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    GENERAL PHYSICS 1

    SECTIONS: STEM A,B,C


    TTh: 7:00AM-4:30PM

    Elaisa S De Paz, Teacher


    Week No. 1
    SECTIONS: 12 STEM A,B,C
    TTH: 7:00AM-4:30PM

    Elaisa S De Paz, Teacher


    • What is Physics?
    • What is your impression about this field?
    • What are the three laws of motion?
    • What is light?
    • What is matter?
    • How do you understand physical processes.
    • Quantum mechanics?
    • Physics is science.
    • Physics is fun.
    • It is an exciting adventure in the quest to find out
    patterns in nature and find means of understanding
    phenomena through careful deductions based on
    experimental verification.
    • In order to study physics, you should have a sense
    of discipline.
    Physical
    Quantities

    Physical quantities are a characteristic or property of an object that can


    be measured or calculated from other measurements.
    UNITS
    • Unit Units are standards for expressing and
    comparing the measurement of physical
    quantities. All units can be expressed as
    combinations of four fundamental units.
    • The four fundamental units we will use in this text
    are the meter (for length), the kilogram (for mass),
    the second (for time), and the ampere (for electric
    current). These units are part of the metric system,
    which uses powers of 10 to relate quantities over
    the vast ranges encountered in nature
    • Since 1960 the system of units used by scientists and engineers is the
    “metric system”, which is officially known as the “International
    System” or SI units (abbreviation for its French term, Système
    International).
    • To make sure that scientists from different parts of the world
    understand the same thing when referring to a measurement,
    standards have been defined for measurements of length, time, and
    mass.
    • Length – a measurement of the physical quantity of distance. The
    basic unit of length as identified by International System of Units (SI)
    is the meter.
    • Time – time is change, or the interval over which change occurs. The
    SI unit for time is the second, abbreviated s.
    • Mass – a fundamental property of matter. The basic unit of
    measurement for mass is the kilogram.
    Conversion of
    units
    It is often necessary to convert from one type of unit to another.
    For example, if you are reading a European cookbook, some
    quantities may be expressed in units of liters and you need to
    convert them to cups. Or, perhaps you are reading walking
    directions from one location to another and you are interested in
    how many miles you will be walking. In this case, you will need to
    convert units of feet to miles.
    Conversion of
    units
    Let us say that we want to convert 80 meters (m) to kilometers (km).
    SIGNIFICANT FIGURES AND
    SCIENTIFIC NOTATION

    • The number of significant figures refers to all digits to the left of the
    decimal point (except zeroes after the last non-zero digit) and all digits
    to the right of the decimal point (including all zeroes).
    • Scientific notation is also called the “powers-of-ten notation”. This
    allows one to write only the significant figures multiplied to 10 with
    the appropriate power. As a shorthand notation, we therefore use
    only one digit before the decimal point with the rest of the significant
    figures written after the decimal point
    PRACTICE # 02

    • How many significant figures does 0.368 have?


    • 13005
    • 21.0 x10^2
    • 890.0
    Rounding off numbers
    Rules of rounding off numbers:
    • Know which last digit to keep.
    • This last digit remains the same if the next digit is less than 5.
    • Increase this last digit if the next digit is 5 or more.

    540
    457
    Remember!
    • Read text
    • Attend class
    • Ask questions
    • Equals success in this class!

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