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GE1305 - Foundation Physics

Offering Academic Unit
Department of Physics
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
GE Area
Area 3: Science and Technology
Exclusive Courses:
Course Offering Term*:
Semester A 2023/24, Semester B 2023/24

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

Technology has become a very important part of our life and career and our graduates will face various choices in the use of technology and technology related decisions in their future career. In this course, a non-mathematical approach is used to teach students physics concepts and principles, which are of general relevance and enable the students to develop well-informed opinions and choices in their professional career and everyday life. 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.

The Assignment will be completed in Canvas and consists of multiple choice questions or short answer questions. The main purpose of the assignment is to train students. They are allowed to have several attempts in answering the questions.
 
Detailed Course Information

GE1305.pdf