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This document outlines the syllabus for a Modern Mechanics course. It will cover topics like interactions and motion, momentum, energy principles, and collisions over 14 weekly lectures. Students will be evaluated based on a final exam, practical exam, midterm, quizzes, assignments, and lab reports. The objectives are to develop skills in using fundamental principles to solve physics problems, describing position and motion mathematically, and understanding momentum and energy concepts. The textbook is listed. Example problems are provided to illustrate key concepts like vectors, average velocity, and Newton's first law of motion.

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PHM031 - Lecture1

This document outlines the syllabus for a Modern Mechanics course. It will cover topics like interactions and motion, momentum, energy principles, and collisions over 14 weekly lectures. Students will be evaluated based on a final exam, practical exam, midterm, quizzes, assignments, and lab reports. The objectives are to develop skills in using fundamental principles to solve physics problems, describing position and motion mathematically, and understanding momentum and energy concepts. The textbook is listed. Example problems are provided to illustrate key concepts like vectors, average velocity, and Newton's first law of motion.

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PH031 – Modern Mechanics

Fall 2021

Dr.Waleed Zein
Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering - EUI
[email protected]
Or [email protected]
Whatsapp : 01129366633
Course Aim
Develop practical skills about using
fundamental principles to solve physics
quantitative problems.

Textbook
Matter & Interactions – Volume 1 – Modern Mechanics (4th
Edition), by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood (Wiley).
Grading Schema

Final Exam 40
Practical Exam 10
Midterm 20
10
Quizzes +
Student Assignments & 10
Activities Lab reports 10
Total = 100
Course Syllabus
Week Lecture Contents
1 1 Interactions and Motion
2 2 The Momentum Principle
3 3 The Fundamental Interactions
4 4 Contact Interactions
5 5 Determining Forces from Motion
6 6 The Energy Principle
7 Midterm Exam
8 7 Internal Energy
9 8 Energy Quantization
10 9 Translational, Rotational, and Vibrational Energy
11 10 Collisions
12 11 Angular Momentum
13 Review week
14 Final Exam
OBJECTIVES

After studying this lecture you should be able to

• Deduce from observations of an object’s motion whether or not


it has interacted with its surroundings.

• Mathematically describe position and motion in three


dimensions.

• Mathematically describe momentum and change of momentum


in three dimensions.

• Read and modify a simple computational model of motion at


constant velocity.
Kinds of matter

Nuclei Atoms

=1 Å (Angström)

Interacting protons and neutrons Interacting nuclei and electrons


Kinds of matter
Solids: Interacting molecules and atoms
Billions of atoms or molecules come together
Atoms are fixed in 3D array

Salt
crystal

Silicon crystal

STM images

Amorphous Germanium
Kinds of matter
Liquids: Atoms are still bond to each other but can freely slide along
each other

Water

Dynamics is complex: we will not consider liquid in detail in this course


Kinds of matter
Gases: Atoms are not bound to each other
Energy of atoms is too large and Interatomic forces are broken
Example

Magnitude and Direction


Factor the vector ⃗v = ⟨-22.3, 0.4,-19.5⟩ m/s into a magnitude
times a unit vector.

Solution
Example
Average Velocity of a Bee
Consider a bee in flight. At time ti = 15.0 s after 9:00 AM, the bee’s position
vector was ⃗ri = ⟨2, 4, 0⟩ m. At time tf = 15.1 s after 9:00 AM, the bee’s position
vector was ⃗rf = ⟨3, 3.5, 0⟩ m. What was the average velocity of the bee during
this interval? Express this vector as the product of the magnitude of the
velocity (speed) and a unit vector in the direction of the velocity.

Solution
Newton’s first law of motion

Every body persists in its state of rest or of moving with


constant speed in a constant direction, except to the extent
that it is compelled to change that state by forces acting on it.
Detecting interactions

Objects made of matter interact with each other: Gravitationally


Electrically
Magnetically
Through strong and weak interaction

Detecting interaction:

➢Change of speed

➢Change of direction

➢Change of velocity

Velocity: a physical quantity that has magnitude and direction


(speed)
vector
Indicators of interaction

➢ Change of velocity
➢ Change of identity H2 + O2 → H2O
➢ Change of shape bending a wire
➢ Change of temperature heating pot of water on a hot stove
➢ Lack of change when change is expected balloon floating in sky

Uniform motion: velocity is constant


Motion

Non-uniform motion

Velocity changes in time

Uniform motion: velocity is constant

Special case: an object at rest (velocity is zero, direction undefined)

Uniform motion implies that there is no “net” interaction

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