Physics+I

2014 ACE Award (Open Education Consortium)
OCW designed by Professor Hsiu-Hau LIN 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
L1: Course introduction L2: Q1:
 * Week 1 **

L3: L4: Q2:
 * Week 2 **

L5: L6:
 * Week 3 **

L7: Q3: L8:
 * Week 4 **

midterm 1 (Q1-Q3) midterm 1 discussions
 * Week 5 **

L9: Q4: L10:
 * Week 6 **

L11: L12: Q5:
 * Week 7 **

L13: L14:
 * Week 8 **

L15: Q6: L16:
 * Week 9 **

L17: Q7: L18:
 * Week 10 **

midterm 2 (Q4-Q7) midterm 2 discussions
 * Week 11 **

L19: Q8: L20:
 * Week 12 **

L21: Wave equation 2 L22:
 * Week 13 **

L23: Q9: L24:
 * Week 14 **

L25: Heat and the first law of thermodynamics 2 L26: Q10:
 * Week 15 **

L27: L28:
 * Week 16 **

final (Q8-Q10)
 * Week 17 **

**Week 18** (Final Week) final discussions