, drew
electricity from negative
clouds to a key on a kite.
• Invented the lightning rod,
bifocals, the franklin
stove, a carriage odometer
and glass armonica
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE
• Born Dec. 24 1818
• Best known for his
research in electricity
and thermodynamics
• Proved conservation
of energy
• Discovered the
mechanical
equivalent of heat
• Unit of energy JOULE
was named in his
honor
• First law of TD
ALBERT EINSTEIN
• Physicist-theorist
• Founder of modern
physics
• Author of the theory of
relativity
• Quantum mechanics
• Developing of
statistical physics and
cosmology
• Winner of nobel prize
in physics 1921 (for an
explanation of the
photoelectric effect)
Stephen Hawkins
• Stephen Hawking's
contributions to the
understanding of gravity, black
holes and cosmology were
truly immense.
• They began with the
singularity theorems in the
1960s followed by his
discovery that black holes
have an entropy and
consequently a finite
temperature.
Homework # 1
1. What is measurement?
2. Differentiate fundamental quantities
from derived quantities
3. Differentiate English system of
measurement to Metric system
4. Differentiate precision and accuracy
5. Enumerate the rules in determining the
numbers of significant figures.