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Lecturer : | Prof. Ben Kilminster |
Lectures ( PHY121.1 ): |
Thursday, 08:00 - 09:45 ( Zoom room sent by email ) Friday, 08:00 - 09:45 |
Exercise sessions ( PHY121.2 ): | Thursday, 13:00 - 14:45 (First : 4th March 2021) |
Formelsammlung Mittelschulphysik (PDF, 396 KB) is also useful for usage of basic formulas.
Exercises will be posted on OLAT here. Please register and log in immediately to see if you can access the course, If not, check that your UZH email is registered properly.
Exercises will be assigned every Wednesday, and will be due the following Wednesday at 18:00. Your teacher assistant (TA) will let you know where to submit your exercises.
The first exercise sheet will be assigned on February 25th, and should be submitted to the TA on Feb. 26th. The solutions to the first exercise sheet will be presented on March 3rd.
The final exam schedule is located hier.
Mid-term exam : Live, Thursday, April 15th, 13:00-14:45. Based on Weeks 1-6. Counts as homework.
Final exam : Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2021 10:00-12:00 Uhr Hörsäle 20, 40.
Exams will be similar in style to the weekly exercises (conceptual questions). A formula sheet with all needed equations will be provided to you in the exams. The formula sheet will be sent to you at least a week before the exam to help you study. We will provide you with paper and a calculator if needed. The final exam will be printed in english and in german. The mid-term will be based on the first six lectures, and the first five written exercises.
Your grade is based on the following assessments :
Attendance is expected and recorded for exercise sessions. The mid-term and final examination will be composed of questions similar to those presented in the lectures and the weekly exercises.
Script | PHY121-Kilminster-Script-Finalv9 (PDF, 3 MB) (last edited: August 29, 2021) |
Lecture schedule (25 lectures) | Topics | PDF of chalkboard | Additional resources |
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Week 1 (Feb. 25-26, 2021) |
Electric charge, Coulomb force, Electric field, dipoles
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PHY121-FS2021-Info-Links (PDF, 1 MB) |
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Week 2 (Mar.4-5, 2021) |
Gauss' law, conductors, Electric potential | PHY111-FS2021-ClassPic (PNG, 6 MB) | |
Week 3 (Mar. 11-12, 2021) | Electric potential, capacitors, dielectrics | ||
Week 4 (Mar. 18-19, 2021) |
Electrodynamics; current; resistance; circuits with V, I, R; RC circuits |
Podcast is on OLAT. No live session. |
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Week 5 (Mar. 25-26, 2021) |
Magnetic field, Lorentz force from moving charges or a current-carrying wire in B-field, magnetic moment, magnetism, Hall effect, B-field from moving charges/current-carrying wires |
Podcast is on OLAT. No live session. |
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Week 6 (Apr. 1, 2021) Holiday April 2nd |
Biot Savart Law, Ampere's law, magnetic flux, Faraday's law. |
PHY121-FS2020-Week6-L1 (PDF, 7 MB) |
Podcast is on OLAT. No live session. |
Holiday April 8-9th |
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Week 7 (April 15-16, 2021)
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Lenz's law, motional EMF, Eddy currents
inductance, alternating current generators. circuits with inductors (LR, LC, LCR), energy stored in a magnetic field. Magnetization, magnetic moments of atoms. |
PHY121-FS2020-Week7-Supplemental (PDF, 14 MB) The supplemental lecture notes are on AC circuits. This is an extra topic for interested people. |
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Week 8 (April 22-23, 2021) |
Quantized description of magnetic moment, paramagnetic, diamagnetic, ferrormagnetic materials Displacement current, review of the four Maxwell's equations, Lecture on the method of images in electrostatics. Summary of lecture on AC circuits. Experiments on AC circuits. Review of Maxwell's equations. Displacement current. Thermodynamics: Intro |
PHY121-FS2020-Week7-L2 (PDF, 8 MB) PHY121-FS2020-Week8-L1-part1 (PDF, 3 MB) |
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Week 9 (April 29-30, 2021) |
Thermodynamics : microscopic properties. Heat is energy. Heat <-> Work. First law of thermodynamics. Heat energy transfer. Heat conduction. |
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Week 10 (May 6-7, 2021)
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Heat energy transfer. Heat expansion, radiation, convection. Phase changes. Heat capacity. Relationship of temperature and internal energy for gases. Heat capacity in gas, adiabatic processes, C_p, C_v, Joule-Thomson effect. Gas cycle doing work. Heat engine. |
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Week 11 Holiday May 13th (May 14, 2021) |
Steam engine, internal combustion engine (Otto cycle). Stirling Beta motor. Second law of thermodynamics and Carnot efficiency. |
PHY121-FS2021-Week11-L2 (PDF, 5 MB) |
Combustion-engine-animated (GIF, 3 MB) Cycle-combustion-engine (PNG, 2 MB) |
Week 12 (May 20-21, 2021) |
Stirling Motors (type A, type B). Carnot efficiency, refrigeration cycles, COP, Peltier effect. Entropy as a thermodynamic value. Entropy as number of states. |
stirling-motor-2chambers (GIF, 116 KB) |
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Week 13 (May 27-28, 2021)
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Introduction to electromagnetic waves and optics. Electromagnetic waves and optics. Wave superposition, refraction, interference, diffraction. |
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Week 14 (June 3-4, 2021) | Electromagnetic waves and optics. Wave superposition, refraction, interference, diffraction. | PHY121-FS2021-Week14-L1andL2 (PDF, 19 MB) |