2017-Physics-I

General Physics A I (Fall, 2017)
**Lecturer:** Prof. Hsiu-Hau LIN **Schedule:** 10:10 - 12:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays **Textbook:** Physics for Scientists and Engineers (9th edition, Serway and Jewett) You can find the lecture videos in NTHU OpenCourseWare

Ten-Question Syllabus (Semester I)
Q1: What is time? Q2: How to describe a dynamical system? Q3: Do forces always appear in pairs? Q4: Is energy always conserved? Q5: How does a rotating top maintain its balance? Q6: Are black holes black? Q7: Is pressure in liquids a scalar, a vector or a tensor? Q8: What is propagating in traveling waves? Q9: How is thermal equilibrium reached? Q10: How to quantify uncertainty in a statistical system?

Class Lectures
Sep 12: Course introduction Sep 14: ****
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Sep 19: Sep 21: ****
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Sep 26: Sep 28: 教師節
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Oct 3: Oct 5: ** **
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Oct 10: 國慶日 Oct 12:
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Oct 17: midterm 1 (Q1-Q3) Oct 19: midterm 1 discussions
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Oct 24: ** ** Oct 26:
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Oct 31: Nov 2: ****
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Nov 7: Nov 9:
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Nov 14: **** Nov 16:
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Nov 21: **** Nov 23:
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Nov 28: midterm 2 (Q4-Q7) Nov 30: midterm 2 discussions
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Dec 5: **** Dec 7:
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Dec 12: Wave equation 2 Dec 14:
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Dec 19: ** ** Dec 21:
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Dec 26: Heat and the first law of thermodynamics 2 Dec 28: ** **
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Jan 2: Jan 4:
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**Week 18** (Final Week) Jan 9: final (Q8-Q10) Jan 11: final discussions