General Physics (2) (Phys2180) Dr. Abeer Kamal Abd El-Aziz

Course outlines: Electrostatics, Electric charge Coulomb’s law. The Electric Field - Electric Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution. Electric Field Lines. Electric potential. Gauss’s law and its applications. Capacitance and dielectrics. Current and resistance and Direct current circuits. Part A: Electrostatics

Course outlines: The Nature of Light - Measurements of the Speed of Light. Fermat's principle, Reflection of Light Sign convention in mirrors and lenses. Forming images with a plan mirror, Spherical mirror. Ray tracing and the mirror equation. Refraction law (Snell’s Law ). Refraction through lenses - Lens Aberrations. Optical instruments: photographic camera – zoom lens – simple microscope – compound microscope – Spectrometer – Refractometer. Part B: Optics

Teaching pattern: Total Hours : 14 Lectures Credit hours: 4 hrs, 3(3,0,1) Lecture: 42 hr, Experimental Lab: 28 hr Assessment Assessment task (e.g., essay, test, group project, examination etc.) Week due Proportion of Final Assessment 1 1 st mid- Exam 5 th week of the course 10 % 2 2 nd mid-Exam 10 th week of the course 10% 3 Different activities (Reports, Home Works and Quizzes) Through the course 10 % 4 The final lab exam % 5 The final term exam %

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