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PHS1022

Faculty of Science

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Science

Organisational Unit

School of Physics and Astronomy

Coordinator(s)

Dr Paul Lasky

Offered

Clayton

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit forms part of main-stream physics and provides foundations in rotational dynamics, the gravitational field, electrostatics, magnetism and quantum physics. Together these topics underpin interactions in our universe at sub-atomic to cosmic scales. Electrostatics explores the electric field, potential and energy for various situations, and the behaviour of capacitors and dielectrics. Magnetism covers the relation between currents, magnetic fields and induced emfs, inductance, LCR resonance, and introduces Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves. Quantum physics includes wave particle duality for matter and light, quantisation, wave-functions and probabilities, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, hydrogen atom, and the particle-in-a-box model.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will be able to:

  1. Explain and understand concepts taught in the unit such as fields, electromagnetic phenomena, and quantum mechanics;

  1. Apply their knowledge to solve problems related to these concepts;

  1. Evaluate and appraise novel situations in terms of fields, electrostatics, magnetic interaction and quantum effects;

  1. Execute experiments involving simple apparatus and analyse, interpret and evaluate the results arising from them;

  1. Present and communicate results of others and one's own experimentations in a scientific form.

Assessment

Experimental work: 30%
Tests/Assignments: 20%
Examination (three hours): 50%

Students must achieve a pass mark in the experimental work to achieve an overall pass grade.

Workload requirements

  • Two 1-hour classes and one 3-hour class per week (attendance is expected at all classes)
  • Seven hours of private study per week

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Paul Lasky

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Astrophysics
Materials science
Physics
Physiology

Prerequisites

PHS1011 or Year 12 Physics or PHS1080 or PHS1031, and VCE Specialist Mathematics or MTH1020

Co-requisites

Recommended: MTH1030, MTH1035 or ENG1005
Note: to continue with Physics at level two students must have taken MTH1030, MTH1035 or ENG1005 by the end of level one.

Prohibitions

PHS1042