GE1305 - Foundation Physics | ||||||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||||||
This course explores the fundamental principles of physics, focusing on the discipline's role in understanding the principles of physics and the laws of nature. Adopting a concept-focus approach introduces students to crucial physics concepts that enhance their understanding of the world and develop their well-informed opinions and choices in their professional careers and everyday lives. Students are also expected to learn in the course thinking skills of a physicist, which are evidence-based, critical and based on the framework of physical principles. The course will be run in a combination of lectures and tutorials with examples drawn from our everyday experience and important technologies. The students is assessed through an examination with conceptual questions (may require some simple calculations). The students can practice the use of concepts and principles to analyse physics phenomena or problems in tutorials. These tutorial questions are good training of the analytical skills used by physicists. | ||||||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 30% | ||||||||||||
Examination: 70% | ||||||||||||
Examination Duration: 2 hours | ||||||||||||
For a student to pass the course, at least 30% of the maximum mark for the examination must be obtained. | ||||||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||||||
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